Some minor mutations in reef fish might give a specimen an extra bar, a broken stripe, or a weird inflection on the overall color but this black face regal blue tang has a mutation which adds a lot of character. Paracanthurus hepatus normally has a black body marking that extends just to the eye, but Read More

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Let’s face it, surgeonfish aka tangs are really friendly and inquisitive fish, especially the members of the Naso genus. This Naso brevicornis has been in captivity for ten years during which time it has become aware that people outside the tank are not scary, but instead are good for food, cleaning up the tank and filling Read More

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Acanthurus polyzona is a very seldom seen fish that closely resembles the obscenely common Acanthurus triostegus, more commonly known as the Convict Tang. Unlike the Convict Tang, A. polyzona is a Western Indian Ocean species and can be found in Mauritius, Madagascar, the Reunion islands and surrounding locales. Divergence and speciation probably accounted for the Read More

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Acanthurus leucosternon, more commonly known as the powder blue surgeonfish is a rather promiscuous species as far as surgeonfishes go. Although hybrids between surgeonfishes are uncommonly documented, there are some well known examples involving the powder blue surgeonfish. South Africa’s Oceanseekers scored what appears to be, according to them, a hybrid between Acanthurus leucosternon and Read More

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It seems that breeding news comes in spurts.  While the vast majority of marine fish have never been spawned in captivity, with even a smaller fraction being reared, it is undeniable that the early 21st Century is proving to be the next rennaisance in tropical marine aquaculture.  With news of Regal Tangs possibly being reared Read More

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Naso tergus is the newest species of surgeonfish which was described from specimens collected around Taiwan. The new Naso species along with Acanthurus nigros are the two latest additions to the family Acanthuridae. However unlike A. nigros which was differentiated based on genetics, Naso tergus was described based on a distinct body shape and morphology. Read More

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While details are sparse, news broke today of reports out of Taiwan claiming success in the captive propagation of the Hepatus Blue Tang, Paracanthurus hepatus.  This species has been “rumored” to have been captive bred for many years, but historically these purportedly “captive bred” fish always wind up being what we’d call “tank-raised”; small juveniles Read More

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Acanthurus nigros is not a ‘new’ species but yet it has now been resurrected to name a gentically distinct yet identical-looking species to Acanthurus nigroris. Acanhturus nigros is the name that was originally used for the Bluelined Surgeonfish when it was first described back in 1853. Over a hundred years later Jack Randall revised the Read More

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The large mutated tricolor scopas tang just pulled up in Bali by Neptune Fish is the nicest tricolor surgeonfish we’ve seen since we featured the nice tricolor scopas tang from Southwest Marines, UK. This particular tricolor scopas has a striking yellow edge to its dorsal and anal fin giving the outline of this fish the Read More

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Ok we know you’re probably sick of white tangs over the last couple weeks but this one is different because it’s a scopas tang from the Indian Ocean. The images of this near-solid white Zebrasoma scopas come to us from Abyss Aquatics, an aquarium specialty store in the UK that carries a full line of Read More

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