I dont have pictures of my tangs in my tank.

In my tank i have
- 1 Kole Tang
- 1 Yellow Tang
- and 3 Hippo Blue Tangs (They are all very happy tang Police :) )

My setup is a 6 foot long Deep tank @ about 165 Gallon Display and 90 Gallon sump. Everyone is very happy. Ill try and snap some pictures.

But in the meantime here is a great yellow tang picture i took Diving a Few Weeks ago off the Big Island in Kona.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...m/IMG_2535.jpg
Dont have a stobe yet, so my colors are washed out.

I went from having 7 tangs in my set up to now only having these two,

My Sohal tang aka Scar face
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...n/DSC_1343.jpg

My Regal tang aka Dori
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...n/DSC_1825.jpg

I really miss my blonde naso (who mysteriously disappeared) and my clown tang who died in the M.V. outbreak. I think if I were to add another it would be one of those or a cheveron tang.

Thanks for all the wonderful pics! I have to live vicariously through all of you. I am new and have a 44 gallon. The LFS told me it was room enough for the hippo and yellow tang I wanted. After much research I discovered they are not the smartest people at my LFS. :cry: So until I upgrade, Thank you for the pics!

Here are mine
got them both when they were about the size of a loony
http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/P2160032.jpg
http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...21277/fish.jpg

what is the smallest tang you can get?

I have seen fish stores sell hippo tangs that are the size of a loonie. They don't stay that small for long though!!

Tangs in general will grow pretty big. I don't know what the smallest species is though.. Perhaps one of the mimic tangs?

Thank-you for doing research and realizing tangs need a big tank to be happy in.

Kole tangs, Scopas tangs and yellow tangs are the smaller type of tangs and you can find them loonie sized in the store however ones that small have about a 30% chance of living for more then a few weeks. Keep in mind that if you get a small one that lives, within 3-4 months you will need a minimum of a 90g tank for them to live happily in.

Weell i dont want to risk a life o i'll stay away

I got this purple tang a few years ago from a friend who was tearing down his tank. The best thing about it: it eats bubble algae!

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...Picture643.jpg

That bubble algae must be like Popeye's spinich! (Makes him 4lbs strong!) That's a good looking fish. I would love to add one like that, but I'm positive that my Atlantic Blue would take exception. Same shape...same colour...bad recipe.

Nice pavona back there. I have not seen many others who have a big colony like that.

i think this is one of my favorite photo's ever

It really likes bubble algae, pink cotton candy algae and some sort of red wiry hair algae. It also like nori, Ocean Nutrition pellets, mysis, mussel and clam meat... basically anything I throw in there. I've even seen it eat new bryopsis growth.

Unfortunately it will also pick at open brains a bit so I have to keep them in another tank. It also doesnt get along with my snowflake eel very well. It freaks out a bit every time it comes out to feed. But they've been living together for several years so I guess they're not too bad.

Thanx, My wife took that one and she is very proud of it.

So if I were too get a scopas tang how big should the tank be???

I don't have one, but all the research I did says no smaller than 75-80 gallons.

As you can clearly see we have answered your question, the minimum tank size for a scopas would be a 90g, your 34g will not work as a proper house for a tang. You yourself said that you didn't want to risk a life but yet you are asking again about tangs when you've already got the answer. Just because you might not like the answer doesn't mean it's going to change when you keep asking the same question.

Maybe because someone else did it you hope we'll say it's ok and that's why you keep asking, however just because someone else did it doesn't mean it's right. Most of us on here care about our fish and we want what is best for them, and for keeping a tang you really need a minimum of a 90g tank, and honestly with tangs as they get bigger a 180g or larger tank is better for them to live in.

Anyway this thread is for pictures of tangs if you'd like to start a tang discussion you could start a new thread in the Marine fish section. So for now :focus:

Smallest tang is probably a Kole, about 6".

Wow..

Oh snap you nailed that one sharp. How many attempts did that take!?

Incredible fish man.

Only 16 takes. :lol:

I hate you guys
I hate you guys
I hate you guys
:cry::cry::cry:

Seriously beautiful Tangs really impressed. :biggrin:

as someone who has a little Red Sea Max I would never have one of these fish,
But I do have a couple of clowns, a McCoskers wrasse, beautiful Coral beauty and a funny little royal gramma who has found caves I didn't know exisited.

One day I want tanks like laurie !!

:redface: Thanks :biggrin:

I had mentioned earlier how much I missed my old clown tang and when I saw a small one at Marine Aquaria, that they had for a few weeks, and was doing well and eating mysis, I couldn't pass him up. My Sohal did give him a bit of a hard time the 1st two days he was in there, but now they get along well with each other :mrgreen:

My new clown tang
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...n/DSC_0029.jpg

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...p/DSC_0005.jpg

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...20100609_2.jpg

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...20100609_1.jpg

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...20100609_1.jpg

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...20100609_1.jpg

And here I thought I was the only one who liked playing with fire! :biggrin: Beautiful clown you got there and ya, it is strange my Clown and Sohal seem to not mind each others company at all. They [seem to] get along much better than my Purple and Yellow tangs and those two have been together for much longer.

And nice tangs Tony! I remember when your Lavender and lieutenant tang where going through some tough times. Glad to see that's all behind them now!

Oh Tony that lieutenant and lavender are gorgeous! (not knocking your Sailfin, its gorgeous too!) I just have a thing for lieutenant in particular, and love the dark lavender, and cant remember anybody else's tangs from the previous pages but they were all beautiful! haha.

Awesome tangs everyone! Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

Chris

(Wish I still had some... used to have a beautiful 7" Orange shoulder who went from beige to yellow as it got older but somehow he got stuck to the intake of my old SEIO powerhead and died :( )

My Photo skills are lacking but these are my 2 tangs

Sailfin about 2-3 inches

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/v...i/DSCN3449.jpg

Blue Tang Size of a quarter

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/v...i/DSCN3455.jpg

My Sohal is the exception to the norm, since I've had him he has been fairly non-aggressive. I had him with a different clown tang before and they never bothered one another, so even though it had been almost a year since the sohal and my old clown tang lived together, I just had to try again. Thankfully it all worked out. I also agree I find yellow and purple tangs far more aggressive, not as bad as a certain king angel of mine, but close. I really played with fire a couple of months ago when a friend of mine wanted his large Koran angel to live with my king (his tank was to small) needless to say after a half an hour of hell the koran went to my other friends house.