|
|
|
08/18/2012, 06:29 PM
|
#1 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Guadalajara, (central west Mexico)
Posts: 848
|
Most likely to bully others: Purple or Powder Blue Tang?
I'm having somewhat of an argument with a fellow reefer. A friend of ours has a very large tank (300g), which has a variety of fish including 6 line wrasse, blue girdled angel, flameback angel, royal gramma, rabbitfish, blue damsel, and a heniochus butterfly. He wants to add a tang, either purple or powder blue. He will go with whatever is less likely to give him aggression issues down the line, for that reason he's adding the tang last. What advice would you give? Purple or Powder Blue? Purple tangs tend to be nastier, though powder blue gets larger. What do you think?
|
|
|
|
08/18/2012, 06:36 PM
|
#2 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Fresno,Ca.
Posts: 2,545
|
I have both and my PBT is by far the more aggressive of the two... and he is bigger too.
__________________
600g (96x36x46) FOWLR |
|
|
|
|
08/18/2012, 06:43 PM
|
#3 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 303
|
I have 3 tangs and i think that each fish has a different personality, some are more aggressive than some. even after months and in one case a year they will still fight eachother or some clowns.
__________________
Always looking to move foward, yup yup Current Tank Info: 120gal DT, 30gal sump. |
|
|
|
|
08/18/2012, 06:47 PM
|
#4 |
|
SALTWATER since '73
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Katonah, NY/ San Fernando Ca./ Sea Isle City NJ
Posts: 6,210
|
I have 2 purples, with 8 other tangs...no problems
Powder Blues were more aggressive
__________________
______________________________________ Jan. '11 TOTM Manhattan Reefs Current Tank Info: 500g & 200g acrylic DTs/2 separate reef systems |
|
|
|
|
08/18/2012, 07:14 PM
|
#5 | |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Guadalajara, (central west Mexico)
Posts: 848
|
Quote:
That's what I thought as well, just by size alone. |
|
|
|
|
|
08/18/2012, 07:35 PM
|
#6 |
|
Moved On
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 28
|
I have both and my purple rules the roost
|
|
|
|
|
08/18/2012, 07:56 PM
|
#7 |
|
Registered Member
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 1,186
|
My PBT is far more aggressive than the purple.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
__________________
Steve ---------------------------------- Current Tank Info: 2 separate 250G bowfront rimless ELOS tanks plumbed to 260G sump, 220G refugium, 220G frag, BK DeLuxe 300, 400W MH x4, closed loops, 3/4hp chiller x2, Phos reactor, Kalk reactor, Charcoal reactor, Ca reactor, 60G surge tanks, & a huge elec bill |
|
|
|
|
08/31/2012, 04:14 PM
|
#8 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: DC Vicinity
Posts: 1,813
|
Typically, the pbt is the more aggressive of the two, but it depends on the individual fish. Your friend shouldn't have problems in the 300. He probably could add both if he put them in at the same time.
__________________
Frank Current Tank Info: 110 Oceanic RR w/35 gal sump and SRO XP2000 int |
|
|
|
|
08/31/2012, 08:14 PM
|
#9 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 23
|
Every Tang I have ever had has been a problem.
|
|
|
|
|
09/01/2012, 06:57 AM
|
#10 | |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 1,186
|
Quote:
__________________
Steve ---------------------------------- Current Tank Info: 2 separate 250G bowfront rimless ELOS tanks plumbed to 260G sump, 220G refugium, 220G frag, BK DeLuxe 300, 400W MH x4, closed loops, 3/4hp chiller x2, Phos reactor, Kalk reactor, Charcoal reactor, Ca reactor, 60G surge tanks, & a huge elec bill |
|
|
|
|
|
09/02/2012, 02:54 PM
|
#11 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Guadalajara, (central west Mexico)
Posts: 848
|
this guy doesn't like problems, so after he heard us debating about it, he ended up deciding he prefered a Blue Tang, which he had initially discarded because he didn't want people making "that's the fish in Nemo" comments, but prefered it over possible issues.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
