Any experience with a kole yellow eyed tang?

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Is this fish aggressive towards other peaceful fishes? What do you guys feed them and are they easy to take care of? Are the aggressive with new arrivals? My kole tang is about 2inches and will be the only tang in my tank. My tank is 180 gallons. I'm sorry for al te questions just want to really get the most feedback that I can. Anymore you would like to add will help a lot. Thank you guys for the help.
 
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Carefull if it's the 1st Tang... Mine was a total A-hole to anything added after him... Till I added 5 yellows at once...

Kole are usually really mellow, but there is always that D!ck fish.. Like mine...
 
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Was the aggression only towards new tangs or any new fish that you added?
Nope... He killed a Foxface, Mandarin and something else I can't remember at the moment. I will say he still hates the lawnmower blenny to this day. Good fish, just a D!ck....
Since I added the yellows and a purple he isn't the dominant fish in the tank.

FYI, the tank is a 240. 8'x2'x2'

Still fat and Happy, just not king of the kingdom. All fish have a personality, some good, some not so good. Depends on the individual fish. When I got him, I had the mindset that Kole tangs are mellow, and thought it best to add a non aggressive fish first before the ones I knew would potentially be trouble with other tangs.. I was proven wrong with mine..

Still a really cool fish, just be warned that the generalities about certain species are not always correct.

Best of luck!
 
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I love mine. Very peaceful. Great algae cleaner and a beautiful fish.


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IME koles need some space. Mine, as it grew, killed two chromis but mainly because it was a 55 gallon. He's fine now cuz I keep it well fed and in a larger tank.
 
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How big are your Kole tangs I'm just curious and how big might they get? Hopefully mines is peaceful and doesn't hurt any fish. Right now I have him in a 20 gallon with a clownfish on my QT tank and he seems fine and thank you.
 

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