Black Tang with White Tail Fin???

[kschew1498]

Hi Guys

I just bought a Tang....from Sentosa Marine (Pasir Ris).....

Its shape is like a blue tang.....total black....with a scissors like white tail......

Was told it was a "tommini" or something like that.....couldnt remember how to pronouce it...... ....There were 2 different spieces there......

Should have learn about the fish first but my Mdm saw it and it was love at first sight to her....so bo pian....

It is eating pallet now and it swims like a blue tang......very fast.....

By the way Sentosa got quite a number of nice Power Black (white cheek), Chocolate, Kole and a couple of "unidentify" tangs......or should I say I dont know the name of the tang fish........ ....Check them out!

Anyway, need some help to identifiy this Black Tang fish......

[roidan]

Should be tomini tang....sentosa marine is known to bring in this tang

http://www.reefers.org/album/viewphoto.cfm?albumimageid=445

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSum...ame=tominiensis

[kschew1498]

Thanks Raymond....yes thats one of the fish he has it now......but the fish I bought was shape like a Blue Tang......and white tail fin.......

I must have mix up the names!!!!

[kelvinw]

Sentosa Marine (Pasir Ris).....May i know which area of pasir ris & address

[tineng]

errrr...tomini doesn't shape like a blue tang.....tomini are more elongated.....darn, they promise to call me when its in

guess by the time me go down tmr, no more left already.....

[lightningstrike]

errrr...tomini doesn't shape like a blue tang.....tomini are more elongated.....darn, they promise to call me when its in

guess by the time me go down tmr, no more left already.....

still quite a few tomini tangs left when i left last evening.

[kschew1498]

Sentosa Marine (Pasir Ris).....May i know which area of pasir ris & address

Aqua Fauna Centre 11 Pasir Ris Farmway 1......

[kschew1498]

Will try to take a picture of this joker tonight.....

[iori_del]

This tang is very expensive to me..

it is a very nice fish, i like it a lot

[decentkid]

could it be a monk tang?

Acanthurus gahhm

[kschew1498]

I found it....I found it!!!

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/acanthurTngs.htm

"Acanthurus thompsoni (Fowler 1923), the White-Tailed Surgeonfish, a good name for this species except for its populations in Hawaii which bear no white on their tail areas. Another name for this planktivore is Thompson’s Surgeonfish. Though not a striking beauty, this Whitetail tang is a good feeder and stays moderate small (to ten inches). Rarely imported into the trade. A Hawaiian specimen, one from the Cooks and Australia's northern coast pictured."

[kschew1498]

This tang is very expensive to me..

it is a very nice fish, i like it a lot

Do you mean the Tomini or the Thompsoni??

[iori_del]

Do you mean the Tomini or the Thompsoni??

the Tomini tang, coral farm is going for $75 per piece...

[kschew1498]

the Tomini tang, coral farm is going for $75 per piece...

!!!!!!

You can buy it at Sentosa cheaper!!