Conspecific Tang Opinions?

[Philnashbass]

I have a yellow and blue tang that have currently outgrown their current tank. I am considering putting the two in my 220 gal, which also contains a 4" Hippo and 5" Yellow. Any opinions as to my success? Are the two smaller doomed or is the "real estate" sufficient for hiding etc?

[bandit]

Should be large enough maybe move some rock work around that will mess up the tangs, but it's hood you are adding 2 my guess is. It would work

[Philnashbass]

I prepped my two smaller tangs and was ready to take a deep breath by adding them to my 220...not knowing how things would work out with my larger resident yellow and hippo tangs. I added the smaller yellow tang first and watched with horror as the large yellow resident chased him down and pinned him behind a large barricade for an hour or so. At this point I thought, "I've made a stupid rookie mistake." Immediately I began prepped my smaller hippo for a return to the original smaller tank-not ready to subject another beautiful tang to this kind of stress.
Almost to the hour, I noticed that the smaller yellow (now in the 220 gal.) started to "take a stand" with the larger yellow. As is proving himself to the larger-but not in aggressive manner, that he was a "friendly". The larger yellow tang almost immediately seemed to accept his new tank mate. It's been two days now, and they swim together and I don't see anymore "grand standing" or odd behaviour from the two-whew!
So here I am again, now considering the hippo move. By the way, I also moved a pair of Gold Bar Maroons into the 220 from my cube, and immediately had to evict a pair of Occelaris because the Maroons would not tolerate the mix-even if it is a 220 gal.

[Stussi613]

Maroons are extremely aggressive, even as clowns go.  I've seen people with multiple pairs of ocealaris in a tank your size with no issues, but maroons don't seem to tolerate any other clowns at all.

For what it's worth, you can keep multiple yellow tangs in a tank your size, but usually you would introduce them all at the same size and time.  Got Fish (David) has 4 of them in his personal 250g and they "play" with each other.

I'm glad yours have worked it out, and hopefully your hippos adapt just as well.

[ramblnpony]

I saw a link (maybe on Albert Thiels' thread) of where you build an inexpensive cage with egg crate and tie wraps and secure in it your tank. Place the new fish in the cage for a few hours or half a day and this will let all fish get used to each other. The water can flow through it and you can try and feed the tang to help de-stress him. I remember this experienced reefer did this with all new additions.