Hippo tang + purple tang + yellow tang in 90 gallon = OK?

[finksmart]

Current inhabitants are :

2 yellow tail damsels
1 blue devil
1 royal gamma
1 true perc
1 scooter blenny
2 twin spot gobies

All fish are less than 1 inch except for the royal gamma which is about 1.5 inches. I'd want to start the tangs small and I know I might need to get them together. Let me know what you think. Thanks.

 

[House of Laughter]

The only issue you'll run into is bioload (make sure you have a good skimmer and good WC practices) and the fact the its possible the zebramosa species can fight - I would do the order as follows:

Hippo in first - wait a few weeks
Yellow tang - maybe a week
purple tang.

Or add them all at once.

JMO

House

 

[Deanos]

I'd only add 1 of those tangs to that current stock list.

 

[finksmart]

Thanks.

Hey Deano, which fish would I have to remove to accommodate all 3 tangs? Or is 90 gallon simply not big enough?

 

[jhale]

I would add only the yellow tang, eventually if it lives long enough it will outgrow the 90.

 

[caad3]

I had that same combo in 125 and it didn't work out. The yellow and purple tang would fight constantly. I finally settled on the purple and the hippo, and they actually got along fine. PS the hippo takes craps all the time, so prepared for a spike in the bioload

 

[NYreefNoob]

get rid of all the damsels, one they are ugly when oldr 2 they become very aggressive

 

[finksmart]

Thanks for the advice. I'm building a fish trap for the damsels and gunna go with a small hippo for now. Wish me luck.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Speaking of crap....when I had my tricolor wrasse (jumped the ship after a few years.....), it would gobble down the nori even faster than my yellow tang. Of course, he couldn't digest it....but when he took a crap my tang was always there to eat it.......................

 

[Tangs Rule]

I have the same problem with an Orbic Batfish. He will eat full sheets of nori when I put them in the tank.

Speaking of crap....when I had my tricolor wrasse (jumped the ship after a few years.....), it would gobble down the nori even faster than my yellow tang. Of course, he couldn't digest it....but when he took a crap my tang was always there to eat it.......................