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Topic: Aggressive yellow tang
Posted By: Reefboy4life
Subject: Aggressive yellow tang
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 11:06pm
So I set up a 90 gallon cube recently and all I have is one 3 inch yellow tang and two clown fish, I added 2 yellow tangs at the same time hoping they would play nice, anyway the smaller yellow tang was stabed so I moved him to another tank so it's just the 3 inch tang and two clowns in there. He seems to be ok with the clowns but I want to add more fish and am wondering what would be a good tank mate for him? I would like to add one more tang (not yellow) maybe a hippo tang but am worried I will have the same results, thoughts?

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90 gallon mixed reef



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Posted By: BobC63
Date Posted: July 25 2015 at 11:17pm

Any of the 'oval' shaped tangs (Hippo / Naso / Vlamingi / etc) should be OK.

Avoid another 'round' tang like (another) Yellow, Scopas, Sailfin, etc.



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- My Current Tank: 50g Starfire Cube Reef


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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: July 26 2015 at 12:28am
I agree with Bob and yet I've had success with putting two like Tangs together in groups or simple pairs.

Adding new fish, Fish Training and the Miracle of Garlic Oil: http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34014" rel="nofollow - http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=34014

The Reefkeeping Tip copied above explains how two things make all the difference:
1) training - performed by the hobbyist; and 
2) the environment - the perception of there being sufficient food growing in the aquarium, (supplemental feeding by the hobbyist is often insufficient). I included a story there about two Tangs, a Yellow and a Purple (both Zebrasoma species with the same body shape and close in size) that became close buddies, but it took training and patience. There were a couple weeks of watching them beat each other up with one of them seeming to be the apparent loser. Ouch In the end, I learned something more of fish mentality and behavior. 
Wink Years before this I had a Tomato Clownfish pair where before the pairing the female had almost ripped the jaw off of the male. He healed up and about 8 months later the two became the parents of my first baby clownfish. 

My opinion is that we can learn a lot from fish in how they overcome differences, practice forgiveness, make friends and even become partners.

Aloha,
Mark  Hug



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