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4-6 hours but not at first... gradually increase the time they are on so you don't shock your corals.

Id just get the yellow tang, blues get 12 inches and probably would not fit in your smaller 70 gallon tank.

I'd set a trap and see what you've got... the worst that can happen is you trap some of your hermits, you can make a trap out of a regular soda bottle... just invert the mouth of the bottle so its like a funnel and of coarse remove all the labeling and glue... put some tastey raw shrimp or fish...

Did you by chance get some live rock and have a mantis hitchhiker on there? Or maybe one of your inverts was a green brittle star? My first guess would be a mantis shrimp.

Achilles tang is a different genus... I'd add with caution but I would expect your scopulas to be the aggressor since he's established and not your achilles

your yellow tailed blue damsel is definately one of the more passive damsels, you may have good luck.

Often times if the achilles tangs are not in large enough aquariums they pace until they waste away. I have had one in the pet store I used to work at, and I highly recomend a 6 foot tank for this one. But this is definately one of the best tangs out there IMO. Give him plenty of nori!

sand sifters are hard to take care of considering they eat thereselves out of house and home... site feeding is the only way to combate their huge eating habits... but it usually fails. I would not get another sand sifter because they eat all the good things in your live sand.

a nano for your first tank? good luck, they can be a challenge, make sure you keep those chemistry levels constant. What kind of lighting do you have, corals need quite a few watts.

The 50 gallon is the absolute min. for the tang, not your 20 gallon, but yes rearranging the tank decore, and also introducing a fish when its dark will help.

I'd say more like 75 gallons... liveaquaria is skewed toward smaller tank sizes. Think of it this way, that tang can get 8 inches long, that means in a 55 gallon tank you only have 4 inches to turn around and swim...

I love my blue tang, I got her when she was the size of a dime and now shes the size of a fifty cent piece two months later. Right now she's in a twenty gallon qt but soon she will be added to my new 125 gallon tank. She has a lot of GREAT personality, and I did have a small ich outbreak but...

Yes they would get along... usually its the same generas that don't... but your 70 gallon tank will proove way to small for these two fish. A tank twice that size would be sufficent. Remember yellow tangs get 8 inches (and amost that wide) and blues get 10-12! They need 6 feet of swimming...

IMO no... the convict tang wouldn't be the best choice... nor would the marine betta. Not sure on the butterfly fish but usually they need more like 75-100 gallons. Why not a dwarf angel??? Cardinalfish???

can you find argonite sand at home depot or menards??? I really don't want to buy 125lbs of argonite sand at pet store prices!