Help with 2 Acans

[BristleWormHater]

No. I just walked him over to my neighbor who has a 4000 gallon tank. So he now has plenty of room to swim horizontally and will grow to the mandatory 11 inches. Matter of fact he swam horizontally 17 times the minute we dropped him in and I think he grew an extra inch in 5 minutes. Super cool!

You are not special, people smarter than both of us determined that this tang needs at least a 100 gallon. That's not completely due to size but swimming behavior and patterns as well.
Just give it up already.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Op , I'm sorry for coming across as the tang police. I never wanted to be that guy. I just want the best for you and the fish. I hope what you said wasn't a joke and he is in a bigger tank.

 

[BristleWormHater]

If he has tang issues or coral issues related to the tang, and I have advice worth giving, then I’ll discuss the tang.

I don’t know the op or their long term plans, they could have a 300G in the basement. Who knows. Asked acan questions and I feel like I can help guide

Fair

 

[VintageReefer]

The top left acan is displaying them in these pics.
But they all do it usually in the evenings

 

[adespain81]

The top left acan is displaying them in these pics.
But they all do it usually in the evenings

Ok yes I have seen them extend. Bun not ad far as the one in your pics.

 

[vetteguy53081]

These 2 guys don't looks so well. Any ideas of what I can/should do?

Assure the phosphate level is not elevated, moderate light and water flow and feed mysis shrimp at least 2x a week

 

[VintageReefer]

Ok yes I have seen them extend. Bun not ad far as the one in your pics.

Feed them when they do this. Not every time. But like once every 2-3 days

 

[adespain81]

Feed them when they do this. Not every time. But like once every 2-3 days

Ok perfect. This is a huge help, hoping and I can get these two healthy and happy.

 

[VintageReefer]

Ok perfect. This is a huge help, hoping and I can get these two healthy and happy.

Mysis, good pellet or flake, they will eat it. Powder based food is ok for smaller baby polyps

 

[adespain81]

Mysis, good pellet or flake, they will eat it. Powder based food is ok for smaller baby polyps

I have only been using Reef roids to spot feed. But i do feed the tank with mysis and pellets daily (rotation, not at the same time of course).

 

[adespain81]

Assure the phosphate level is not elevated, moderate light and water flow and feed mysis shrimp at least 2x a week

Phosphate is .25 (as of yesterday)
Is that ok or too high?

 

[VintageReefer]

I have only been using Reef roids to spot feed. But i do feed the tank with mysis and pellets daily (rotation, not at the same time of course).

The acans will learn to open at feeding time. When you feed your fish mysis take some mysis juice and squirt it slowly over the acans. If they open in a few min, give them a couple pieces. They will grab it in front of you and wrap around it and pull it in

If it’s pellet day and you notice them open, give them some pellets.

Reef roids is good too. Vary it up with all three

 

[VintageReefer]

Phosphate is .25 (as of yesterday)
Is that ok or too high?

It’s a little high. Depends who you ask. I’ve been .4-.5 for the last month. Working on lowering it. Currently .2
My tank is very successful. I don’t think the exact number is as important as stability.

 

[adespain81]

The acans will learn to open at feeding time. When you feed your fish mysis take some mysis juice and squirt it slowly over the acans. If they open in a few min, give them a couple pieces. They will grab it in front of you and wrap around it and pull it in

If it’s pellet day and you notice them open, give them some pellets.

Reef roids is good too. Vary it up with all three

Awesome. I will try this pattern. Thank you.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Phosphate is .25 (as of yesterday)
Is that ok or too high?

High. You want range of .06 - .1
Do not chase numbers and Reef roids is often a culprit in raising phos levels, reason I feed mysis shrimp. Im at .077 phos and get this result

 

[adespain81]

High. You want range of .06 - .1
Do not chase numbers and Reef roids is often a culprit in raising phos levels, reason I feed mysis shrimp. Im at .077 phos and get this result

dang, that's a nice tank!!

 

[Treehrtsme]

No. I just walked him over to my neighbor who has a 4000 gallon tank. So he now has plenty of room to swim horizontally and will grow to the mandatory 11 inches. Matter of fact he swam horizontally 17 times the minute we dropped him in and I think he grew an extra inch in 5 minutes. Super cool!

Come on man this is common knowledge it's on every web page. You gotta lie and see you got a 125 that he is going to be in at some point or is not in for some reason. Or say you had planned to expand but there was a problem with your new setup and so you're currently looking to find him a new home. Plenty of new members make mistakes and burn a lot of money in the process thinking that some things will work out and websites and people just over exaggerate what you need. I've done it myself, but more to the extent of keeping a fish that is recommended in a 150 in a 55 with low bio load. Sometimes that's okay cuz not all fish come in the stores at full adult size, but the first thing that stuck out in that picture to anyone was memories of keeping a beta or goldfish in a one gallon bowl and wondering why they kept dying as a kid. Some fish are hardier than others and when I first started salt water I assumed that it was okay to keep a small valentini in a five gallon cuz they don't swim around a ton and the last one I had lived for almost a year and probably just died of I missed water change or something. Had a bit of a denial phase So eventually I just started keeping extra tanks on hand, bigger ones too so in the case of an impulse buy gone wrong it can be remedied.

 

[Treehrtsme]

Fair

Well like I said that kind of gave me the visual of a big goldfish in a small bowl. First picture I couldn't even really see the acans just a nice looking Tang in a fancy goldfish bowl. Even temporarily I would imagine keeping a Tang at that size in a BioCube would be detrimental to its long-term or potentially short-term health.

 

[BristleWormHater]

Well like I said that kind of gave me the visual of a big goldfish in a small bowl. First picture I couldn't even really see the acans just a nice looking Tang in a fancy goldfish bowl. Even temporarily I would imagine keeping a Tang at that size in a BioCube would be detrimental to its long-term or potentially short-term health.

Why did you quote me?

 

[Northern Flicker]

Oh thanks. I thought this thread was about assistance with my Acans. Thanks for chiming in on something irrelevant. Tangs are fine in 32 gal biocube. They do quite well actually. But thanks anyway.

This is pathetic. Please sell the tang to someone who actually cares about it.

Like keeping a horse in it's stable for it's whole life. Just sad.