Yellow Eyed Kole 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 they mainly eat detritus which comprises of small algae instead of the filamentous algae devoured by other tangs.
Yellow eyed kole tang. Females initially grow faster however males catch up and pass them in length as they become adults. It s been in there for 24 hours and the yellow tang won t stop going. The kole tang has a yellow highlight around it s eyes with a purplish or brown body composed of horizontal stripes.
Striatus are sometimes called kole yellow eye tang yellow eye tang or yelloweye surgeonfish. Strigosus has an oval body shape with bold markings that change with maturity. I have a 90g tank with a pair of cardinals pair of clowns peacock wrasse yellow tang around 12cm and a recently added kole eyed tang about 4cm.
Bennett 1828 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. Aiptasia eating filefish 49 99 69 99. Be the first to review yellow eye kole tang cancel reply.
It grows to 5 7 inches 14 6 cm in the wild. Strigosus and the spotted bristletooth c. The yellow eye kole tang grows up to 7 inches general size specifications.
The male yellow eyed kole tang will be larger and may demonstrate some color change during courtship. 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. Ocellaris clownfish 14 99 29 99.
Chalk bass 24 99 39 99. 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. You must be logged in to post a review.
The kole tang is most often collected from hawaii for the aquarium trade and is highly sought after because of the kole tang s constant algae grazing reef tank friendliness and good demeanor. As a juvenile it has a yellow gold to tan colored body with stripes and spots. I added in the new tang and the yellow tang has been going after it ever since.
