Acanthurus mata

[gparr]

Was at Mike Clifford's home the other night to photograph his reef. His Blue-throat trigger, with its attitude, did some digging and created a dust storm that ruined the coral photography. I'll return soon to try again.

Mike has a Mata tang that's about 10 in. long and fat and sassy. Since you don't see Mata tangs very often, I thought the R2R members would enjoy seeing a couple of shots. Quite a beautiful fish.

Gary

 

[bige11]

Cool Fish

Cool fish, kinda looks like a blue line angel, but with a little different shape.

 

[SaraB]

Nice photos Gary. That looks like a fat and happy tang!

 

[MarvinsReef]

sweet... awesome tang... thanks for sharing Gary.... :)

 

[SDguy]

Great fish...a LFS here had a tiny baby one. So tempting....

 

[mcliffy2]

Thanks again for attempting the photo session (despite Trigger the Digger). For fun, I was just looking at photos of this tang when I added him a year ago and he was literally about a third of his current size:

 

[AlexStinson]

i used to have one of those, I love them!

 

[Sea MunnKey]

Mata Tang has that similar Discus fish striations ... IMHO :tongue: !!

Paul