achilles tang

[mtkas29]

i just purchased a achilles tang for my 125g...
is this easy or delicate to keep?

[m42]

good luck with that fish. They are hard to acclimate and f\get onto prepared food. I never recommend then to anyone.

A nice Hawiian tang is a Palani. If you can get one they are gracful fish.

[Joel]

As M42 said good luck. I spent my $100 only to find this fish hide in the rocks, wouldn't eat, and died in less than a week. The Achilles is one of my favorite Tangs but I can't afford to buy more than 1 to have it just die. I wish you the best of luck as they are beautiful fish but I won't have another one.

[mtkas29]

thanks guys...

i kinda did some research on this fish...(too late now)
you guys are all right...
i paid $35...it's not too bad...about 4~5"lg
i will ask my lhs if i can exchanged it.

thanks again...

[rayjay]

When I first got mine, he came down with ick. Hypo treatment didn't work so I resorted to copper. He's been just fine ever since. (for so many years now I don't even remember) Mine never hides, but is continually swimming, just like the Powder blue and the Powder brown does.
The Naso and Sailfin are quite passive but the Hippo hides a lot unless I move slowly around it's tank.

[mtkas29]

here is a picture of my achilles tang...
so far, so good...

[Alice]

These fish don't seem to handle shipping stress well. If yours was eating well, was out and about at the LFS and now seems to be out and about in your tank, I'd say you have a good shot at success.

Lots of Nori, treated with garlic and Selcon, should be fed to both your tangs every day. Watch out for aggression between the two tangs and have everything you need to set up a QT in case they do break out with ich.

Good luck!

Alice

[blckmstng]

it looks like there are three tangs; i think that is a sailfin in the left corner

[mtkas29]

yes...that is a medium size sailfin...


they really love NORI...

other tankmates:
6 blue green chromis
1 percula clown
1 pink skunk clown

i'll buy some corals today...