Hello everyone
Hope y'all doing well. I have a very small juvenile 1.5" orange shoulder tang that just passed its copper treatment and prazi. Almost done with qt. Unfortunately I was unsuccessful with qt in most of my fish. The sole survivor was the Orange shoulder. I saw some aggression from the orange shoulder to the sailfin. Although I never noticed it at first. I posted a thread here and people pointed it out. The sailfin was extremely thin and sickly before even the aggression, and I think that was the nail in the coffin, or honestly could've just died with the stress of copper. Unfortunately for now this is the only fish I have. It will be the third fish in the display tank. First two were some clowns. I've read the past threads here and everyone says an orange shoulder is passive. I am trying to understand tang aggression more.
So my questions are:
- Would it be wise to put it so early in the tank? It would take me months before I can introduce another tang or even another fish.
- Is this aggressiveness a permanent characteristic of this particular fish, or was it just a small 15 gallon qt that caused this aggression.
- The fish is ACTIVE. It wants to swim and explore. Its demolishing every nori sheet and pretty much eats everything. I wanna move it out of the qt ASAP because I feel bad it doesn't have the swimming space it needs. my main DT is a 300g 7ft.
Thanks for the help!
Hope y'all doing well. I have a very small juvenile 1.5" orange shoulder tang that just passed its copper treatment and prazi. Almost done with qt. Unfortunately I was unsuccessful with qt in most of my fish. The sole survivor was the Orange shoulder. I saw some aggression from the orange shoulder to the sailfin. Although I never noticed it at first. I posted a thread here and people pointed it out. The sailfin was extremely thin and sickly before even the aggression, and I think that was the nail in the coffin, or honestly could've just died with the stress of copper. Unfortunately for now this is the only fish I have. It will be the third fish in the display tank. First two were some clowns. I've read the past threads here and everyone says an orange shoulder is passive. I am trying to understand tang aggression more.
So my questions are:
- Would it be wise to put it so early in the tank? It would take me months before I can introduce another tang or even another fish.
- Is this aggressiveness a permanent characteristic of this particular fish, or was it just a small 15 gallon qt that caused this aggression.
- The fish is ACTIVE. It wants to swim and explore. Its demolishing every nori sheet and pretty much eats everything. I wanna move it out of the qt ASAP because I feel bad it doesn't have the swimming space it needs. my main DT is a 300g 7ft.
Thanks for the help!
