Scopas tang
Scopas tang
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The scopas tang (Zebrasoma scopas) is a brown Indo-Pacific surgeonfish with tall dorsal and anal fins that give it a distinctly disc-shaped outline, and fine pale speckling that shows up under good light. It is among the hardier tangs, which is why it turns up so often as somebody's first surgeonfish, and it is a tireless grazer that will work on nuisance algae all day.
Aquarium care
- Adults reach around 20 cm.
- Needs a mature aquarium with genuine swimming length and strong water movement.
- A herbivore first and foremost; offer dried marine algae or nori daily.
- Hardy by tang standards, but still susceptible to marine ich after a move.
- Territorial toward other Zebrasoma and similar-shaped fish.
- It does not eat corals.
Well suited to an established reef or fish-only system as the only tang, with clownfish, wrasses, gobies and cardinalfish for company. Add it once quieter fish have settled, and give it enough rockwork to graze over and retreat into.
Stock rotates with each shipment, and livestock is available for local pickup at our Lethbridge store. See the saltwater fish collection.
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