I have a tank I maintain at a dentist's office. It's gone through some rough times, it was beautifully stocked until the dentist decided to add fish and not tell me...ich and/or velvet wiped out the whole tank. That was a 6" Blue Tang, 4" Yellow Tang, and big angel, some clowns, and a few other misc fish. It was a tragedy, they were 15+ year old fish. After a lengthy fallow period, I restocked it with fish from my tank and a friends' tank but it's been a few years they want more fish.
I found a local hobbyist selling his RSR170 full setup and am taking the opportunity to ditch my current 120 sumpless setup at home...it was never really a good setup, and there's a bar clamp on the tank since day 1 when I had a stand issue and the seam started failing, that was 10+ years ago.
The net end goal is to put all the fish into one tank - the dentist's office.
My tank has just these:
The Doc's tank has:
The new tank I'm grabbing has:
My plan is to move my 2 fish to a 40B at my workshop, grab the new tank, rip clean it, and set it up at home (that's this weekend)
The doc's tank has too much LR, it's hard to keep, and aesthetically it looks crowded with rock. So I was planning on revamping it. So I will rip clean this tank (take all rock out and scrub/dunk, blast the sand clean, power clean the sump, re-set it back up). New rock scape means all territories are erased so I figure this is the time, if there was one, to combine fish families.
The question is, of course, the Yellows. I've heard @vetteguy53081 is knowledgeable on this subject so maybe he'll chime in. I was planning on incorporating either an egg crate barrier, or I would laser cut a divider sheet (with holes for smaller fish to get through, but not the tangs). Then I would put one Yellow on either side.
I can't say either Yellow is aggressive. Mine eats out of my hand, the one in the doc's tank is a bit skittish. The Scopas will have to go with oe of the tangs, I'm guessing pair him with the smaller yellow?
Then, how long do I keep them apart?
Or is this just a bad idea? I have a week or so to figure this out.
TIA
Bud
I found a local hobbyist selling his RSR170 full setup and am taking the opportunity to ditch my current 120 sumpless setup at home...it was never really a good setup, and there's a bar clamp on the tank since day 1 when I had a stand issue and the seam started failing, that was 10+ years ago.
The net end goal is to put all the fish into one tank - the dentist's office.
My tank has just these:
Yellow Tang (4" diameter body)
4" Flameback Angel.
The Doc's tank has:
Yellow Tang (2-3" body)
PJ Cardinal
Pink Skunk Clown
Diamond Watchman Goby
The new tank I'm grabbing has:
Royal Gramma
designer clownfish pair (blizzard and black misbar)
Longnose Hawkfish
Tailspot Blenny
Melanarus Wrasse
small Scopas Tang (2" maybe)
My plan is to move my 2 fish to a 40B at my workshop, grab the new tank, rip clean it, and set it up at home (that's this weekend)
The doc's tank has too much LR, it's hard to keep, and aesthetically it looks crowded with rock. So I was planning on revamping it. So I will rip clean this tank (take all rock out and scrub/dunk, blast the sand clean, power clean the sump, re-set it back up). New rock scape means all territories are erased so I figure this is the time, if there was one, to combine fish families.
The question is, of course, the Yellows. I've heard @vetteguy53081 is knowledgeable on this subject so maybe he'll chime in. I was planning on incorporating either an egg crate barrier, or I would laser cut a divider sheet (with holes for smaller fish to get through, but not the tangs). Then I would put one Yellow on either side.
I can't say either Yellow is aggressive. Mine eats out of my hand, the one in the doc's tank is a bit skittish. The Scopas will have to go with oe of the tangs, I'm guessing pair him with the smaller yellow?
Then, how long do I keep them apart?
Or is this just a bad idea? I have a week or so to figure this out.
TIA
Bud