ID help please
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Topic: ID help please
Posted By: MrNewbie
Subject: ID help please
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 10:55pm
Can somebody tell me what fish I have here? the yellow tang is obvious but the other?  And this one? I bought a tank with live rock, lots of majano and aptasia and some mushrooms and some awesome fish. Great equipment, beautiful fish but I have only had corals and a couple small fish before now ------------- Just a couple of glass boxes full of slimey things |
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Posted By: tileman
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 11:08pm
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All 3 are tangs, (surgeon fish) Yellow ,Purple and I cant tell the other from the picture, maybe a tomini ------------- 335G Reef TOTM. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2015/2/aquarium ReefKeepers TOTM Feb. 2012 http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index....k-of-the-month & |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 09 2007 at 11:08pm
| Purple tang and a Yellow eye tang or Palani tang. Just a guess. |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 12:01am
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In the first picture I can't tell what the first one is and the second one is a Yellow Tang, in the second picture is a Purple Tang. I would need a better picture of the first fish to have a better chance of an ID. It looks like a bristletooth tang such as a Tomini. Mike -------------  |
Posted By: Dion Richins
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 12:04am
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My Tomini has white fins with the back fin being orange. ------------- http://www.customaquariumfurniture.com" rel="nofollow - Bad "censored" Cabinets Best quality in the valley! He is one sexy bald guy, even with out a finger!(MAC) |
Posted By: MrNewbie
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 12:11am
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Is there anything I need to be aware of when moving this tank with the fish that would be out of the ordinary? I also have a red fairy wrasse and a hippo in the mix and another unidentified fish in the spilloff. The corals are a no brainer to me, but the fish are another story
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 12:22am
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Careful moving the surgeonfish due to the sharp "scalpel" fin at the base of the tail. They should all go in the tank the same day. That's all I can think of.
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: Dion Richins
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 1:08am
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Posted By: n o o d l z
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 1:17pm
| Its definitely not Tomini...Tomini is grey with orange fins, white tail. Really hard to tell but it's probably in the same family. |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 1:20pm
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It does look like the same family and I agree it is not a Tomini or a Yellow-eye (Kole)
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 8:19pm
Isn't that a backwards Tomini? All of them I have seen, including mine, have orange fins with the back one being white.
I think your's is a Inimot Tang.
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Holdencraft 33 wrote:Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: August 10 2007 at 8:47pm
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Posted By: adamschrage
Date Posted: August 13 2007 at 3:33pm
| I'm guessing the unidentified Tang is a Two Spot Bristletooth Tang (Ctenochaetus binotatus. I've been looking at them since I can't seem to find a Chevron tang for sale. |
Posted By: Aquatic Evolution
Date Posted: August 16 2007 at 5:20pm
| IT LOOKS LIKE A SUB- ADULT ATLANTIC BLUE TANG |
Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: August 16 2007 at 5:27pm
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Ah, I didn't think of that. It does look like a juvenile Atlantic Blue Tang. Cool fish!
Mike ------------- |
Posted By: adamschrage
Date Posted: August 17 2007 at 9:51am
I'm colorblind but I'm still going with my first guess 
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Posted By: adamschrage
Date Posted: August 17 2007 at 9:53am
Or it could be the blue tang
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: August 17 2007 at 10:36am
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That picture shows it pretty well. What do you think Robert. Is that your fish? Mike ------------- |
Posted By: MrNewbie
Date Posted: August 20 2007 at 10:19am
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That is the fish. Looks just like mine. Thanks guys.
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Posted By: MrNewbie
Date Posted: August 20 2007 at 10:24am
I got another cool picture of my hippo tang ofver the weekend
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Posted By: EagleEyez5
Date Posted: August 20 2007 at 10:54am
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That looks just like the one in my tank, did you sneak into my house and take a picture? ------------- http://www.highendcorals.com/"> 
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Posted By: MrNewbie
Date Posted: August 20 2007 at 11:54am
I figured we needed some funny posts other than the Sukie show summer picnic posts 
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