Kole Tang?

[LittleYellowTang16]

ok i work at a petstore and today we got our fish shipment in, the weird thin is we got this kole tang i have never seen one nor heard of them before, its brown with white lines, i wish i had a picture but i don't weird, are they good if fishtanks?

[steve1s]

Kole Tangs (http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=345) are great fish. Good at film algae control on the glass as well as other nuisance algaes. They actually leave "lip" marks on the glass :shock:

I would not recommend them for new tank nor small ones. They are endless swimmers and require alot of swimming/grazing area. Probably more so than other tangs. They are also very skiddish and need many hiding places.

They can be extremely hard to acclimate and would be best kept in a mature tank that could provide it with natural grazing foods until it becomes acustom to it's surroundings and accepts prepared foods. I have seen them take several weeks before they take to store foods.

Cheers
Steve

[LittleYellowTang16]

wow their so pretty!
i am glad i made him some hiding room haha, thanks for the information :)