Show me your Mimic Tangs!

[tonyespinoza]

Considering one of these... don't see many available online, and would love to see more pics if anyone has one and has a pic handy!

 

[xxtriggermanxx]

not a great picture,but by far one of my favorite fish!

 

[tonyespinoza]

great tang! just to be clear -- this is the lemon peel mimic (Acanthurus pyroferus), not the eibli mimic (Acanthurus tristis), correct?

 

[xxtriggermanxx]

correct !

 

[tonyespinoza]

as discussed in the other threads -- is he a great algae grazer?

how big is he? how long have you had him?

 

[xxtriggermanxx]

A+ for rock cleaning.Sadly I no longer have it. It died during my tank upgrade. was being housed at my lfs(along with all my other fish) and they had an electrical outage overnight . I lost everything . had him about six years maybe more. he was a little over 6 1/2 inches long. I still want to get another one some day.

 

[tonyespinoza]

ugh! so sorry to hear that! thanks for sharing the info. i will be on the hunt for one now thanks to your positive experience.

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

Heralds angel mimic tang, very small at about 1 1/2"

Heres an intermediate pic, starting to get darker and getting the lunate tail of the adult

More recent pic, about 4 1/2"

 

[tonyespinoza]

beautiful!

 

[Grouperhead]

Awesome photo series Kahuna.

Are mimic's aggressive at all? One of the lfs near me had a nice large one that was just beautiful. It was in a 180g tank though and really being aggressive towards a medium sized blonde naso. Just curious after witnessing that...never heard of them being very aggressive so I've assumed it was just that one specimen.

 

[xxtriggermanxx]

Mine was in with a 7 inch sailfin and at one time a 6 inch hippo.It was not aggressive to them but could definitely hold it's own with the sailfin. sailfin thought he owned the tank.

 

[tonyespinoza]

any issue combining the mimic with a powder blue? i know they are both Acanthurus. (i've seen folks do this in larger tanks, but my display is only 200g...?)

 

[xxtriggermanxx]

Only piece of advise I would give is add them at the same time. I added my black,yellow, and chevron all at the same time into my 265. with no issues. On a side note it's funny when you say only a 200 gallon . Years ago that would have been a monster of a tank!

 

[tonyespinoza]

yup - 200g feels like a monster to me coming from a 50... it's humbling to see the 450g tanks on the SPS forum! my tank is shallow -- so even at 200g, it's basically 5' by 4' with a lot of open rock work. i'll post pics when it's all running. at the moment i'm still stabilizing my lighting/chilling situation before moving on to stocking.

 

[mborn]

Here is mine.

 

[tonyespinoza]

beautiful! are you keeping pink squares with lyretail or are those PS females?

 

[mborn]

Thanks. I’m keeping PS with lyretails. I have 1 male, 1 female PS, and 1 male, 3 female lyretails.

 

[Machiel]

This is mine, about 2"
Had some problems during the first 4 weeks but now its eating like a pig and very peaceful.
I'll try to make a better photo of it today.

 

[Grouperhead]

Awesome looking tang Machiel. Looks to be an eibli or vroliki mimic.

 

[Reeftanks6]

Very nice chocolate tangs! Use to have one but i did not go so well! One of my favorite tangs!