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Originally Posted by Delphinus
Looks great. Just curious, you say "almost" positive - what's the hesitation, are there features that make you sometimes think otherwise?
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For one the lack of information, after tones of searches I'm getting lots of fragmented results. I'm pretty sure this is an actual Orange-Socket Surgeonfish but if anyone has a Marine fishes book to ID it would be greatly appreciated.
Most of the photos I'm finding are in the ocean @ full size and with bad resolution so its hard to be sure. The tang in the above photo has yellow permeated through its Dorsal fin and what looks like a blue pigment on the anal fin while mine lacks both. I'm also seeing some differences in the eye color (Which could be the flash) but my fish has a much more pronounced orange color around the eye (aka Orange-Socket lol).
To confuse me even more the tang changes color from Gray to silver to white to black and all combination in-between.