Coloring on Yellow Eye Kole tang???

[fish clown]

Im getting ready to order some fish and one of them is the Kole Yellow Eye Tang. If you look on live aquaria they have it in a beautiful reddish tan with white lines running down the body and blue lining the fins but on the site im acctuly ordering the fish from, blue zoo aquatics, the same fish looks brownish with green stripes. If you google it all sorts of colors of the exact same fish are in there. Do they just change color through out ther live? The only one I realy like is the coloring of the one on live aquaria. For those of you who have ordered this fish, what color do you generaly get?

 

[G4546]

Diet, lighting and roommates have a big influence on colour of the fish Shoot us a picture when you pick him up!

 

[trinidiver]

I've actually seen alot of different colors which you have also noted. Sometimes i think its the lighting they are under. I actually have one that came with the yellow ring missing fom around then eyes. I could be wrong

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

Diet, lighting and roommates have a big influence on colour of the fish

+1 when the fish is comfortable and in a good environment with good lighting they are a nice deep purple with lavender lines on the body and of course the yellow eye. They are very chromatic and can do lots of color changes and this genus is colored differently from juvies to adults to make it even more confusing. I just picked up a Hawaiian Kole a few months ago and it has been a very hardy fish.

 

[fish clown]

Ok thanks Right now I have 2 150 12 k( ?) and two 65 w 8000 ( ?) t 5s and am feeding the tank half mysis shrimp half reef and fish rods food. What would be the best combination of this that would give the look of the kole tang from live aquaria? Also how and what fish would affect the color?

 

[cwinn]

these kole tangs are one of the most varied tangs colorwise imo. every specimen has a different shade/pattern. some are lighter some are darker. if you are looking for a specific color kole tang i'd recommend only getting a wysiwyg or getting it from your lfs

 

[rssjsb]

I've had two, and they've both looked like what Kahuna Tuna describes. To me, they look like they're wearing silk pajamas.

 

[jim.crunk]

The Kole that I had seemed to change colors through the day. When lights first came on he typically was very light and was a very nice red with almost white lines later on. His eye's never seemed to change though, they seemed to always be a brilliant yellow.
Unfortunately, he was also the meanest most aggressive fish that I had. I actually had to give him away due to him being so aggressive.

 

[ezerasurfr]

When I "rescued" my Kole, he was pail with pink lines (Petco of course). Today (2 years later) he is purple with lavender and one of the fattest fish in my tank [his name is Nat King Kole ] Excellent fish. I feed mysis, green entree, rods food and my tangs always get 2 sheets of nori a day. Once a week I soak all food in garlic to support high immune system.

 

[fish clown]

Well I've actually been on a quick vacation in the smoky mountains that past week and while I was there I stopped at the Ripleys aquarium and in one of the humongous reef tanks there was one kole yellow eye tang that I saw and to be compleatly honest, of the hundreds of fish that were in there it was defenently up in the top three fish I saw in that tank which is saying quite a bit. It is just so different than the others with the stripes and the codors it has. It wasn't quite the coloring of the one on live aquaria but it was just about as sweet looking. This is definently the tang I'm getting after seeking it in person. By the way the Ripleys aquarium place is pretty sweet, especially the 500,000 gallon underwater tunnel with the big sharks all around you( I don't know of it's a shark or not but my fav thing I saw in there was deffenently the saw fish. I just read that it's related to rays and rays are related to sharks so???) so if you are ever around the gatlenburg/ pigeon forge are you should check it out.

 

[souperman]

Mine's dark purple/burgundy wit lavender stripes also. His eye has a deep yellow almost orange ring around his eye and orange/yellow tips on his fins. One of the prettiest fish in my tank and a great member of the CUC. He chases other fish around who are trying to do their business. The poop doesn't even hit the sand

 

[wheelman76]

My LFS sells two yellow eye kole tangs , one is from Hawaii and the other is from the Indian Ocean and the one from the Indian Ocean is about $20 more. Does anyone know the differences between these two?

 

[fish clown]

Well I know its been awhile but I am getting this tang in the coming up indmas frag swap through a site called fragswappers!!! Only ten more days! This is the color I'll be shooting for

 

[fish clown]

Well I have the tang but its still in hiding and it would be impossible to get a shot of it. It is starting to swim around in the back and hopefully the front here in the next cople days

 

[NYCEnglish]

Would love to see a pic. This is definitely on my list.

 

[the808state]

the blue lines come out more with blue lights. Koles are generally brown (various shades of brown) white/blueish lines, yellow eye, and sometimes the blue ring around the body. But health has a big role in it as well. the picture above is a kole under blue lights.

 

[fish clown]

Ugg, idk what happened!!!!!! When I woke up this morning I found the tang dead on the sand. It seemed to be doing well yesterday too. On a side note I'm fourteen years old and have had my tank over a year now my levels have been stable and all seems to be doing better than ever. The indmas frag swap was last weekend and I had corals and this tang reserved but I found out my church had a retreat the same weekend after I reserved all this do my mom picked it up while I was at the retreat. She said the tang looked awesome and healthy at the swap but when she acclimated it it looked kinda bad and was on its side. I showed her how to drip acclimate and she did that for 45min (I told her to donut 1hr and a half) but she had to go for my little brothers baseball game. There was one lighter spot under one of its fin after I pulled it out. I'll upload a pic here in a second.

 

[fish clown]

The white spots are not ick. The tang was one the sand bed and I guess I pulled up some sand with it.