20-50 gallon Tang. setups?

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señor_pescados_felices

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I am hoping to get some info on our MFK members small to mid sized tang setups for a project (for lack of a better word) I am working on.

To start off I was hoping to hear from members with 20 gallon to 50 gallon tang setups.I know there are some tiny tang cichlids that can maybe be kept in smaller tanks but for somone looking to get into the smaller tangs a 20g long would be the minimum I would recommend,but preferably a 29 gallon for a few different reasons such as as they are easy to obtain, affordable, and often come in a "starter kit" which can be bought and the components gradualy switched out as funds become available (an option enticing to many begining aquarists).

Info I was looking for would include,but not be limited to:

Stocklist

Filtration

Decor

Buffers

Special or abnormal feeding requirments for said stocklist

Any problems you may have had setting up the tank,especially any compatibility issues that may have arisen.

It would also help to include fish species that could possibly be switched for a species you have wich may be hard to come by or not recommended for a beginner.

In addition,I was trying to think of some way to apply a recommended skill level of 1-5 to any given tank so that it can give an idea of where you should be at as far as experiance level before trying a particular setup,if that makes any sense.Any help or suggestions on "fine tuning" the rating system,or weather or not its even a good idea, are greatly appreciated.

Factors I think would affect the skill level are,but again are not limited to:

average aggression level of tank occupants (was it hard to get them to co-exhist?)

Average difficulty in getting a hold of species in said tank (did you have to special order them,get them online?or can you get them at petco,petsmart?)

Average difficulty of caring for and doing maintanance on said tank (are the fish delicate or hardy? are they liable to get sick at the slightest swing in ph levels or the slightest spike in water parameters?)

I thank you for you time on this matter and I assure you that if I can get enough data together I will turn it into something worthwhile for MFK in the future.

señor_pescados_felices
Monstruo de Malawi
 
you can get some great species specific information on cichlid-forum.com

as for the other info you requested:
Stocklist: what ever you want. i myself am limited to whats availible in memphis.
Filtration: 75gallon biowheel will be more than enough on a 50g
decor: stacked rock. if you decide on shell dwellers:shells
Buffer: never used them. Carib-Sea african cichlid sand if great
cichlid-forum gives aggression and conspecific aggresion scale 1-5 and they have a section for stocking different sized tanks
good luck
 
toehead11183;685676; said:
you can get some great species specific information on cichlid-forum.com
cichlid-forum gives aggression and conspecific aggresion scale 1-5 and they have a section for stocking different sized tanks
good luck
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Thank you for taking the time out to reply.

First of all let me apologize for not making my original intentions clear.

I realize cichlid-forum and a few others have a cookie cutter section and a species profile section...but MFK could use one as well.I was hoping to make something similar for MFK members looking to setup rift tanks as opposed to directing them to another site, which hardly helps the site develope,and especialy hinders the development of the African section which is one of the slower sections of MFK as it is.

We (Thanks to Ash) have begun on somwhat of a species profile section...the info is there it could just use a bit more organization.In an effort to do something at least somwhat original I opted to refrain from copy/pasting any info from other sites and wanted to try to use setups that MFK members themselves have setup and know work to set up my "cookie cutters"

If not enough people here have small Tang setups to gather worth-while info than I will move on to asking info of 55 gallon+ tang setups.I then plan to ask of Mbuna setups and then will finish by asking of Hap and peacock setups.

In this way I can (hopefully) gather the info needed to setup a sort of "cookie cutter section" for MFK,though I would like to refrain from using that title for it just as I would like to refrain from using the info from other sites as much as possible.This is mainly due to the fact that the idea was to make a "rift tank setup" thread or section for MFK made entirely of info provided by MFK members themselves.

Thank you for all time and consideration spent on this matter,
señor_pescados_felices

PS: for example telling somone looking to set up a tang tank "whatever you want" for a recommended stocklist could have bad results.
 
Okay but fitting is one thing,getting along is another.Ive mixed julies and brichardis and had a war on my hands.

The reason I wanted to start with small Tang setups is because from what Ive seen their setup process differs slightly from a standard sized tang tankin much the same way setting up a nano reef differs from a large one.

Ive seen very small tanks house a community of tiny shell dwellers,some of which are extremely conspecific aggressive and others which are just nasty little buggers in general.

But as I mentioned it was just an idea and if I cant get enough info on "nano-rift setups" than I will move on to something else.
 
i have a 55gal tang tank and in my expirience each species minds its own bussines.. my favorite is a. calvus it never bully no one, fits everywere, and never step forward in a fight, always recive punches
 
don't know if it helps out at all, but i have about a dozen tangs in a 55, tropheus, leleupi, tretacephalus, brichardi, helianthus, a bunch of julies, etc, and as they get older and bigger (although the growth is pretty slow) all of them are getting very aggressive, thankfully there are enough hiding spots and enough fish where none specifically get picked on more than any others, but i do think a 55 gallon or bigger would be better for tangs, just my opinion
 
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