Care
Juvenile Chevron Tangs display dazzling colours and patterns, which unfortunately they lose as they mature. Adult fish take on an overall duller colouration of dark reddish-brown with thin olive green pinstripes; nevertheless, mature Chevron Tangs are still fine looking fish "“ just not quite as eye-catching as the juveniles. Although attaining quite a large size, this is not a particularly aggressive species and it should get on well with most tankmates - the exceptions being others of its own kind and close relatives. For this reason, keep only one specimen per tank, and not with any other tangs. The aquarium should be spacious, mature, and aquascaped with plenty of live rock. A healthy growth of microalgae will be beneficial as this agile herbivore spends a large part of the day grazing with its flexible comb-like teeth. It is important that this fish receives a generous amount of vegetable matter in its diet in order to help prevent head and lateral line erosion. As long as this fish is kept well fed, it should not pose any real problems in a reef set up. High water quality and areas of powerful flow are a must. Pictured above is a young specimen displaying the bright colours and typical herringbone pattern.
Feeding
Feed a varied diet, consisting mainly of vegetable matter, in small amounts 3 times per day. Although this species will browse on algae within the aquarium, its diet must be supplemented with frozen herbivore rations, green marine flake, Spirulina (blue-green algae), Spirulina-enriched brineshrimp, cucumber, lettuce, Nori (dried seaweed) etc. It will also take small meaty frozen foods, but be sure that it is receiving enough green food to prevent HLLE. Adding a specially formulated vitamin supplement to any frozen foods will be beneficial.
Breeding
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