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Forgot to press reply. What’s a Hepatus tang?Tomini
Hepatus
convict
gem (pricey thoigh)
lavender
Also known as a regal tang (Dory)Forgot to press reply. What’s a Hepatus tang?
the one in the pic with my yellowI have heard of them but never actually seen one. Any pictures?
if it helps, yellow tang prices are coming down - they've been about $599 here for a good while (since Hawaii ban - and for wild caught 'large' ones still that range), so I understand, and $149-$199 is still pricey for tiny fish, but there are at least tiny ones coming available under $200 locally and online.Yellow Tangs are too expensive around here. Don’t know if they are just expensive here or all over.
yes I have a regal blue tang grown from thumbnail.Would a baby Regal tang be fine? Has anyone had experience with baby tangs?
mine is the most "passive" fish in the tank, well the other fish arent aggressive either, I have a blueeyed tang and a foxface lo and a lionfish, the purple, blue-eye and foxface love to hang out together and are very social with each otherHow are purple tangs personality wise?
The baby regals at my lfs are about half an inch. They did have 5 inch ones for 89 but they are always quickly sold before I can get my hands on it.yes I have a regal blue tang grown from thumbnail.
*IF* you go that small, recommend keeping in hang on side acclimation box so you can ensure adequate food. Mine could eat the Reef Nutrition R.O.E. fridge eggs at that size. When we got it thicker (came SO thin!) and bit longer, we let it out likely to soon because it fit thru sump overflow slits... It went back into box after we got it out of overflow, clown jumped into acclimation with it for a while. Once it was stealing food from clown, we let baby tang out again. Its doing super awesome - its shoulder blue is now always there and just today its belly seems a touch lighter so I think another color morph is about to start.
I saved a LOT of money going that small, but I don't know it was worth it. I'd much rather have gotten a bigger one and paid more.
The baby regals at my lfs are about half an inch. They did have 5 inch ones for 89 but they are always quickly sold before I can get my hands on it.
+1 vote likely okay, but like every tang acclimation, recommend use magnetized acclimation box to move into all territories before releasing (The Shu Octo Aquatics is my most recent & favorite!). Once all goes well in a day (or week, or couple weeks) then have mirror handy upon release of new fish from acclimation box where it has been doing 'meet & greet' - if all goes well - happy dance! If only minor mirror distraction needed, still happy dance. If there was still body slamming of acclimation box by existing fish not accepting new fish, then don't yet open the acclimation box and release new fish.Would a purple tang and blue tang fight? Or would they be fine due to their appearance differences?
YTs are more expensive than a purple tang, even the captive bred ones are hard to get so yes, they are more expensive than they used to be. The reason for that is the Hawaiian ban on exporting fish (And coral?).Yellow Tangs are too expensive around here. Don’t know if they are just expensive here or all over.