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Adam Blundell 
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Posted: September 05 2004 at 8:21pm |
Okay feel free to post a pic of a fish cooler than this one. Or maybe just your favorite fish. Anyway, check out this rare color morph of a yellow tang.
No, there is no way I can get you one, so don't ask...
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Posted: September 05 2004 at 9:34pm |
I never thought about color morphs. Was it swimming with its mates or alone, like an outcast? What if Pliny meant that he found the smallest parts of the natural world even more fascinating than the whole? Was he a microbilogist or microzoologist...you know a tiny Zookeeper or featherweight Biology Teacher? 
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Posted: September 05 2004 at 9:47pm |
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Nearly an albino yellow tang... WOW!!! That's really cool!!!
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Posted: September 05 2004 at 10:46pm |
I agree, it is really cool, but Albino? not likely! They die young. I learned last year that the "Albino" rainbow trout as some people call the ones I'll see tomorrow in Trial Lake, are not actual albino, but a simple repeatable color morph.  I believe they are called Golden Rainbow, but I could be wrong It's my understanding that a true Albino has no color pigment, the eyes are pink because of blood and the lack of pigment. Pigment is a protection against the lethal effects of radiation, especially UV.  
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Posted: September 06 2004 at 7:23am |
Mark- my boss shot the photo, not me.
As for Pliny here's my response- "That which takes place on the smallest levels is neither novel, unique, nor impressive. However, the accumulation of such matters is marvelous."
This tang is actually a color morph. There are a few of them, and they do reproduce. It appears to be a non-lethal genetic condition.
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Posted: September 06 2004 at 9:19pm |
Well, since you opened it up to "Favorite fish" here is the new star of my FOWLR tank, my new favorite fish.
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Posted: September 07 2004 at 8:46am |
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Was it swimming with its mates or alone, like an outcast?
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Mark here is a pic of another xanthic that another friend of mine took recently. He was swimming with the rest of the tangs.
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Posted: September 07 2004 at 9:04am |
It's a Michael Jackson fish!
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Posted: September 07 2004 at 11:03am |
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That is just too cool!
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Posted: April 19 2006 at 10:09pm |
I just bought one of these color morphs of yellow tang it looks alot like the one in the second picture. I am so excited.... 
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Posted: April 19 2006 at 10:11pm |
Man that is cool. I've been pondering getting one for my wife. I'm just not sure I can take how bad I would feel if it died.
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Posted: April 19 2006 at 10:19pm |
Adam Blundell wrote:
Man that is cool. I've been pondering getting one for my wife. I'm just not sure I can take how bad I would feel if it died.
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I thought about it for a couple days before I bought him, I have as good of system as anyone and I know I can give him a good home. He will be in QT until my new tank is finished cycling. I will post a pic in a couple days after he settles in.
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Posted: April 19 2006 at 11:11pm |
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Care to share the price tag?
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Posted: April 19 2006 at 11:37pm |
adam, don't you think you should work on getting the tank set up before you think about buying fancy fish for it? btw, all the moonlights you saw today are almost perfect, i think i might add 2 more on each end when i get back in october though, i'll have to decide after living with these for a while!
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Posted: April 20 2006 at 1:28am |
I like it much better than the all-yellow tang.
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Oh, um, I liked it a lot better before I read that. 
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Posted: April 20 2006 at 8:33am |
adam, don't you think you should work on getting the tank set up before you think about buying fancy fish for it?
Nope, I'm planning the tank around what she wants to keep. That's how it should be. 
all the moonlights you saw today are almost perfect
I think in your tank you should refer to them as twilights. That much light can't be called moon light.
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Posted: April 20 2006 at 12:56pm |
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Ummm, it was the most expensive fish I have ever bought...does that help? More than my black tang.... It should look really good swimming around in my new 1500 gallon reef tank.
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Posted: April 20 2006 at 1:20pm |
I know some people sell dyed corals - maybe I should start bleaching yellow tangs and sell them on ebay .
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