Can anyone identify this tang

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Can anyone identify this tang and tell me more about it




http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/3091/11022007wk8.th.jpg (http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11022007wk8.jpg)

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http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/9353/11022007001qs6.th.jpg (http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11022007001qs6.jpg)

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http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/7449/11022007003qz9.th.jpg (http://img296.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11022007003qz9.jpg)

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more pics of the fish for u

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http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/9664/11022007012dr2.th.jpg (http://img127.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11022007012dr2.jpg)

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<a href="http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11022007004ip4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2154/11022007004ip4.th.jpg" border="0" /></a>

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http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5701/11022007005mw3.th.jpg (http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11022007005mw3.jpg)

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<a href="http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=11022007010rw6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7075/11022007010rw6.th.jpg" border="0" /></a>

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common guys

atleast reply

[Sk8r]

#1 looks like a yellow tang. The others look, if it has a yellowish eye/rim, and purple striping, like a kole. Try looking under 'tangs' in www.liveaquaria.com and you will find some good pix that will help you id tangs. Either of these requires about 75g to be halfway comfortable. Tangs are ich-prone, react quickly to unstable water conditions [they have no scales, and their skin is very vulnerable to infections and parasites like ich], and they're a high-motion fish that uses a fierce lot of oxygen [must have: a good skimmer] and that also must have greens in their diet, or they get a disease called hlle [head/lateral line erosion] that literally eats holes in their skin. Beautiful, personable fish, medium to very hard to keep---they vary by species. Koles and yellows are among the easiest keepers. These fish have an adult size of 10".

[nycpassat]

Looks like a Ringtail Surgeon

[Paintbug]

i would say a young Acanthurus nigricauda- Epaulette Tang

http://species.fishindex.com/species_6057acanthurus_nigricauda.html
http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/A/Acanthurus_nigricauda.asp

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thanks friends for the replies

[saltpeter]

Beat up sample of Acanthurus coeruleus .

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If you scroll down really fast it kind of animates :D