Adding more Tangs to 6 Foot Tank

[themanofmeat]

Hi,

I have a 6 foot Red Sea Reefer 750 G3 and after cycling for a few months have now added fish, but still looking fairly empty!

I'm looking at adding tangs/larger species but conscious of aggression.

I currently have a 4 inch wild caught yellow tang I didn't want to miss out on who is now king of the tank, so wanted thoughts on which tangs would be least likely to start a war.

Have in mind Regal which I imagine is fine, possibly a bristletooth and ideally 1/2 more tangs?

Current stock list:

Yellow Tang
2 x Common Clownfish
2 x Banggai Cardinalfish
4 x Resplendent Anthias
1 x Royal Gramma
1 x Cleaner Shrimp
Various Snails and CUC

Any other nice 3-4 inch species recommendations are welcome too, thinking fox face, angels etc that are reef safe.

 

[zheka757]

Regal, naso, or blonde naso. Purple tang. But my first thought looking into you tank was ,corals!

 

[themanofmeat]

Regal, naso, or blonde naso. Purple tang. But my first thought looking into you tank was ,corals!

Had a bit of an issue with the sand calcifying, been hard to get the dosing balance right at the minute, but planning on some easier corals to start whilst I work it out. Been going through 160ml of zlements part 1 and 2 each day via trident and still having drops in Kh and Ca so probably moving to individual dosing to get to a good baseline before loading up.

 

[Reefering1]

Where did you get a 4" wild yellow tang? Can we see a close up picture?

 

[themanofmeat]

Where did you get a 4" wild yellow tang? Can we see a close up picture?

iREEF in Rochdale Manchester, was from a tank closure they traded into the shop.

 

[exnisstech]

I have two wild yellows, one is in a 4ft 100g with a two spot bristletooth and a couple of other fish. The other is in a 84x30x25" tank with 3 biota yellows, a fairly large purple, naso, and vlamingii amd a convict and hippo along with some other fish and they get along great. I did move out of a 72x24x24" tank because I felt the larger tangs were getting a little cramped.

 

[cwerner]

The more distantly related your Tangs species, the higher the odds of success when introducing them to each other. I think your plan of a Bristletooth family tang is a good one since Yellow and Bristletooth's are different genera. A powder blue or brown might also be a good choice.