purple tang for sale
Our purple tangs for sale are currently 2.25-2.75″ and perfect specimens! Saltwater fish shop is your source for the nicest purple tangs for sale online anywhere! Our beautiful, vividly colored purple tang for sale inventory is as good as it gets! Shop with confidence! With a marine biologist ON-SITE, all of our tangs for sale, and all saltwater fish for sale come with our full live arrival and 7-day health guarantee! All of our saltwater fish for sale ship via UPS or Fedex Year-round in heated or cooled insulated boxes! The Purple Tang is one of the more expensive and certainly one of the prettiest tangs. The purple tangs’ body is a purplish blue with dark striped patterns and sports a yellow tail. The Purple Tang will be even more expensive if purchased locally.
Care Level : Moderate, needs slow acclimation, appropriate tank mates and proper foods.
Size : 8 to 10 inches (up to 25 cm)
Life span : 10 years or longer
Water Parameters : pH 8.1 – 8.4, Temperature : 74°F – 82°F (24°C – 28°C), Specific Gravity : 1.021 – 1.025, Carbonate Hardness (dKH) : 8 – 12°
Origin / Habitat : West Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, the Maldives and spotted in several other locales
Temperament / Behavior : They may be aggressive with other tangs in smaller tanks, especially other similarly shaped tangs like the yellow tang. Might be ok in multiples in
very large tanks.
Breeding : Very difficult to breed in captivity.
Aquarium Size : 100 gallon (380 liters) minimum and would do better in larger tanks. They need lots of swimming space.
Tank Mates : Use caution when selecting tank mates. Avoid keeping them with other species of tangs.
Diet / Foods : Mostly an herbivore feeding on filamentous marine algae in the wild. Try to give them a variety of marine foods but predominantly marine origin algae. Aquascape the aquarium with lots of live rock for them to graze on. They should accept vitamin enriched flake foods, frozen and definitely live foods. Small frequent feedings are better than larger infrequent feedings. This is a very active fish and needs appropriate foods.
Tank Region : All over
Gender : Difficult to determine the differences between males and females by external features.
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