Two Purple Tangs...anyone?

[BIGBIRD123]

Anyone ever put two PT together? Well, I bought a new Purple Tang and was going to move my smaller one to my wife's tank but could not catch him last night after several hrs of trying. So, I needed to put the new one in the tank. With plenty of worries, I added him anticipating a fury of #*%#!#$%%& to come but they look to be schooling...swimming together. The new one is 6.5" and the other is 4.5" Anyone ever see this before? Pretty cool...

Steve

[clone]

I have,ive seen it in a friends-brothers tank, i maintane.
That guys a compulsive spender and the day he told me he had got that tang,i told him they would fight to the death,but they didnt,and they are both still alive after about a year.
HE WANTS TO ADD A SOHAL NOW.

[ErikH]

That's cool BB! My two yellows school around, but they have small little fights, but only for like 30 seconds at a time. They never nip, just flare their fins out and whip their scalpels at each other.

[tropicana]

Ive heard, as long as you put them in how you did. Have the smaller one first, then put the larger one in. Ive heard that usually works for mating a pair as well.

[Jonthefishguy]

I have placed a couple of purple tangs in the same tank and they did fine. In my personal tank I have 2 yellows, i sailfin, 2 hippo's, and adding an atlantic blue as well as an achillies. I did have a powder brown in there at one time but it lasted 3 minutes as I placed it in the tank, it went out of its way to swim and snuggle in a long tentacle. Personally I think it road the short bus to school. DUMB FISH!!!! All in all I have a total of 24 fish in the tank.

[p00num3lli]

how big is tour tank john?!?!!? and is it a reef or FO? wow i have 3 fish in my 75, lol

[Jonthefishguy]

240 reef mainly SPS. two yellow tangs, 1 sailfin, 2 hippo's, 2 red firefish, 2 false perculas, 2 true percula, 3 green chromis, 1 flame angel, 1 pearscale butterfly, 1 mandarin, 1 purple square anthias, 2 lyretail anthias, 2 tiger queen anthias, 1 royal gramma, 1 diamond goby.