Data:
- Maximum fish size: 20 cm (7.9″)
- Temperature tolerance range: 22°C – 28°C
- Minimum aquarium volume: ~ 500L [132 gal]
- Advancement level: easy
- Nutrition: algae, plant foods, frozen foods (artemia, krill, others)
- Aggression: aggressive towards other Acanthuridae, especially other Zebrasomas
- Reef safety: safe
- Occurrence: East Indian Ocean, West Indian Ocean, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Central/West Pacific
About:
Commonly known as the brown tang, scopas tang, brush-tail tang or twotone tang. Belongs to the Acanthuridae family, Zebrasoma (surgeonfish) genus. Beautiful and easy to maintain Acanthuridae. Due to the relatively low price and ease of maintenance, it is quite often found in marine aquariums. If there are more fish from the Acanthuridae family in one aquarium, they will establish a hierarchy. The most aggressive ones are best added last. Zebrasomas are quite aggressive. They can fight each other when in a shared space, but keeping more than one in a mutual tank is still possible.
They spend most of their time picking algae from rocks. So if we don’t have algae on the rocks, then the animal should be provided with an algae clip, which they’ll nibble on.
About the author
Marek Protasewicz
Reefkeeping has been my passion for over 10 years now. I love learning. The hobby has taught me many valuable lessons, patience being the best example.
Combining work and passion is my path. I run Crazy Coral, a marine aquarium shop, for a number of years. Building this business from the scratch I learnt from my own mistakes at a heavy cost.
Later I managed a project aimed at development of methods for quick growth of Corals in non-natural conditions. The project was carried out by Get Sales, Poland.
Presently, I am responsible for distribution strategy at Reef Factory, of which I am a
co-founder. The company produces smart devices for marine aquaristics.
The last projects I have been involved in are Social Reef and ReefPedia.
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