I wouldn't really call this albinoe as their is still color around the edges of the fish itself. Seems more like it would be a pie bald, interesting fish either way but man no way I would shell that out for a yellow tang.
That is one ugly fish IMO. I wonder if the white will spread as it matures and end up looking like Casper at WWC (The Rare White Tang from World Wide Corals | AquaNerd) If so, it might be pretty cool looking in a year or so
I didn't know RHS was even back open but I agree with BMW on this one, what an ugly fish. First thing that comes to my mind is to ask what's wrong with it and I don't think that's the idea of a $2500 fish.
Oh i see you had to click on the word THIS. Gotcha. Thanx. I think it's a cool fish but no where near $2500 cool. I'd rather have an Achilles. Now the white one at WWC is the S**T!
I have even seen a few of these fish myself. At first I thought the condition represented partial albinism of some sort, presumably caused by a genetic variation. In support of this, Dr. John E. Randall writes:
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