Kole Yellow Eye Tang
The tang species ctenochaetus strigosus is known under many different english names such as kole tang yellow eye kole tang yellow eye tang goldeneye tang spotted surgeonfish bristletoothed surgeonfish goldring surgeonfish spotted surgeonfish slender toothed surgeonfish yellow eyed surgeonfish yelloweye surgeonfish goldring bristletooth and spotted bristletooth.
Kole yellow eye tang. This video is all about the hardest working fish in my tank my yellow eye kole tang. Most descriptions deem this tang to be pretty peaceful even by tang standards but other reefers expe. Ctenochaetus strigosus known by the common names kole tang or spotted surgeonfish or goldring surgeonfish or yellow eyed tang is a marine reef tang in the fish family acanthuridae which is endemic to oceana.
The variation of this species is quite attractive with a light colored body and many blue horizontal stripes 20 or so. Tangs are amongst the most susceptible fishes to hlle head and lateral line erosion disease. The yellow eyed tang or kole tang is very similar to its indian ocean counterpart the indian gold ring bristletooth or spotted yellow eye tang c.
Indian ocean specimens bear spots rather than the distinctive stripes. It grows to 5 7 inches 14 6 cm in the wild. The common name is pronounced a couple of different ways including coal eh or coal ee.
The kole tang has a yellow highlight around it s eyes with a purplish or brown body composed of horizontal stripes. In my 125g saltwater tank i have a kole eyed tang. Some juvenile specimens have a greenish yellow color with blue markings and faint dark stripes.
Sick yellow tang nutritional. More s the shame for this situation as keeping tangs. Like the chevron tang the kole tang or yellow eyed tang is also commonly referred to as the comb tooth or bristle tooth tang owing to their kind of eating habits.
Other nutritional deficiency syndromes indeed its uncommon to not be able to observe some manifestation of long term lack of nutrition amongst these fishes.
