Tangs!!!!

[Achilles Tang]

Anthony.. yes, mine was from CF.

And I suggest you repost outside this thread. This thread is for showing off your tangs... not discussing pricing!

(will delete it later)

[Cookiemunster]

Somebody asked for pix of my tang?

Here's my adult chocolate tang... I love his sickle-shaped orange tail and fins!

I really dun understand these fish names. This fish is blue. All I see is blue blue and more blue. Hell he even looks more blue than a blue tang.

Why is it called a chocolate tang???? And I have never seen this fish for sale before anywhere. I can't even find it in www.liveaquaria.com

AT can you provide more info such as aggressiveness, size, requirements? I really want to get one of this too. Its blue is amazing!

[Achilles Tang]

It's a mimic tang, Acanthurus pyroferus. Also known as chocolate tang.

This extract taken from: http://www.exotictropicals.com/encyclo/mar...s/chocolate.php

Pictured above are juvenile specimens of the mimic tang. It appears the tang on the top is mimicking C. flavissimus (Lemonpeel angel) while the tang on the bottom is mimicking C. vroliki (Pearl-scaled angel) or Eiblii's angelfish. When they get older their dorsal, ######, and tail fins become outlined in dark blue or black while the body changes from yellow to orange to light blue.

These fish mimic the pygmy angelfish like Centropyge eiblii, C. flavissimus, or C. vroliki, when they are young. Presumably they mimic these angelfish because they have a better defense against predators than the tang until the spines on their caudal peduncle matures.

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Actually, it's not that blue. It's more of a nice slate grey colour under bright yellow light and appears blue when only the Radiums are on. It looks more beautiful in photographs which is really amazing... I did no colour touchup or editing... what you see is what you get.

My adult Chocolate Mimic Tang is very friendly and will swim around my hand when I am arranging my rocks or corals.

Juvenile mimic tangs are quite ugly but become beautiful later!

I found the liveaquaria link here

[flubberina13]

My adult Chocolate Mimic Tang is very friendly and will swim around my hand when I am arranging my rocks or corals.

With his scalpels at ninety degrees awaiting for the right timing...Hahaha...

[Achilles Tang]

If he dares to cut me, I will go to my kitchen and show him my chopper scapel!

[Terryz_]

my blue tang...

[Dispar_Anthias]

just want check the price tag of all tangs,

Black Tang $220 +

Achilles Tang $85-100

Kole Tang $40

Purple Tang $40-50

Yellow Tang $25

Regal Tang $12

Sailfin Tang ?

Clown Tang ?

Orange shoulder Tang ?

Naso Tang ?

Sohal Tang ?

Unicorn Tang ?

Chevron Tang ?

Powder Blue Tang ?

Powder Brown Tang ?

chocolate tang ?

AT

how much u bought ur chocolate tang?... last time C328 quote me $65. u bought urs from CF?

Hey i know most of the tangs price you mentioned in your thread but at say cannot discuss price here so

[Cookiemunster]

It's a mimic tang, Acanthurus pyroferus. Also known as chocolate tang.

This extract taken from: http://www.exotictropicals.com/encyclo/mar...s/chocolate.php

Pictured above are juvenile specimens of the mimic tang. It appears the tang on the top is mimicking C. flavissimus (Lemonpeel angel) while the tang on the bottom is mimicking C. vroliki (Pearl-scaled angel) or Eiblii's angelfish. When they get older their dorsal, ######, and tail fins become outlined in dark blue or black while the body changes from yellow to orange to light blue.

These fish mimic the pygmy angelfish like Centropyge eiblii, C. flavissimus, or C. vroliki, when they are young. Presumably they mimic these angelfish because they have a better defense against predators than the tang until the spines on their caudal peduncle matures.

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Actually, it's not that blue. It's more of a nice slate grey colour under bright yellow light and appears blue when only the Radiums are on. It looks more beautiful in photographs which is really amazing... I did no colour touchup or editing... what you see is what you get.

My adult Chocolate Mimic Tang is very friendly and will swim around my hand when I am arranging my rocks or corals.

Juvenile mimic tangs are quite ugly but become beautiful later!

I found the liveaquaria link here

Sigh no wonder. Its the radiums. Anything looks nice with the 800W radiums.

Even a plastic spoon looks rare and good in the light of AT's tank.

hahaha Thanks for the info bro.

[Dispar_Anthias]

Sigh no wonder. Its the radiums. Anything looks nice with the 800W radiums.

Even a plastic spoon looks rare and good in the light of AT's tank.

hahaha Thanks for the info bro.

NO IMO i believe that the chocolate tang have receive too much sunlight from AT 4X400watss thus become so tanned and thus the colour look different

[gtrigger]

My new tang, 1 week old; active, but don't eat pellets.

[sherman]

and the last tang...the choc surgeontang...... my favourite!!! but on off ich.....feeding it garlic soaked nori.....keeping fingers crossed.

Bro,

I have the ich and white spot problem with my powder blue and blue tang also.

Does feeding them with garlic help?

Any other thing I can do to prevent ich and white spot.

All other fishes in the tank ok.

Regards

[sherman]

Ok but one word of warning, this fish grow up to 1plus to 2 feet......... Need a tank of ard 6 feet........... So you still want............ male are deep blue in colour and this of tang has a big hump on its for head once it is adult............

U mean like a LuoHan ?

Regards

[sherman]

Feed him raw garlic. Worked for my YT.

Bro,

U mean chop those garlic we have at home and feed it or buy garlic in bottle form from LFS?

Regards

[Dispar_Anthias]

Bro,

I have the ich and white spot problem with my powder blue and blue tang also.

Does feeding them with garlic help?

Any other thing I can do to prevent ich and white spot.

All other fishes in the tank ok.

Regards

Hey the 2 tangs you keep are very ich prone, think you should know that whjen you read up on them before buying(or have you not read up first ) Hey yes garlic is one way of prevention the others is to seperate the fish and give them as less stress as possible

hey blue tang will recover from icheasily and will get them on and off so don't worry but for the PBT the fish are verty delicate and hard to acclimitize so you might want to seperate it to a quarantine tank.

Hey this is my happy PBT

[Dispar_Anthias]

U mean like a LuoHan ?

Regards

No lah, just that it will have a nose like hump once it become adult definately not like luohan

[Dispar_Anthias]

No lah just that it will have a nose lie hump once it grow old.....

Hey this is a pic of adult vlamingii in a big tank

[Golden Tooth]

How big will a fully grown adult be?

[Dispar_Anthias]

How big will a fully grown adult be?

it will be around 1feet plus to 1/1/2 feet

[seahorse]

Finally , manage to get a presentable pic of my chevron tang . This baby had been

with me for 4 mths already .

[Golden Tooth]

Nice.

[blue.tang]

beri nice tang

[ai[k²]wan]

nice "tank"

[DeepBlue]

cool...always wanted one....but don't dare take risk....veri exp...

[seahorse]

Orange Bristle tooth , a seldom seen tang at LFS ...

[DeepBlue]

my wife's orange shoulder from CF.... cool looking tang...