Acanthurus polyzona, aka the Zebra Tang from Mauritius and the Western Indian Ocean has been a book fish that we thought we would never see with our own eyes for so long, we had all but given up ever seeing one in…
A yellow Scopas Tang that’s even brighter than a Yellow Tang
The ubiquitous and staple Zebrasoma scopas (Scopas, or Brown Tang) is so variable that over the years we’ve seen aberrations and variations running the gamut from Koi types, ghost white, tricolored, dirty yellow and almost everything else in-between. While dirty…
Ghostly scopas tang shows aberration of both skin and eyes
A newly caught Zebrasoma scopas in Singapore is showing some ghostly resemblance to the infamous white-yellow tang, Casper. While not nearly as stark white as his cousin Casper, this new white Zebrasoma character started out nearly completely white with hints of…
Video of Casper the white tang shows how startlingly awesome this fish is
Casper the white tang is an iconic all-white specimen of Zebrasoma flavescens which is the pride and joy of World Wide Corals in Orlando Florida. A couple years back when Casper was a greenhorn to aquarium life, we got a chance…
Bandit surgeonfish: Black face regal blue tang is a very interesting masked mutation
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.…
Friendly unicorn tang allows The Hand to pick at him like a cleaner shrimp
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiZAh-WNMdw[/youtube] 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…
Acanthurus polyzona, a little known species similar to convict tangs
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…
Powder blue tang hybrid with Acanthurus bariene is a unique one-of-a kind surgeonfish
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…
Regal Blue Tang can spawn successfully at home
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…
Naso tergus, a new surgeonfish species recently described from Taiwan
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…
