What kind of tang is this?

[jackson6745]

I bought this from fishtown about 4 months about. It was marked as a "rare" baili blue tang. This fish is almost black, doesn't look like a blue tang to me. It actually looks more like a kole but the coloration is different. What do you think?

 

[NYPDFrogman]

it's a stripped bristle tooth tang. I have one I bought it from House. it has some orange dots on head and orange strips coloration is on the faint side. dark fish. yes looks like a Kole

 

[marrone]

Rich it looks like a Blue line tang, I have one in my tank for years now. Mine is pretty aggressive and attacks everything in the tank. I have some picture of it at home, a little blurie because he moves around quite a bit and doesn't like the camera.

 

[stingnyc]

is a blue line the same as a atlantic blue?

 

[marrone]

No very different. The Blue line tang is in the same family as the Kole tang. Most of the tangs in this groups looks vey similar with either different color stripes on the body, dots around the head and body and marking around the eyes, where some have the yellow ring others have a blue ring and others just plain eye. They all have similar shapes and should have longer lyrtails than others. They usually only get about 4"-8" or so as the Atlantic blue tang gets very large.

 

[stingnyc]

thanks mike...

 

[NYPDFrogman]

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...refox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s&sa=G

 

[House of Laughter]

great link Frank - yeah, Jackson, it's in the bristletooth family

Enjoy it, they are nice foragers

House