Doc
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So, I thought I had my tank complete. I was prepared to add my last fish - totally happy with my science experiment (large angels in a reef system). I ordered a HUGE emperor for my tank - my last fish, so I thought. I brought home my emperor to add it to the tank with the blue / queen cross only to find that the purple tang had beat it to death. The angel was roughly the same size as the tang and guess it felt threatened by him. He had been nipping at the angel a little bit and it looked as if his fins were frayed. I watched the tang finish off the angel trapping him against the rock and beating it to death. I am so frustrated. I really like the color of the tang, but don't want him to ravage the new emperor.
I have my fingers crossed cuz the emperor is 9 inches long and just about three times the size of the tang. Any suggestions to keeping the tang from getting himself yanked out of my tank? If I have to choose between the tang or the emperor - I choose the emperor. Let me know what you think.
Here is another question about stocking the tank - how much is too much fish? I have about 30 inches of fish and the parameters are perfect (a touch of phosphates, but I have always had those with no ill to my corals).
-Dr Marco:sfish:
I have my fingers crossed cuz the emperor is 9 inches long and just about three times the size of the tang. Any suggestions to keeping the tang from getting himself yanked out of my tank? If I have to choose between the tang or the emperor - I choose the emperor. Let me know what you think.
Here is another question about stocking the tank - how much is too much fish? I have about 30 inches of fish and the parameters are perfect (a touch of phosphates, but I have always had those with no ill to my corals).
-Dr Marco:sfish: