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01-18-2008, 11:57 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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My LFS stops me from buying certain types of tangs because i have a reef setup. For example - they wont let me buy a regal or naso tang because apprently they get white spot (for some unknown reason) in reef tanks.
Is this true? If so is the a list anywhere of pirticular breeds of tangs that can go in a reef system?? _________ You will never know whats in my tank as i can only type 15 words  | 
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01-18-2008, 12:09 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Fish can easily bring in and "develop" ich in any type of system. Tell us more about your system? Maybe your LFS doesn't thing your tank is large enough to support a tang and that's why he's telling you such things? | 
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01-18-2008, 12:20 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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nah he's sold me tangs before so it cant be that - just certain breeds. My tank is 120 litres (not sure on the us gallons). I know tangs need lots of room to swim so id never buy a big one. but quite happily i've had a sailfin tang and a yellow mimic in my tank before now. | |
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01-18-2008, 12:27 PM
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| | 3reef Moderator
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Then what your lfs is saying makes no sense at all. I have kept all sorts of tangs in reef systems and currently have a powder blue and a hippo (regal) tang in my 180 gallon with no ich issues whatsoever. | |
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01-18-2008, 12:35 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lakewood, CA Age: 34
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I had a Naso Tang for 13 months, never got ich, just to big for the tank. | |
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01-18-2008, 12:36 PM
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#6 (permalink)
| | Stylophora
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
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really - well then i shall ignore him from now on - they had some baby regal's and they were so cute! think their all sold now tho.............  | |
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01-18-2008, 12:42 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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I have a Blonde Naso, Powder Blue, Powder brown and 2 Hippo tangs in a reef set up and the only one that has nipped at anything is the large Hippo when I was cutting back their food. I feed better now...  _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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01-18-2008, 12:54 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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I have a Yellow Tang and recently added a Naso to my 125 gallon reef tank with no problems. My Yellow Tang tried to play the aggressive territoriality figure, but that didn't work to well as my Naso just shrugged it off as it didn't bother him, and Yellow Tang has since stopped the behavior!
Other than the size some of these obtain, I would just eliminate adding the same kind or body style together! Feed them a varied diet and reduce stress for them along with extreme temperature variances and you should be fine! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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01-18-2008, 02:28 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
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120 litres is not that large of a tank. Could be that. 4 litres per gallon i believe.
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40g with 10g sump with 40 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 3x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, carpenter's flasher wrasse, 6line, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
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01-18-2008, 03:07 PM
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#10 (permalink)
| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Ooooh, well that changes things for sure. | |
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