What Tang do you love the most!

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Very nice ... and aptly named!
 
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Big convict fan as well. Not an easy fish to get to a sustainably healthy weight.
Yea everyone local said they are almost impossible to keep alive.
Thats why I got one lol!
It was eating and very skinny when I got it.
Skinny and right now.
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Yeah, you don’t ever see a plump convict at retail and almost never in folks tanks. I’ve had a small one for about a year and it’s been a real battle. It eats almost non stop but remains on the thin side .... though not as thin.
 

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Yeah, you don’t ever see a plump convict at retail and almost never in folks tanks. I’ve had a small one for about a year and it’s been a real battle. It eats almost non stop but remains on the thin side .... though not as thin.
Mine is a pig and I feed 3-4 times a day at a 2+ cube amount per. It never stops picking at the rocks.
It had a small cut on one side the other day and now you cant tell it was ever there. Must have scraped a coral as I noticed a couple of broken tips.
I feed mostly lrs reef frenzy now with some mysis, herbivore cube,
and hikari pellets.
Every once in awhile some brine.
Also freezed dried mysis soaked in selcon once a week.
With how active they are I doubt you could over feed them lol.
 

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Outa all the 6 or 7 different types of tangs ive owned.. the one with the moat personality has always been yellow eye kole tangs.
 

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Yea everyone local said they are almost impossible to keep alive.
Thats why I got one lol!
It was eating and very skinny when I got it.
Skinny and right now.
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My convict was the last addition. Its also the pita. He bullys my yellow tang. I have 9 acanthurus tangs but only the 1 zebrasoma. At 5inch long, he is at least 3/4 inch thick.
 

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I don’t think I have a favorite, like them all for different reasons.

In my 180 I have a few , an Achilles,
Dusemeri , gem, koi, purple, dejardini, sailfin, yellow, Hawaiian naso and a blue eyed tang.

Believe it or not, the most aggressive is the naso, who likes to chase my pair of bellus and Watanabei angels around.

With those ten 10 tangs, I have about a dozen angels and 10 or so wrasses as well. The only one who gives anyone trouble is the naso, supposedly a placid fish, go figure.

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I love Lavender tangs. I know a lot of people think they are just another grey/brown fish, but they really are very attractive. Great algae eaters with out the attitude some of the others have.

*stolen off google, don't have any pics of my old one. *

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You are absolutely correct. Gorgeous fish. When I lived in Kona Hawaii I used to see guys pulling these out of the ocean on fishing line all the time. If they weren't so dang big I would have asked to take one for my tank :)
 

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You are absolutely correct. Gorgeous fish. When I lived in Kona Hawaii I used to see guys pulling these out of the ocean on fishing line all the time. If they weren't so dang big I would have asked to take one for my tank :)
Very cool. The good thing about these is that they are caught at a relative small size, most common size i see is around the 3in mark and they tend to be a slow grower.
 
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