Interesting behavior

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Wayne Sallee wrote:
Sounds like breeding. Not only is it unusual for them to cross breed,
but it's unusual for tangs to breed in tanks. What size tank do you have?

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Pat wrote on 9/22/2006 1:04 PM:

Well, hmmm....I could go with the version I sent to the Penthouse
forum . What details can I provide? Foxface excreting something
that looks like sand, but it's frequent and I don't assume he eats
that much sand to pass it in such quantities...so I assume it's eggs
or some creepy diseased excrement. Tang excretes a cloudy substance,
assumption is either again non-standard excrement or Dori is a bad
name for a clearly male fish. The 2 fish in question have been good
friends for a while they are always swimming together. Maybe they are
taking their relationship to the next level?

Wayne Sallee wrote:

More detailes please :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Pat wrote on 9/22/2006 11:47 AM:

So in my tank I have a foxface and blue tang amongst other things.

My foxface frequently deposits what I guess are eggs, but I could be
completely wrong. It's granular and whiteish, for all I know it
could be sand, but does not resemble standard detritus. The other
day whilst observing my finned friends I saw my blue tang(hippo
tang, regal tang, dori from nemo...etc) doing what appeared to be
going #3 on the alleged eggs. Is it possible that they were trying
to get their procreation on? Is cross breeding possible? Am I
witnessing something else?