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[luntiz]

Thats good to hear.

 

[Reeftanks6]

lol he has gotten a little weight but not much. I am feeding a little more just to fatten everyone up more. The convict is the only one thats skinny all my other fish are pretty well fattened up.

 

[OrionN]

He may have parasites in him. If he eats well for a month or two, he should have gain more weight. Good luck with him.

 

[Reeftanks6]

Thanks i will see in a couple of weeks if he starts to fatten up.

 

[Tang Salad]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12989073#post12989073 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tang Salad
Does anyone know how many different Tang species there are?

Anyone? I guess I could go to Fishbase and count them all, but...

 

[Reeftanks6]

ill take a guess and say 40

 

[kar93]

In this thread I have counted 4 genus' but this is only up to page 22 of the first part. These are
·Acanthuridae - 12 species
·Naso - 4 species
·Zebrasoma - 5 species
·Ctenochaetas - 3 species

But there are more ,so in this thread there are around 24 species altogether that I have counted but like I say there are more.

 

[Tang Salad]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12990496#post12990496 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reeftanks6
ill take a guess and say 40

Thanks! My guess is that it's over a hundred. WAY over...

 

[Reeftanks6]

yea probabaly over a hundred.

 

[Tang Salad]

Well it looks like I'll need to do the busywork myself.
Here's just the Acanthurus list...

I'll count them when I get back from work today.

 

[Reeftanks6]

Thats a lot but from looking real quick some of them are repeated unless there all different.

 

[kar93]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12990537#post12990537 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tang Salad
Well it looks like I'll need to do the busywork myself.
Here's just the Acanthurus list...

I'll count them when I get back from work today.

I'll count them for y'.

 

[Tang Salad]

Yes, many of those are repeats.

 

[Reeftanks6]

so you cant count the repeats.

 

[Reeftanks6]

Cause from what we can see we have no evidence that there different other then there name and the repeat thats there.

 

[Tang Salad]

Right.

According to Animal-world.com
"The Acanthuridae family consist of 6 genera and about 72 species. "

 

[Reeftanks6]

wow thats a lot. So we got
Acanthuridae-75

 

[Tang Salad]

Did you just change your avatar...or am I seeing Tangs everywhere I look??? :lol:

 

[Reeftanks6]

for Zebrasoma i can think of off the top of my head are
Zebrasoma-6

 

[Tang Salad]

But the Zebrasome Genus is included in the Acanthuridae Family.