What kind of tang is this?

[bigdave]

Hey! Trying to find out what kind of tang this is and are they hard to get? If anyone could help that would be great!! Thanks Dave

 

[Witfull]

do you have a better pic,,,this one is ummmmm missing.

 

[Elmo18]

Hi Dave, hmm no picture/photo.

I'd call that a Zebrasoma whereisdaphoto

- Elmo

 

[bigdave]

sorry im not to smart sometimes, got alittle ahead of myself

 

[bri7969]

how about making it bigger now

 

[Witfull]

Zebrasoma postagastampa....usually run 37 cents each.....lol

 

[bigdave]

bigger

 

[bigdave]

and bigger

 

[bigdave]

Anyone know where I can get one? Thanks for the help!

 

[Elmo18]

What you have there seems to be from the group of tangs called Mimic tangs. Could be Acanthurus pyroferus . Can you get a clearer shot of the head area, before the midregion. Closer shot of the tail will help also.

Definitely an Acanthurus family.

- Elmo

 

[bigdave]

tail

here is the best shot of the tail, don't have anymore pics sorry he would hold still long. thanks dave

 

[Elmo18]

yep, its a mimic tang.

- Elmo

 

[bigdave]

more

try bigger

 

[bigdave]

Thanks

Thanks Elmo. Do you know if they are hard to keep and get?

 

[bigdave]

chocolate tang

I looked up mimic tang and they are all yellow pictures i found. Another one i found they call a Chocolate Tang could that be it?

 

[Witfull]

chocolate and mimic are the same fish, Acanthurus pyroferus scroll to the bottom pics

 

[Elmo18]

Acanthurus pyroferus

Yup that's the same as the species name I stated above.

Here is an excerpt taken from Wetwebmedia.com

Acanthurus pyroferus
Kittliz 1834, the Chocolate Surgeonfish. Indo-Pacific; Seychelles to the French Polynesia, down to the GBR. To ten inches in length. A successful mimic of three (four if you count C. vrolikii in Palau where C. flavissimus is absent and it mimics the other!) Centropyge Angels. Shown here as a wild type on the right, mimics in captivity below and below them, the Dwarf Angels that Acanthurus pyroferus most typically mimics; Eibl's, the true Lemonpeel, and Herald's. Aquarium images. Lastly, a comparison with A. pyroferus (in N. Sulawesi) and C. vrolikii.

here is the site with pictures. As a mimic tang, it can imitate centropyge angels.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/acanthurTngs.htm

Scroll down to see the photos.

- Elmo

 

[bigdave]

Hey Thanks alot for your help both of you and thanks for the website great reading. looks like it would be a cool fish im going to keep reserching. again thanks for the help

 

[Witfull]

ha ha elmo,,,,beat ya by a minute...LOLOLOL

 

[Elmo18]

Hey Thanks alot for your help both of you and thanks for the website great reading. looks like it would be a cool fish im going to keep reserching. again thanks for the help

I guess im gonna have the last laugh, because i told him what it was way up top. :lol: Look who got beat now!

- Elmo