Powder blue tang Q's

[pappadow]

Anyone have a powder blue? I want one for my tank but a lot of people are telling me they are a bad idea. "If it makes it past the first 2 weeks it will live forever" type of thing. A lot of the stores around town don't even stock them.

Anyone have experience with this fish?

[MBX5]

I have had one for about 3 months now. I think most tangs get ick and other disses pretty easy. I could be wrong on that. I know in the past I had bad luck with yellow tangs but the blue is great!

[pappadow]

Where did you get the PB? Some of the stores around town want 120 bucks for them. Screw that. They are about 50 bones online.

[MBX5]

I got it at Premier Fish And Reef in Lakewood. I think it was around 50.00. I would never pay more than 120.00.

[calvin415]

Got one for my Dad, we made sure we had 3 cleaner shrimp established for a month before we made the purchase. He added a tiny Purple Tang from the LFS first (did just fine), and then he got the PB from LiveAquaria.com (they have a live arrival and 14 day stay alive guarantee.) Sure enough, we got it and that day it had ich starting to show. But thanks to the cleaners within 2 days all the ich was gone and it's been doing great since!

[hawkfish21]

I had mine for a little over a year. I put it through a two week quarantine. He never had ich in the year I had it. It sure was an awesome fish. The key is to picking a healthy one from the start. I think QA had one but don't remember the price.

[wstellwagen]

Do you really think that a fish as large and active as an adult powder blue has a chance in an aquarium as small as either of yours? Most powder blues die an early death in home tanks.
Get a copy of the recent Coral. Visit Calfos forum search on powder blue.Dont put large fish in a 58 to say nothing of a 30

Walt

[djian]

Neon Gobbies will also help clean the tangs.

[MBX5]

Originally posted by wstellwagen
Do you really think that a fish as large and active as an adult powder blue has a chance in an aquarium as small as either of yours? Most powder blues die an early death in home tanks.
Get a copy of the recent Coral. Visit Calfos forum search on powder blue.Dont put large fish in a 58 to say nothing of a 30

Walt

My blue is in my 72gall. and soon will be in a 150 so do I think it is the wrong size? Nope.

[pappadow]

Whoop here comes the tang police.
I had a scopas in my 58 for 3 years. Untill the GFI breaker killed everything.
I have a Yellow in my 30 gallon at home.
Fish only grow as big as their surroundings. Get them small and they never get very big. My Scopas was only about 3 inches and never got any bigger. My yellow has been in there for 4 years and is barely bigger than his damsel friends.
It's a cruel cruel world for a fish stuck in a glass box. Good thing all forms of life are able to adapt or we would all be dead. I know I wasn't meant to sit at a friggin desk all day and stare at a computer, but I've adapted.

Thanks for the relevant replies. I got a nice one from Reef and Pond.

[MBX5]

Nice! Good luck with it.