need fish ID help

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jaidexl

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hello,

a friend has decided to give someone another fish as a gift. i decided to get the run-down on the setup and livestock to avoid any poor decisions. as i'm still mainly a freshwater guy i'm having a little trouble here. the pics i was sent are pretty bad, but what i think i'm seeing is a juvenile blue angelfish and a yellow tang (second pic- hiding in cave, i'm told it has a snout, all yellow, no markings), although in some of the juvi blue angel pics i've seen, they have rounded tips on the dorsal and anal fins. and the one that looks like a tang seems to have a stripe on the cheek. any help is appreciated :)

juvi blue angel?
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yellow tang?
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i think i've come to the conclusion that this guy's 55gl is probably overpopulated (also has a clown), given that he doesn't even know the names of his fish, he probably doesn't need anymore.

i was told the clown gets picked on by those two and there are no anemones in the tank. am i correct to assume that a clown should have an anemone? if so i think that's what i might suggest, if anything. i haven't recieved a pic of the clown to ID but i'm told it has 3 white stripes.
 
Clowns do not need anemones, even the wild caught ones will do fine without one. Many are tank bred and have not seen an anemone for 10+ generations, others are tank raised and haven't seen an anemone since they were less than half a centimetre in size.

As for those fish picking on a clown, I have a lone tank rased percula clown and a yellow tang in my tank, no problems at all, and I've had them together for 5 months+.

BTW, thats my friends puffer in my avatar, incase you think they wouldn't make a good combo.
 
cool. thanks for the info everyone. i suppose i'll suggest a live coral if there's room, or a shrimp. thanks again!
 
the angle will also not fit in a 55. and IMO, the tang will not either, esspecialy with a few other fish in there.


and as far as the puffer, like all puffers, it depends highly upon the fish. Although the sharpnosed puffers are more likely to pick. But i do have a moroon clown and a valentini in my 29 that are doing fine. The puffer picked at him when i first transfered the moroon into there from my reef, but they are fine now.


and if a clown doesnt find an anenome, they will find something to host weather it be another type of coral, a powerhead, a rock, or jsut a corner. My pair of ocellarus are hosting in some anthellia, while my moroon is just in a corner.
 
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