Blue Eyed Tang - Spots Disappear?

[Ted_C]

When I first purchased my Blue Eyed Tang - it looked like this

Now (and I'm sorry but I dont have a picture) all of those colorations or dots come and go (but mostly its mostly solid colored instead of dotted).

Is this a sign of stress or relaxation you think? Is it a sign of incorrect food if a dotted tang loses it's dots?

 

[reef80]

My blue eye looks the same way too when I first had him. A year and half later all the dots are gone and the strips are all colored over. He has darker colors now and don't really show the contrast anymore. I thinks its normal...

 

[degibson84]

I thought i read somewhere that as they mature the body darkens and the spots go away

 

[rachenbrazil]

When grow up will loose the spots... Mine does lost the spots and now is striped

 

[Ted_C]

Thanks everyone.