tangs & clowns

[treesprite]

Do these guys usually stick together like glue? I kind of wanted to have a bright yellow fish swimming around in the tank but this guy doesn't leave the clowns' sides.

 

Most of the time the clowns are back in their home space whith their BTA, so the tang is staying back there with them. (For reference, the female clown is twice the size of the tang and the male is about the same size of the tang). If the clowns come out for food, that's when the tang comes out and doesn't wander far off from them.

 

Will the tang possibly get injured from a BTA sting from hanging out with it with the clowns? What happens if it gets stung?

[HowardofNOVA]

Simply, Tangs are NOT clowns, don't have the protective slime that clowns do.

Hopefully, he won't follow the spider into their web!

[newfish]

My little Hippo tang usually hangs around my clowns.but my clowns dont go into my anemone yet. I think that my Female clown even gets annoyed by it because she will nudge the tang.

I dont know about everyone else but thats my expierience what very little I have.

Edited February 8, 2008 by newfish

[txaggies07]

My tangs ignore my clowns. That might be because my clowns never leave their anemone except to feed or ward off another fish.

[treesprite]

So pretty much this tang has been a home wrecker between the clowns. It has continued to live in the clown's space. The tang and the female clown are constanttly together - the tang follows the female clown and teh female clown follows the tang. If the tang is on one end of the tank, so is the clown, if the clown goes to the other side, so does the tang. The female clown absolutely never ate nori in teh past - now it follows the tang up to the top of the tank and takes a tiny taste. The female clown is no longer doing the wiggling fanning cuddly thing with the male and pretty much is ignoring him.

[rsarvis]

That's pretty cool. I have to say, one of my favorite things about this hobby is when it seems like members of two different species have become "friends," even if that's not what's really going on. I have a lavender tang that sometimes swims around with my wrasse.

 

So pretty much this tang has been a home wrecker between the clowns. It has continued to live in the clown's space. The tang and the female clown are constanttly together - the tang follows the female clown and teh female clown follows the tang. If the tang is on one end of the tank, so is the clown, if the clown goes to the other side, so does the tang. The female clown absolutely never ate nori in teh past - now it follows the tang up to the top of the tank and takes a tiny taste. The female clown is no longer doing the wiggling fanning cuddly thing with the male and pretty much is ignoring him.

[bprinehart]

That's pretty cool. I have to say, one of my favorite things about this hobby is when it seems like members of two different species have become "friends," even if that's not what's really going on. I have a lavender tang that sometimes swims around with my wrasse.

 

My coral beauty and GSM are best friends, and I dare someone to prove otherwise!

[jason the filter freak]

I dunno clowns don't seem to be dumb creatures, I can't speak for tangs though. I know they can be hurt by anems. My fremale GSM will dart though my Lions fins to get at food, always a fright to watch.

[treesprite]

I dunno clowns don't seem to be dumb creatures, I can't speak for tangs though. I know they can be hurt by anems. My fremale GSM will dart though my Lions fins to get at food, always a fright to watch.

 

The tang had something wrong with it's fin before that I believe was a nem sting because it didn't look like anything else and the tang keeps hovering over teh nem with the clowns.

 

It really disturbs me that this tang essentially broke up the happy marraige of my clowns.