Desjardini Sailfin Tang

[Stevenliu9]

This is in memory of my late Desjardini... missed him dearly with so much personality and what a magnificent creature. One thing keeping reef aquarium is it truly teaches me to appreciate God's creations.
My acrylic painting on wood panel of the fish:
http://bluemarineart.com/2015/09/r-i-p-my-dear-desjardini/

 

[GoobieGoo]

Love it. As a fellow sailfin lover, sorry for your loss. They most definately have personality.

 

[borg]

I got a question ... how do you pronounce this name or what is the accepted term ?

 

[grizwalt333]

Love it. Mine was not a desjardini but I agree with you guys amazing fish with tons of personality.

 

[droth335]

Very nice! We love ours too - have had him/her for 6+ years.

 

[ca1ore]

One of my favorite fish. Mine is a ba$tard, however, and attempts to nail me with his tail when I get my arm too close. Does that count as having 'personality'? None of my previous ones did that.

 

[TangingOut]

I got a question ... how do you pronounce this name or what is the accepted term ?

Day zhar dani

In a french accent

 

[Stevenliu9]

Day zhar dani

In a french accent

someone needs to have a Youtube channel pronouncing all the "two name" names of all reef fish with either a French or a British accent- that would go viral among reef geeks quickly.

 

[TangingOut]

Only reason I said with a french accent is because Desjardin is a french surname and I'm assuming the tang is named after the person who dicovered it.

 

[crimsoncoral]

Sorry for your loss. I'm curious, what size tank did you have him in? (unrelated to his death)

 

[ca1ore]

BTW, to the OP ..... that is a really nice painting.

 

[borg]

i know feel i should call my sailfin "frenchy"

 

[Stevenliu9]

Crimsoncoral, I had him in a 180, which now I realized it would have been too small in time anyways. But his demise was of disease along with other 90% of all my fish in a hospital tank (75G). I will be much more careful with my fish selection in quantity, size, and quality this time around.
Ca1ore, thank you for the compliment. I will be posting a few more as I did a series of all the reef fish (some I have kept, some I can only drool over)

 

[crimsoncoral]

Crimsoncoral, I had him in a 180, which now I realized it would have been too small in time anyways. But his demise was of disease along with other 90% of all my fish in a hospital tank (75G). I will be much more careful with my fish selection in quantity, size, and quality this time around.
Ca1ore, thank you for the compliment. I will be posting a few more as I did a series of all the reef fish (some I have kept, some I can only drool over)

I asked because I'm planning a 180 build... And just curious.

 

[kmbyrnes]

They are beautiful fish. Sorry for your loss.
I had one in a 100 before I realized it was too small.
I have lots of smaller fish, but a Desjardini will be the first new addition to my current 10' tank build.

 

[desjardinii]

Your painting's very nice, well done.

 

[moriarty]

Love the painting! Very nicely done!