Unknown Tang

[Ricko]

I was watching a documentary yesterday and saw a tang (school) of which i have never seen before.
The best description i can give is it looked like Acanthurus family, black (very dark colour anyway), blue rim through dorsal section and the spine near the tail was yellow.
Have tried countless searches on the net and can't find anything. Has anyone seen this fish before and if so do you have any info on it???

 

[artemis1]

blue planet?

 

[Ricko]

The show was called Wild Caribbean.

 

[artemis1]

The show was called Wild Caribbean.

hmm never heard of it. on blue planet they had a school of brown tangs.

 

[Ricko]

Yeah this fish definately not a brown tang.

 

[Otto_VonBacon]

Like this? http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/tangs/images/GoldRimmedTangWMTa_U53.jpg

 

[Ricko]

Like this? http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/tangs/images/GoldRimmedTangWMTa_U53.jpg

No but same idea. No other colours, where the gold rim is imagine that all blue and yellow spine but tail still same colour as body. Looked really black, and if it wasn't quite black is still very much darker than the gold rim tang.
I have never seen this fish before yesterday, must be rare in the aquarium trade.

 

[Ricko]

FOUND IT!!!!
What is this Tang??? I want one DESPERATELY!!!

 

[Otto_VonBacon]

Wow, that's beautiful. I'll take one please

 

[spring007]

that tang looks awesome!