"Tristan" wrote in message ...
I sure hope there is no Tang Police around hearing that folks want to
put a tang in a 55 ;-) Heck on some forums just the mere thought of
putting one in a 75 gal will bring on a wrath of flames much worse
than one would get in hell.

Owning this fish I can tell your from my first hand experience that
55 gallon tank is way too small for this big, strong and very agile fish.
It is swimming in my 58 gallon, 3-feet long reef tank and this is very
sad look: it resembles a dog living its whole life in a space of the
size of office building an elevator...
But beginners are stupid and I was not any exception from this rule
so I got it from the store when it was 2" fish, now it is about 8" and
I am sorry for him but there is no room for a bigger tank...
It really takes him a blink of an eye to jump across this small tank.

Yu can always get a good but somewhat
repetitiouis conversation going with a title like "Will my Blue Tang
have enough room in my 29 gal if I add a yellow tang too? and continue
on with I only have two fish total and the other is a NIger Trigger.
When it was a freshwater setup it had 18 fish in it without a problem.

These fish were probably not 8" long each and they were not such
fast moving fish as the reef guys are, used to beating of the waves.
It is really hard to compare a feshwater angel fish, sitting half day
in one place to a speedy hippo tang moving whole day like crazy...