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Hear me out So I’ve had my ten gallon reef tank setup for around 3 months and my mother bought a baby blue tang from the LFS because she wanted a dory. I don’t know much about blue tangs since I only had a pair of juvenile clownfish for less than a month but when I searhed it up it says they require a bigger tank. Right now she has plenty of hiding places and she eats quite well and likes to remain close to the circulation pump. I make sure all of my water parameters are at zero and ph at 8.2 every three days and I’m running a uv sterilizer and surface skimmer as well as over filtering the tank. Water is crystal clear and it has no signs of sickness. I want to know if I can keep the tang in the ten gallon tank for now with full intentions of putting her in a 90 gallon tank once she gains another inch or two on her and then upgrading to a bigger tank once she gets to around six inches. I will move her to a bigger tank I just need to save up to buy more live rock and live sand I have the tank already since I used to own discus two years ago until I moved back to Georgia. Sold the fish but kept the tank. I did try to return it but they had a 24 hour return policy and I went two days after. She has grown on me and I have fallen in love with it.
I think you are in a difficult spot with this tiny fish that needs your care, a mother who has unwittingly bought into your hobby/habit, and the significant peer pressure on here from staunch advocates for Hippos rights. The solution is beautifully simple:
Show your mom this thread and explain to her that "Dory's life is in danger!" The only viable moral solution is for her to purchase a massive custom upgrade with all the bells and whistles to allow this blue tang to live comfortably for it's entire life expectancy.
How much room is available at Mom's? Most of us don't get this kind of a clear pathway to the upgrade of our dreams, but you have been given a green light directly from Neptune, The King of the Ocean to set up an utterly rediculous reef tank at mom's expense.
What a wonderful opportunity for you and Dory. I look forward to following your new build thread.
Welcome to Reef2Reef! We have a lot of fun on here supporting each other in the hobby.
One of my all-time favorite fish was a baby hippo tang I had in a 50-gallon cube. It started out the size of a nickel and grew to about 4 inches in a very short time. I loved that fish, it was friendly and always busy swimming and the most fantastic blue coloration. I traded it back in as it was getting too large for my tank and I worked at a fish store where I could oversee the rehoming. I still miss that fish.