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      • Elegance coral
      • Euphyllia
      • Favia
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      • Indophyllia
      • Lobophyllia
      • Micromussa
      • Scolymia
      • Symphyllia
      • Trachyphyllia
      • Turbinaria
    • SPS Corals
      • Acropora
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      • Cyphastrea
      • Gardinoseris
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      • Lithophyllon
      • Millepora/Fire Coral
      • Montipora
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      • Pavona
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      • yasha
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Barcode Gem Tang Returns to Marine Collectors
Jake Adams 1 month ago

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…

Jake Adams 1 month ago 0 0
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Three Of The RAREST Zebrasoma Videos: White, Gem and Tricolor Tangs!
Jake Adams Jun 2, 2017

With nearly three hundred videos on a myriad of topics, Reef Builders has one of the oldest aquariums channels on YouTube. In that time we’ve featured countless beautiful, rare and exotic a…

Jake Adams Jun 2, 2017 0 0
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Lined Gem Tang Is Truly One Of A Kind!
Jake Adams Feb 9, 2017

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 …

Jake Adams Feb 9, 2017 0 0
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The speciation, biogeography and hybridization of Zebrasoma
Lemon TYK Jun 29, 2015

The family Acanthuridae boasts of charismatic, charming and iconic reef fishes that are immediately recognizable both in the field and in the trade. All eighty or so species spanning the six various g…

Lemon TYK Jun 29, 2015 0 0
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Second ever hybrid gem tang collected in Mauritius
Jake Adams Jun 25, 2015

The gem tang is arguably the most coveted of all surgeonfish species, making the first ever documented gem tang hybrid quite a sensation. Another hybrid gem tang has been collected and we have even be…

Jake Adams Jun 25, 2015 0 0
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Gem tang hybrid could be the rarest surgeonfish ever
Jake Adams Jul 15, 2014

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…

Jake Adams Jul 15, 2014 0 0
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Tour de BlueHarbor – Part 2. Fixing a deepwater malady
Lemon TYK Aug 8, 2012

This is the second and final installment to the two part BlueHarbor tour visit. In this article, we visit one of Koji’s customers with perhaps the biggest and most impressive collection of deepw…

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Tricolor and gem tangs a plenty at Southwest Marines, UK
Jake Adams May 10, 2010

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…

Jake Adams May 10, 2010 0 0
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Jumbo Gem Tang splayed out in pix
Jake Adams Mar 26, 2009

You know, we’ve seen more than a handful of small gem tangs but the cost/desire ratio just hasn’t made us want one. However, now that we’ve seen these pics from a Just Rare Fish of w…

Jake Adams Mar 26, 2009 0 10
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