Maintenance difficulty: This fish is fairly difficult to keep. They seem to be more delicate than other tangs.
Maintenance: It is important that you feed Tangs a good variety of live, frozen, and prepared formula foods with emphasis in vegetable and spirulina. Best to feed small amounts several times a day for the best variety of food for the tang...your success with the fish will be much better!
Habitat: Found throughout the Pacific ocean mostly in reefs.
Foods: Mainly found grazing on algae. Will accept brine shrimp, mysis, plankton, and krill.
Social Behaviours: Usually found singly, they form territories in shallow water areas of a reef. In the aquarium the can get territorial especially if another tang is in the tank with an already established tang.
Sexual differences: Unknown.
Light: Found in areas with sunlight so it would appreicate as much light as possible.
Breeding: I can't say I have heard it done yet. But if you want to try go for it!
Temperature: Normal temperatures for salt water fish is between 75 and 79 degrees.
Length of fish: Adults can grow to 10 inches.
Minimum Tank Size: A minimum 75 gallon aquarium I recommended. Be prepared, this guy gets quite large!
Water Movement: No special requirements here.
Water Region: Swims all over the aquarium snf likr most tangs has it's choosen territory.
Availability: This fish is usually readily available and is somewhat expensive.
