There’s been a lot of confusion regarding the keeping of surgeonfish in reef aquaria especially when it comes to keeping multiple specimens and several different species within the same tank. Experienced reefers have never had a problem keeping a yellow with a convict and tomini tang but there are a few factors to consider if you want a healthy school of surgeonfish, especially when they are first added to the aquarium.
We’ve fielded the question countless times across all of our content throughout the years but the answer is not neatly summarized with a few words or even a couple of sentences, so we decided to do a whole video about the subject. We enjoy the company of over 50 various surgeonfish spread out across a dozen reef and fish aquariums and almost every tank has at least a pair of tangs or more depending on the size, and we’ve narrowed down the techniques for keeping multiple surgeonfish in the same aquarium to four different factors.
The first factor is the size of the tank – there’s nothing wrong with keeping one or more small tangs in a smaller tank, in fact this can be quite beneficial for them when they are smaller and younger as they can enjoy a calmer life in a kind of nursery setting. As the fish grows and requires more room you can transfer it to a larger aquarium and this is what many newer reefers will do as their tank(s) grow in the size during their time in the hobby.
要考虑的第二个因素是鱼的大小 - 如果尺寸差异足够大，以至于既定的汤丝都不会对，则可以将外科医生鱼的最大标本添加到单个，一对或三重奏中是很简单的。较新的较大标本被添加到学校。如果您在已建立的学校或一小群水族馆外科医生中添加一条小鱼，您可能会遇到一些侵略性，欺凌和一般兼容性问题。
The third and most important factor to keep in mind when growing your group of aquarium tangs is the aggressive nature of the species in particular. You can add a more dominant species of surgeonfish to a school of more docile species but it doesn’t work the other way around – you’ll probably be fine adding a clown, sohal, or large acanthurus like a powder blue tang to a group of斑马瘤of bristlemouth tangs but you’ll encounter some extreme chasing and bullying if you try to add a small yellow or scopas or tomini to a tank with a dominant sailfin orAcanthurusspecies.
开发您的外科医生家族的最后一个考虑因素是通过与鱼一起玩音乐水族馆来“重置”唐人的人群。This is not practical for one-tank reefers but if you have multiple aquariums, it’s possible to shuffle your surgeonfish pets around until you add all the fish to their final home at the same time so no single specimen has the chance to establish its territory and become aggressive before any other tank mate.
重置水族馆领土的实践与非洲丽鱼科鱼类的饲养员没有什么不同，他们可能会重新安排所有岩石，而Aquascape则可以重置任何领土标记。当然，在添加新鱼时，我们没有相同的自由来重新排列礁石水族馆，因此我们的方法是重新排列鱼类种群。该视频制作非常有趣，我们还为使用标本杯而不是在剪辑中使用手持式鱼网的理由，我们在尝试的一分钟内同时捕获了五个大黄色唐人。
