For Sale Achilles Tang is on sale at live aquaria

I wonder how many you can buy at once... wouldn't be a bad idea to get a few people to buy them together to cut shipping price if people are interested.

 

This is a new fish to me....and I am completely taken by it. Beautiful!

 

I've seen a few around. I know Coral Haven has a few in their main display and I saw some when I was up in Milwaukee the other weekend but haven't seen any in my neck of the woods

 

I had a small one a few years ago in my 90. It was one of my favorite fish. They have quite the personality.

 

keep in mind these are expert only.

It is estimated that 9-10 die within 30 days

 

What makes this tang so much harder to keep alive than other similar tangs like the Orange Shoulder Tang or the Lieutenant Tang?

 

One of my favorite tangs. I personally wouldn't put one in anything smaller than a 300 gallon tank. Very active fish. I have seen a few in smaller tanks and they always looked sick. Pale looking and not very active.
I have no idea why they are hard to keep. Maybe they just don't ship well and harder to acclimate to the food we feed in our glass boxes.

 

I had one for about 6 months in a 110 gallon 6 ft tank. It was a from a guys tank that was having ick problems. Long story short, i kept it alive, fattened it up and returned it to him. One thing i noticed about them is they LOVE flow. That thing would swim right in front of my return outlets almost all day. I also remember it really some liked some sort of green frozen food, i think it was called Lifeline.

 

Seascapes has one its in their main display now they have had it for probably a month or so.

 

Anyone willing to get one. I will get one if anyone orders

 

I received mine today and wow what a beautiful fish took 5 hours to acclimate the salinity was 1.017. I ordered a clam with it to receive free shipping plus Saturday delivery wasn't that bad but my box was leaking my clam bag had a small hole in it so called liveaquara and let them know what happened and took pictures and sent them to them. Little worried at frist but after 1.5 of acclimation put him in the tank and opened right up hopefully that's a good sign

 

I have a 220

 

A few weeks to make sure he is eating well than I'll move him he is eating frozen brine shrimp next hopefully he will start on pellets while keeping the algee clip stocked full of algee