My New Fish!

[Kendall]

 

[howze01]

Is that a juvie Vlamingi? Pretty cool looking fish!

 

[Kendall]

Unicorn. I spent some time watching him before I bought him. Very pretty fish, was eating at the store and swimming very gracefully and just seemed un-stressed.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

How big is your tank?

 

[Awibrandy]

He/she is beautiful!! Enjoy!

How big a tank is it going in to?


Hahaha, you beat me to it J.

 

[rkaragozler]

I'm sorry but that looks like a vlamingi to me also.
here is a good read on unicorn tangs.
http://saltwater.tropicalfishandaquariums.com/Tangs/BluespineTang.asp

 

[MIKE NY]

How big is your tank?

X3....beautiful fish

 

[Fishluva513]

Def a vlamingii


Matty'sCornerAquariums

 

[jaa1456]

Def a vlamingi and I hope you have at least a 6 foot tank and 300 gallons plus. Those get pretty big.

 

[Kendall]

Is that a juvie Vlamingi? Pretty cool looking fish!

Yes, it is!. I thought it was vlamingi but it was labeled unicorn so I didn't question it. Found this page from a search, scroll down to see the juv. Thanks for the clarifacation!

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/tangs/VlamingiTang.php

He is in a 325

 

[Kendall]

In that write up they also call it a bignose unicorn.

 

[rkaragozler]

Yes it does.
The forehead of the adult Vlamingi forms a bulbous rounded protrusion, much less of a horn than many of other unicornfish, and they have very tall dorsal and anal fins.
It's amazing how many names they can give a species of one particular fish.