[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Alan Joseph

We know him well enough not to take him seriously. But perhaps there is a point here, even if it came from him just wanting to "stir" the pot a bit:
Aj :?

Hmm you asume to much my young friend seriously though.. in my case I have what I would call a Nano or mini (25 gal size what it is called isn't to important,) but it is a secondary "Show Tank" being that you can see it along with my main tank. the water volume in my system is just over 150 gal. So if I refrase this question a little and ask "is there a Tang that I could get and keep in the 25 gal untill it grew to big for that one... then I would move it to the 92 gal tank (and if things go good eventualy to the 135 gal tank, if my wife doesent kill me first )..

so as you can see I was not nessasarly trying to "Stir" the pot but rather asking a hypotyhetical question. The reason I call it hypothetical is because I cannot actualy do this as I have a tang in the 92 all ready, (and just for the record, it was our local Tang Police chief "Naesco" that aproved the addition of a tang to my 92, so I have royal grace. ) But if I didn't have one in the 92 I can see this as a cool way to put a nice fish in the smaller tank for a while.

I guess the main question is what kinds of Tangs are nice and helthy when they are real small?

***this is a serious question with no battle intended.. so if you are against something like theis let your stance be knowen but please no flames, if you want to make your point knowen that is cool, but explain your position don't just come across and say "tangs shouldent be in tanks under 500 gal" that doesent get anyone anywhare.

you may wonder whare this question has arose from.. I see more and more people setting up smaller tanks 33gal and less and buying little tangs for them. We know people are going to do it if they want but lets get some ideas about it going.. maby I should start another thread in the general area but this deals with Nanos also.

One of the things I was wondering last night is if Juvinial tangs exhibit behaviour like other fisgh.. that is they school and stay in a small teratory untill they reach sexual maturity, then they go therer own ways and become more nomadic. if this IS true then it might be perfectly OK to keep a small Tang in a small tank for a while then move him into a bigger one when he reached sexual maturity, but I have no comfermation of this so I cannot say.

Steve