Yellow Tang, Blue Tang & Purple Tang

[Billy1205]

Hi can I have yellow, blue and purple tang in my 120 gallon reef tank? I'm will add them in the same time. Any thought?

[gji]

I had a yellow, blue and powder blue in a 180 with no problems. I bought all 3 small and added them together, after qt of course. Make them your last fish to add because of their aggressiveness to new addition

[Joke]

The blue and yellow should be fine, but purples can get aggressive

[shifty51008]

If your talking about a hippo tang then no, they need a bigger tank. And the yellow and purple may fight due to them being simlular shape

[toothybugs]

If you mean an Atlantic Blue, I think you're instigating murder I do not see that ending well - too small a space for a trio of similarly-shaped tangs with one known to be very aggressive.

[snorvich]

I would only have one tang in a tank that size.

[CStrickland]

I have a 120 also. I would only do the yellow one because the tank is only 4 feet long so they can't swim very far before they have to stop and turn around. Also it isn't very much rocks so they will be competing for spots to nibble at all day long, they get grouchy if they have to share.

[e048]

why not do some different kinds
yellow tang
powder blue or brown
bristle tooth tang

that'd be my recommendation on a trio of tangs, relatively different looking to where they shouldn't fight and since these guys dont get too big they should be okay if your tank is has lots of swimming room I would avoid any other water column fish with this trio, I would stick to rock/perching fish (blennies, gobies, firefish, basslets) and thats all

my tang beat the snot out of a coral beauty because they were both trying to nibble on the same algae patch

[nuxx]

Will probably be OK when they're small. As they age problems might arise.

Also the Blue will get to big in time.

[CStrickland]

Im not doing powder blues and powder browns because they significantly increase the ich drama, and can be delicate generally.
Here is a good reference for different tangs by people who really know what they are talking about
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=1946007

Isn't it funny that they went to the trouble of distinguishing some tangs as 120g and some as 125g? I thought on that for a while and I reckon it's cause of standard tank sizes. By adding 12", a 125 is a full 25% increase in swimming distance while they lap the tank all day. Tangs like swimming laps.

[Billy1205]

Thank you guys for the reply. Actually I'm from East Malaysia, I'm gonna import some from West Malaysia, I had show them my tank spec and the rock work. Will see what's the species they going to reckon. But for sure I will only to have 1 tang in my tank.

*I don't want to be a murderer by letting all the tang fight to death. =D

[Guy Fawkes]

I currently have a 100g display, 50g sump. I bought a yellow tang first, introduced a small hippo a couple months after, recently added a mata tang. So far so good.

[CStrickland]

Aren't matas like vlamingis that get like a foot and a half long?
Hippos need like 180

[jayk198030]

i have had a yellow, blue, and kole tang with two perculias in a 90g with no problems. All i can tell you-fish will be fish, they live together in peace or the bully wins.

[CStrickland]

Originally Posted by jayk198030

i have had a yellow, blue, and kole tang with two perculias in a 90g with no problems. All i can tell you-fish will be fish, they live together in peace or the bully wins.

Did they live their full 20-25 year life span "no problems" or did the bully win?
It's not really fish will be fish when we put them in a little box with bullies

[jayk198030]

i have had those three fish for about 7 yrs living together

[jason2459]

Originally Posted by CStrickland

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Hippos need like 180

I'd even advise against them in a 180 based on personal preference and experience so far. For personal preference I don't like fish that can be bigger then more then half the depth of the tank regardless of the type of fish. Those tangs should, under normal feeding and proper tank size, get to over a foot in length. A standard 180 has a 2' depth and to me will make the fish look out of place.

On personal experience I really really really really.... wish I didn't have one. It was a "gift" to "me" from my family that they refuse to let me get rid of. Its the one fish that's theirs. They got me a sailfin tang too that they let me return. Other then for personal preference reasons they can get aggressive as they get bigger. Especially if they feel cramped. I feed a LOT of food through out the day so it's not an under fed thing. I got my hippo tang under the size of a quarter. In under 2 years it got to over 6" in length and as it grew so did it's aggression. So far, along with always harassing other fish, it's killed my red velvet fairy wrasse and put a nice gash in my clown fish.

[nuxx]

Originally Posted by jason2459

I'd even advise against them in a 180

Ours is in a 470 and at 5", he's a big bully :/