Settle a bet for me

[Crazysps]

I just recently when to the LFS and bought a fish labeled as a yellow eyed kole tang it is about the size of a quarter. I put it in my 75 gallon mixed reef and it has been doing very well eating all the algea. Now i thought that the colors on the fish were washed out because it had been eatting brine shrimp for the last month in a tank with no algea in it. As it got health it turned blue and yellow like this

http://www.pbase.com/clippo/image/58301706

Now i think this fish is a striped bristletooth and my brother says it is a juvinile yellow eyed kole tang and will turn its regular colors in a year or so. I want to know you opinion. What do you guys think. And if someone does have a adult striped bristletooth, are they as good looking as the kole?

 

[Crazysps]

The other question is: Is this just a juvinile Kole Tang Let me know guy.

Thanks

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

Can you post a picture of your Tang?

 

[Blazer88]

I don't think that's a Kole tang. Looks too blue to be a Kole.

 

[Crazysps]

The web site that i have provided is a spitting image of the tang I have, exactly. And also much nicer quality than i coud come up with.

Another thing is what will this fish look like when it does become an adult

 

[thor32766]

kole tangs dont change color like that. I have seen a ton of them about the size of a quarter and are the same colors as a full grown kole.

 

[Sk8r]

Not a kole.

 

[SDguy]

I thought juvi kole's are yellow, or is that just a color morph? I saw a small yellow one while snorkling in Hawaii.

 

[zemuron114]

juvi koles are yellowish.. but not all yellow. The tail is actually very yellow. Body is more a light brown with yellow hint to it.

Im sure you have the fish posted. Kole's dont usually look like any other fish... lol

 

[Amphiprion]

I would bet on a juvenile Ctenochaetus striatus.

 

[john37]

kinda looks like a clown tang to me

 

[ct_vol]

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, 9 times out of 10, its a duck...

If it looks exactly like the pic posted, then thats what it is... I have another option for you though... It could be a juvi Atlantic Blue Tang in the process of changing into an adult...

Juvi pic - http://www.marinedepotlive.com/atla...-tang---acanthurus-coeruleus-fish--tangs.html

Adult pic - http://www.marinedepotlive.com/atlantic-blue-tang---acanthurus-coeruleus-fish--tangs.html

 

[jessp]

to avoid any confusion why not just post a pic of y our fish, not a fish that looks like it online. i think that will help a lot just mho