The Purple tang has been captive bred and it comes to fruition from a familiar player in the world of reef fish aquaculture,巴厘岛Aquarich. It’s only been a couple years since the breakthroughs in breeding the closely related yellow tang by the Oceanic Institute and the purple tang is only the third species of surgeonfish to be fully captive bred.
紫色的唐Zebrasoma xanthurum是红海的一个地方性，其特征是几乎纯净的紫色，带有明亮的黄色尾巴，头部和沿着身体的条纹上有可变的黑斑图案。紫色唐的外观高度保守，几乎总是具有正常的颜色，具有非常罕见的纯紫色标本的实例ACI’s Purple-Purple Tang, and even more rare is thepiebald variationso far only documented once.
For several years a Sri Lankan company has been collectingpost larval purple tangsand rearing them to sellable size in captivity but Bali Aquarich’s recent milestone is the first complete closure of the larval cycle of斑马叶thurum. This is very exciting for a number of reasons, especially since Bali Aquarich has a long track record of breeding and raising angelfish hybrids, so it would be a remarkable achievement if we ever saw hybrids of the purple tang with any number ofZebrasomacongeners.
The yield for this first successful clutch of captive bred purple tangs doesn’t appear to be very high but hopefully Bali Aquarich has success in refining the protocols and we see many more of these fish available to the reef aquarium hobby in the future.
