My new Powder Brown

[burton61775]

Just go this yesterday At LFS and got him in quaratine, Hes looks to be very healthy and already Ate fourmla 1 pellets for me like the LFs said he was eating. I know these are fragile fish, but this particular LFS i got him at only have the best fish in town in most cases. Sorry about the blurriness, sometimes my camera takes good pics and other times it doesn't.

 

[Andrew]

Great tang, but thats not a powered brown tang. Thats a white cheek tang. Acanthurus japonicus

 

[burton61775]

How you figure look exactually like this one?

http://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_1...ategory=4&category_search=61&root_parent_id=4

 

[tsquad]

Yeah...Acanthurus japonicus. The other fish is Acanthurus nigricans. Both have been called Powder Browns, and there are varying opinions as to which thrives better in captivity.

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

 

[burton61775]

thanks for the info Tsquad, I knew about the gold rim but i have always known and seen the one i have as the Powder Brown. Didn't now about the thrid

 

[JENnKerry]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6559766#post6559766 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Andrew
Great tang, but thats not a powered brown tang. Thats a white cheek tang. Acanthurus japonicus

The white cheek tang is Acanthurus Nigricans. The powder brown is Acanthurus Japonicus. The one in the picture is Acanthurus Japonicus. But both are commonly sold as powder browns.

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

It is also called the white face Tang , Japanese Tang and Gold Rim Tang [which is what I call mine] Awesome fish!!

 

[Andrew]

Acanthurus nigricans

Acanthurus japonicus

 

[fancyfish]

all the better. the white cheek apparently does better in captivity

 

[LauraCline]

Even the blurry pics are enough to see he's healthy and beautiful, congratulations!