Best way to acclimate 5 tangs

[sky414]

I have a 40 gallon tall as an qt and a 8’x3’x2’ dt. The last fish to be added are my tang gang:
1. Blue hippo
2. Sailfin
3 Orange shoulder
4. Blonde naso
5. Tomini or whitetail

I want to prophylacticly put them in copper then prazi. I want all small ones (2-3 inches). What is the best way to add them? All 5 at once? 2, 2, then 1? Any specific order of adding different types of tangs, if not all at once?

 

[MarineandReef Jaron]

If it were me, Practicality would be my chief concern. Which tangs are available to you at the time. If you add all the tangs within 3 months and they are all small I don't think you will have problems. I have 6 tangs at home and added them over 6 months. They have been together for over 3 years now.

If you have the luxury of picking the order I would add the Orange Shoulder last as this will likely be the most aggressive IMO. That being said, none of these are super aggressive tangs so I would just add what I could find.

 

[sky414]

If it were me, Practicality would be my chief concern. Which tangs are available to you at the time. If you add all the tangs within 3 months and they are all small I don't think you will have problems. I have 6 tangs at home and added them over 6 months. They have been together for over 3 years now.

If you have the luxury of picking the order I would add the Orange Shoulder last as this will likely be the most aggressive IMO. That being said, none of these are super aggressive tangs so I would just add what I could find.

So if I have all five available now, should I get them all at once?

 

[MarineandReef Jaron]

So if I have all five available now, should I get them all at once?

My biggest concern would be keeping that many tangs in a 40 gallon QT for a month. That is a high bioload for a 40 gallon so you would really need to be on top of water changes. It would be much easier if you split the QT up to do 2-3 fish at a time. Then again I have seen tangs the size of a quarter. If they are that big I would do them all at once but if they are 3-4in fish or even 6in fish that would be a lot IMO

 

[sky414]

I want them as small as possible. So if they are 2 inches or less, I can do all five together?

I’m not overly concerned about the bio load because I do something with the fish every couple of days. I am fine with water changes. I’m concerned with aggression. If small fish can stay in there for a month, without aggression, it should be fine. If I break them up, I’m thinking the blue hippo, the sailfin, and the naso first, then the orange shoulder and the whitetail.

 

[MarineandReef Jaron]

I would not be concerned about aggression. Aggression takes time to develop and with 5 fish at once the aggression will be spread out.