Regal Tang

[bleedmarshall_01]

Now b4 ne one jumps down my throat lets think about this.

I have a 21 wide 16 deep and 19 1/2 high tank. With only a pair of clowns (m+f) various corals clean up crew etc....

Now...... i poped into my lfs today and noticed small 1" paracanthurus hepatus(regals) now......

I was thinking these bad boys get up to 12" no danger where my tank is conserened.

But i looked at the price £25 ........ then there were larger about 5" ones at £45

I then thought y cant i give one of these guys a home for a few months then sell him on. Im sure a small regal would love sharing my tank with 2 clowns! well until he gets around 3"ish

I think this a great idea!

Feedback needed........dont just ***** and be all "ohohohoh 100gallon+" witch is true if your wanting to keep a adult to full maturity, but thats not what i intend to do.

 

[N1z]

if ur thinking you can then sell it on i can tell u now u only usually get half of what they sell them at m8 thats the max it can be lower in some cases, trust me i did it with my cichlids and some marine fish plus i work in a fish shop and we can be well tight some times

 

[Navarre]

they wont offer you any more than cost price for these fish (and that is lucky if htey d). Why wuld they offer you more than cost price when they can get the same fish etc..?

So basically you would need to sell privately and try to undercut the shops. This of course possible but then you must consider trying to catch the fish among all the liverock and the stress it will get through this... if the fish gets ich soon after then you might get an angry owner contacting you soon after you get rid of it.

Basically i would not try it. I dont like keeping fish on the shory term as i try and keep fish that will be able to live in my system for their entire natural life.