Species profile
Yellow tang
Zebrasoma flavescens
ai-generated confidence: high
AI-generated aquarium-care values from common marine hobby consensus; expert review is recommended before launch-quality advice.
Care table
| Water type | saltwater |
|---|---|
| Care level | moderate |
| Minimum tank | 100 US gal / 379 L |
| Minimum group size | 1 |
| Adult size | 20 cm |
| Temperature | 24-27 C |
| pH | 8-8.4 |
| Hardness | Not applicable or not reviewed-Not applicable or not reviewed dGH |
| Salinity | 33-35 ppt |
| Temperament | semi-aggressive grazer |
| Aggression notes | Active surgeonfish that needs a long mature tank and may bully similar-shaped tangs or late additions. |
| Diet | herbivore |
| Swim zone | middle/all |
| Activity level | very active |
| Bioload | high |
| Reef safe | Yes |
| Plant safe | Not applicable or not reviewed |
| Invert safe | Yes |
| Compatibility tags | saltwater, reef-safe, tang, active-swimmer, large-tank, semi-aggressive, algae-grazer, high-bioload |
| Avoid with tags | small-tank, similar-tang, very-aggressive-fish |
Tank mate compatibility
Generated same-water-type pair checks for Yellow tang.
- Can Yellow tang and Banggai cardinalfish live together? caution
- Can Yellow tang and Blue tang live together? not recommended
- Can Yellow tang and Firefish goby live together? caution
- Can Yellow tang and Green chromis live together? caution
- Can Yellow tang and Mandarin dragonet live together? caution
- Can Yellow tang and Ocellaris clownfish live together? caution
- Can Yellow tang and Royal gramma live together? caution
Sources and attribution
Source links are verification references for taxonomy and identifiers. Aquarium-care values are AI-generated from common hobby consensus and need expert review before launch-quality advice.
- Wikidata search - Taxonomy/identifier verification lead only.
- GBIF species search - Taxonomy verification lead only.
- WoRMS taxon search - Marine taxonomy verification lead only.