One of the lesser known of these is the Orange Stripe Bristletooth Tang (Ctenochaetus cf striatus). They also get called Striated Tangs, Orange Dotted Bristletooth Tangs and Lined Bristletooth Tangs (or Surgonfish). These gorgeous fish start out a shimmering blue with orange spots around their eyes, and a few wide orange stripes down their bodies. As they mature, they'll become a burnt orange with a light blue/green head; they'll retain the spots around their eyes and will gain fine blue stripes down their side and along their fins. The internet abounds with reports that these fish will get bigger than ten inches long and while this is possible, they'll hit maturity around six inches, and specimens longer than eight inches are absolute unicorns (not Unicorn Tangs, just rare).
Another common knowledge about all Bristletooth Tangs and the Orange Stripe among them, comes in relation to feeding them. No matter what you read, or who wrote it, Orange Stripes can't just live on grazing the liverock in your tank. These fish need more food than that, and also more protein. The Nutramar Algae and Color Boost Shots are absolutely perfect food for this fish and all Ctenochaetus genus Tangs. The shots can be stuck to the rocks and glass where the tang can graze on them, just like their normal feeding behavior, and they offer a perfect balance of protein and greenery for their digestive tracts. Bristletooth Tangs will almost always take frozen food fairly quickly, and so things like Brine Plus Spirulina and Brine Plus Omega from Gamma Foods is a good way to get them started and then you can start working on getting them used to Nutramar Pellets and we recommend the same formula here. You can supplement this diet with Nori and Ogo from Nutramar, and while this isn't their favorite way to get algae into their diet, they will take it, and it is important. Click here to read more
Another common knowledge about all Bristletooth Tangs and the Orange Stripe among them, comes in relation to feeding them. No matter what you read, or who wrote it, Orange Stripes can't just live on grazing the liverock in your tank. These fish need more food than that, and also more protein. The Nutramar Algae and Color Boost Shots are absolutely perfect food for this fish and all Ctenochaetus genus Tangs. The shots can be stuck to the rocks and glass where the tang can graze on them, just like their normal feeding behavior, and they offer a perfect balance of protein and greenery for their digestive tracts. Bristletooth Tangs will almost always take frozen food fairly quickly, and so things like Brine Plus Spirulina and Brine Plus Omega from Gamma Foods is a good way to get them started and then you can start working on getting them used to Nutramar Pellets and we recommend the same formula here. You can supplement this diet with Nori and Ogo from Nutramar, and while this isn't their favorite way to get algae into their diet, they will take it, and it is important. Click here to read more
