Do these yellow tangs look healthy?

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Just browsing a local general pet store that happens to sell fish as well, and the have two yellow tangs, decent size. I’ve been wanting one, and now with the shutdown I know they’ll be hard to get. But I’m not sure they look very healthy, just seem kinda skinny. Thoughts? They’re $100

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Depends.. Skinny because they are not eating or not being fed enough or skinny because they have internal parasites?
 

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Thinning but not unusual as the stores receive them this way from their suppliers
Feeding will bring them up to par.
My 6 were similar when I got them
Feed at minimum:

nori seaweed basted with garlic extract

spirulina brine shrimp

LRS herbivore diet

formula 2 flake and frozen

mysis shrimp

small plankton

Add selcon vitamins and garlic extract to the foods for stamina and immunity health

here’s mine now:

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