Several weeks ago we peered into one of our reef tanks to notice that something was not quite right with one of our gem tangs. The medium sized Zebrasoma gemmatum specimen had been in our care fo…
Barcode Gem Tang Returns to Marine Collectors
Yellow tangs have piebalds, scopas tangs have koi variants, and now it seems that the highly desirable gem tang has its own variant called the Barcode gem tang. The barcode Gem tang is a special varia…
Unboxing the Motherlode of Rare and Exotic Fish [video]
For years we’ve wrote about, photographed and filmed some of the rarest tropical reef fish in the world, often by visiting the right marinelife dealers, reefs or private tanks. One of the bigges…
These Four Rare Fish Make For An Incredible Madagascar Biotope Aquarium
The Indian Ocean is one of the least explored ecoregions of the world, and madagascar in particular is nearly a black hole of information when it comes to ornamental aquarium fish. Thankfully in recen…
Lined Gem Tang Is Truly One Of A Kind!
We’ve written so many cool stories about tangs and surgeonfish over the years – there must be a hundred articles on rare species, koi tangs, aberrations and hybrids. It’s definitely …
Gem tang hybrid could be the rarest surgeonfish ever
If you thought a gem tang was rare, just wait until you get a good look at this very unique surgeonfish just captured in Mauritius. At first glance the little Zebrasoma looks like a scopas tang, Zebra…
Tropical Marine Centre photo confirms a surge in gem tang supply
For the last several weeks now we’ve been hearing reports that there has been a spike in the availability of gem tangs. One international marine fish wholesaler after another have confirmed rece…
Tricolor scopas tang video of a large captive specimen swimming calmly at Southwest Marines
The Tricolor tang we shared with you a couple of weeks back was cooperative for both the still and video cameras. It took a while for this large captive specimen living at Southwest Marines to relax w…
Tricolor and gem tangs a plenty at Southwest Marines, UK
Southwest Marines was the first all marine aquarium store we visited in the UK and we must say it was quite a pleasant surprise to round the corner and spot LED lighting, two gem tangs, one tricolor t…
Rare Fish video collection
Here is a gratuitous, end of the week, rare fish video collection to help everyone put a good cap on the end of the week. The videos we have for you this fine friday include a true map puffer, wrought…