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Lovely fish, Murfman! I thought dussumieri tangs have a white caudal spine?

this come from here;
Eyestripe Surgeonfish, Pencilled Surgeonfish, Acanthurus dussumieri

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The Eyestripe Surgeonfish or Pencilled Surgeonfish are highly variable in color depending on the locality where each fish is found. The body can range from a grayish color to a Hawaiian variety that has yellow around the edges of the body with purple highlights. They have thin wavy lines on the face and gill cover, and an orange band over the eyes. A Great Barrier reef version sports irregular blue lines and a yellow head with more blue spots and lines. The caudal fin is blue with dark spots, sometimes with a lighter yellow area at the base, and is moon shaped in adults. On each side of the caudal peduncle is a single spine or scalpel, covered with a whitish sheath on a black patch. Juveniles are usually not as colorful as adults. They have a dusky colored body, yellowish dorsal fins, and the base of their caudal fin is whitish. This species can live up to 28 years.
The characteristic yellow band through the eye can also be seen on some very similar species, the Ringtail Surgeonfish A. blochii, Elongate Surgeonfish, A. mata, and Yellowfin Surgeonfish A. xanthopterus. But the Eyestripe Surgeonfish can be distinguished from these others by the dark spots in the center of its caudal fin and the lack of a yellow edge on its pectoral fins.
 
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Here are a few pictures that I took today.
Brown-Eared Surgeonfish (Acanthurus gahhm or Acanthurus nigricauda)
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Bump!
 

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My current tang, juvenile desjardinii sailfin


Old tangs (lost in my velvet ich wipe out, aswell as i sold the hippo tang)

Kole, had him for 1.5 years


scopas, had him for 1.5 years


had the pacific blue for 1 year before he out grew the 4 ft


had powder blue for 3 weeks before all my fish got wiped out by velvet


had the yellow as long as powder blue
 

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Hoping to catch a glimpse of a two spot tang. Was thinking of getting one myself but I don't see too many pics of them
 

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