Happy Tangs in 75g

[GavinRad]

I was happy to bring home a blue eye kole and scopas tangs yesterday.
Powder Blue wasn’t too excited to see them for an hour but they ended the night in the same rock sleeping

Any recommendations to keep the powder blue in good condition?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

More caves, more room to get away from each other, feed plenty.

Not sure what you are worried about specifically with the PB's condition.

 

[GavinRad]

I’ve heard that they’re more sensitive so I’m just curious if there’s anything I can dose the tank with to keep them more healthy. She’s got nothing wrong at the moment
I was considering adding a couple more rocks but I didn’t know if they wanted more free space in the tank

 

[LiamPM]

Any recommendations to keep the powder blue in good condition?

A bigger tank - Im sure ill be frowned upon for saying it but its a serious recommendation.

They do not take long to grow with regular feedings and that 75 will become cramped in no time. Im not advising it for the fishes sake either, although thats part of it. Large fish in small tnaks have various knock on effects and they arent worth the risk and drama they will give the keeper shortly after.

Otherwise, with three surgeons in a small tnak my best advise is offer Nori very regularly and by way of multiple clips to give less aggression when eating.

They arent any more sensitive than any other surgeonfish - They get labelled this way because they tend to have more issues than others but that comes down to the fact they are often put in tanks too small for them and being a large growing highly moving species, it stresses them.

 

[dedragon]

I would probably take all the fish out and medicate them (tangs always come in with external parasites), go fallow for awhile, plan a tank upgrade to around a 150 gallon or larger (3 tangs will most likely fight a lot and they will get bigger fast). It also looks like you may have gotten a couple frags so probably 2 more ai primes to get better light coverage

 

[GavinRad]

I was going to grab them another clip just in case . They seem to eat together good at the moment but I will probably get another anyways.

I plan to upgrade to a 180-220 when I get out of my apartment and that’s in 8ish months.

 

[polyppal]

keep us posted! If they aren’t QTd and don’t end up with disease or going to war, go buy a lottery ticket

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Tank looks new and appears to have hob equipment and no skimmer. IMHO I would have just lived w the pbt great fish and kept it at optimal conditions. Good luck w the trio. I see an upgrade in the future.

 

[GavinRad]

Tank looks new and appears to have hob equipment and no skimmer. IMHO I would have just lived w the pbt great fish and kept it at optimal conditions. Good luck w the trio. I see an upgrade in the future.

Yessir, I am getting a skimmer this week or next. I definitely had an upgrade planned when buying this livestock to keep them content.

 

[dedragon]

going forward you might want to take the fish out and medicate them for two reasons. First they could get parasites bacterial infection, etc or they could be good at fighting the infection off, but when you add another fish down the line, the new fish is at risk of being more susceptible to whatever was in the tank. Fish disease/parasite prevention are really crucial to both immediate and long term health of a reef tank. Also if you plan an upgrade for 8 months away you could get away without one for that period of time, hob protein skimmers are more trouble than they are worth imo. There are also hob refugiums that can house tunze protein skimmers (great skimmer esp for the size)

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Or just get the skimmer rated for the upgrade and raise via rack an out right in the DT alla weird Science. Lol

 

[Tamberav]

Feed well..

A powder blue can stress and get sick easily. So depending if your new fish brought in hidden disease... and if they stress out over the next 8 months...

I only keep one tang in my 80. Tried two added at same time and QT together but in the long run it did not work for me. They mature and don't always stay friends or happy.

 

[GavinRad]

I make sure I don't overfeed to avoid issues without the skimmer. I would obviously prefer to avoid a hob skimmer till i can get a SUMP setup with the skimmer and all in the 180 or 220 gal.

I don't plan to add any more fish in this particular tank.

 

[Tamberav]

I make sure I don't overfeed to avoid issues without the skimmer. I would obviously prefer to avoid a hob skimmer till i can get a SUMP setup with the skimmer and all in the 180 or 220 gal.

I don't plan to add any more fish in this particular tank.

You need to feed them enough to keep them fat and it helps from fighting. Don't limit food as a way to control algae. Increase your export to control algae but always feed fish well to keep them well nourished.

 

[GavinRad]

Feed well..

A powder blue can stress and get sick easily. So depending if your new fish brought in hidden disease... and if they stress out over the next 8 months...

I only keep one tang in my 80. Tried two added at same time and QT together but in the long run it did not work for me. They mature and don't always stay friends or happy.

Going to shop for a second clip for the seaweed to keep them content with food
i am monitoring them for sure and the powder blue will be the first to go if any big issues arise or fighting comes back.
So far so good. I feed them daily, they never run out basically. they graze on it all day.

 

[GavinRad]

How long would you advise i could run no skimmer?

 

[davidcalgary29]

How long would you advise i could run no skimmer?

Perhaps a week. They eat -- and poop -- a ton. My yellow tang started to show signs of septicemia before I got the message and upgraded my skimmer and started to do twice-weekly water changes.

 

[dedragon]

Its gonna be dependent on a lot of things, tanks have been run perfectly fine with no protein skimmer for years. A protein skimmer is not a necessary piece of equipment most of the time, but does help with maintenance and keeping the water oxygenated

 

[davidcalgary29]

Well, perhaps it would work with a bare-bottom tank and frequent water changes. Tangs are just so sensitive to poor water quality, though, that it seems to me that it would be too great of a risk in a new tank.

 

[GavinRad]

Yeah I will probably grab a tunze hob skimmer