RVS Fishworld needs to tap on the brakes a little bit because they’re fishing up hybrid and aberrant fish so often they’re starting to make them seem common! Just last week we had to agglomerate四个不同的奇数进入一个帖子,几周前是hybrid suregonfish, a month ago it was thehybrid blueface angelfish, and now we’ve got a super interesting ‘desaturated’ Panda tang to share with the rare fish fanciers reading this.
We’ve never been super huge fans of the mimic tang,Acanthurus pyroferus,由于这些鱼在试图模仿各种侏儒的人的绑住物种时看起来很棒,但是随着它们成熟,它们的外观变得大且柔和,尽管它们仍然是一种非常吸引人的鱼。然而,RVS Fishworld刚刚揭示的新型模拟唐的白色标本是一个真正非常独特的标本,具有非常吸引人和引人入胜的色彩和图案。
The large nearly adultAcanthurus pyroferus总体上是白色的,但深色,几乎是黑色的背鳍,深色的眼睛,g板的黑色标记仍然可见。这种特征的组合通常归因于“白细胞”,其中动物具有partialloss of pigment throughout the body but not in the eye, which neatly describes this new mimic tang.
We sincerely prefer this partially white leucistic fish to specimens that are completely white because you know that the dark fins of this mimic tang will make a great contrast to this fish under good lighting, especially in a reef tank. Unlike the golden xanthic undulated triggerfish which almost always become darker shortly after collection, and koi tangs which can vary a lot over time, we suspect that this fish will stay mostly this color in an aquarium environment.
The combination of a white body with black fins, black eyes, black gills and black lips really reminds us of a panda’s color swatch which is more noticeable in the video below than in the pictures above. The unique color pattern of the Panda Mimic Tang is truly unlike anything we’ve ever seen before and we are certain that this fish will be a striking specimen in whatever aquarium it ends up calling its forever home.