Kole Yellow Eyed Tang
The yellow eye kole tang grows up to 7 inches general size specifications.
Kole yellow eyed tang. 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. Ocellaris clownfish 14 99 29 99. When in the juvenile state it has a yellow gold to tan color with striping and spots.
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A small sized yellow eye kole tang usually comes in the size of 2 3 inches medium variety about 5 inches and the larger ones reaching about 7 inches minimum tank size. Some juvenile specimens have a greenish yellow color with blue markings and faint dark stripes. Strigosus and the spotted bristletooth c.
The head region has many fine dots or freckles as i like to call them. Strigosus has an oval body shape with bold markings that change with maturity. The common name is pronounced a couple of different ways including coal eh or coal ee.
It grows to 5 7 inches 14 6 cm in the wild. Choat and axe 1996. Striatus are sometimes called kole yellow eye tang yellow eye tang or yelloweye surgeonfish.
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 kole yellow eye tang is known by many names including the striped bristletooth goldring bristletooth yellow eye tang and yelloweye surgeonfish. The kole tang has a yellow highlight around it s eyes with a purplish or brown body composed of horizontal stripes.
It has an oval shaped body with bold markings that change with maturity. The yellow eye kole tang prefers a tank of at least 100 gallons with plenty of places to hide swim. They are best kept by intermediate aquarists.
They mainly eat detritus which comprises of small algae instead of the filamentous algae devoured by other tangs. The yellow eyed kole tang male grows up to 7 1 17 cm however they grow up to a little over 5 5 in the first 4 years and then much slower after that. You must be logged in to post a review.
