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yellow tang not looking too yellow
Hey all, hope someone out there can help me with this. I just picked up another tank and all it's contents, included are a dogfaced puffer, a pair of blue hippo tangs, and a yellow tang. From everything that I can find on the internet, and every yellow tang that I've ever seen, they are supposed to be a very bright/deep yellow. This tang is more of a pale yellow, almost white in colour or like a cream colour, it's fins are bright yellow, and it has a stripe down it's side that is also yellow, but the rest of the fish looks very light in colour. Does anyone know why this fish would be this colour? What may have caused it? Can I get it's deep yellow colour back? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks









300gallonacrylic- Number of posts: 62
Age: 31
Location: Ontario, Canada
Tank Size- Gallons : 300gallon, display with 2 ocellaris clowns, 2 maroon clowns, foxface, kole tang, yellow tang, purple tang, orange shoulder tang, regal blue tang, asfur angelfish, 2 sally lightfoot crabs, 3 emerald crabs, lots of blue leg hermits, tons of snails, 3 rose BTA(just keeps splitting), 2 green BTA, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, about 600 lbs of live rock, frogspawn, some zoo's and some mushrooms. 4-175w metal halides(soon to be triple 400w halides), 4-96w power compact actinics, moonlights, 2-berlin skimmers and a instant ocean skimmer as well, 3-marineland magnum 350 canister filters with bio-wheel
Registration date: 2009-01-08

Re: yellow tang not looking too yellow
Could be the stress of the move, poor diet with the previous owner, tank aggression at the old or new home....or it might just be the colour he has always been.
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Location: Kitchener
Tank Size- Gallons : 90 gal mixed reef & BC29
Registration date: 2008-12-06
Re: yellow tang not looking too yellow
i use to have a yellow tang, and when it was stressed the line on its side would turn white, the line on this one seem pretty yellow still.... but im am no expert

Jack- Number of posts: 115
Age: 19
Location: Fredericton N.B.
Tank Size- Gallons : 15 gallon fuge + 30 gallon nano reef with mantis shrimp
Registration date: 2009-03-10
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