280g Inwall

[Delphinus]

Picktchoors!!!

There is a weird dampening effect over some of the corals that completely prevent a picture being in focus of them, no matter what. The tort in particular, even the photos are kind of hard to look at. Guess I need to keep experimenting to find the ideal settings. But here are some non-throwaways from tonights efforts..

Red planet!


Cali tort


Supposed to be a blue polyp stylo but seems to be slowing turning pink..


Rainbow stylo but also seems to be pinkifying..


Dunkin' duncans.. (danke!)


Acans..


MOAR ACANS!!



Lavender tang, totally underrated tang in my opinion..


Cleaner shrimp plus survivors of caulerpa damaged Stylo from my 40g. Effecting a recovery (I can see growth) and has gone from brown to .. um .. moar pink. Good think I have a thing for pink stylos!!


Male bellus angel


Potter's angel


Growing fast and darkening up (had bleached a little in a pellet incident over the summer in my 40g)


Canary wrasse


Purple sherbet! Yum yum.


Insert Monty Python accent: Anyone else have something better to do than march up and down the square! The .. PIANO?! Right-oh, off you go .... (Lieutenant tang)


And this girl needs to be moved over soon. Still chumming with the butterflies and eel in the 115g for now:


Thanks for looking

[christyf5]

Great photos Tony! Go SPS go!!

[fishytime]

those shots are more than acceptable mang.......in fact they are bordering on kick-ass

[fishoholic]

Looks great Tony I also love lavender tangs, very pretty imo.

[es355lucille]

I am lik'in everything you have there Tony! Wow your fish are beautiful!

[lastlight]

Those photos look great man and so do your colors! Game on!

[Lance]

By Gosh Tony, I think you've got it! SPS thriving in your tank. The curse is broken!

Colours look great!

[smokinreefer]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Picktchoors!!!

Lavender tang, totally underrated tang in my opinion..


Thanks for looking

beautiful fish.
but, they sure dont look like that in the stores.
i'm guessing it is showing mature coloration? probably didnt look like that as a juvenile eh?

tank is looking good buddy!

[Delphinus]

It might be the adult colouration? Although he's actually looked like that at the store when he was maybe 3". So if it is a juvy/adult thing then this one turned adult colours pretty early. Mind you I have seen orange shoulder tangs at 3" and you'd think they'd still be the juvenile yellow at that size so I guess adult colours can come pretty much whenever they feel like it in the fish world.

A couple things that I have observed however between seeing lavenders in the stores, other peoples tanks, and in Hawaii - there do seem to be two major colour morphs. A darker one like this one, and a lighter one where it's more of a pinkish grey in the body with a purple/pink/lavender border along the fins and so on. (I'll see if I can dig up a photo.)

But, lighting can play tricks on you. I've had people see this fish in person exclaim that they didn't even realize the fish was that colourful because between swimming so fast and it being hard to look at because he won't sit still, and the light needing to shine on him just right, he can appear like a brown colourless tang unless you're really looking at him closely.

Of course there's also that fish store tanks are stressful places for fish with seldom the most optimal lighting conditions to showcase subtle colours on fish, so that could be a factor too maybe..

[fishytime]

Ya I get that with my chevron too..... Most times he looks kinda drab and plain, but when the light hits him just right you can see the color and patternation on him.....sweet fish none the less Tony