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Blond Naso Tang
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- Other common name(s)
- Lipstick tang
- Latin
- Naso elegans
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Fishbase Url
- http://www.fishbase.se/summary/Naso-elegans.html
- Maximum Size
- 45cm, 18"
- Minimum Tank Size
- 1001 to 2000 litres
- Care level
- Medium
- Reef Compatibility
- Yes
- Group compatibility
- Keep singly
- Temperament
- Aggressive to similar species
- Compatibility with hard corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with soft corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with Invertabrates
- No Issues
- Feeding
- Mixture of good quality flake, pellets, frozen food which should have a high content of algae
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Origin (from Fishbase)
- Indian Ocean: Red Sea south to Durban, South Africa and east through the islands of the western Indian Ocean to southwestern Indonesia, at least to Bali. Not reported from the Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, or India. Previously considered the Indian Ocean color variant of Naso lituratus.
- Image Copyright notice
- By Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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