Welcome to the Photo Gallery Spotlight. Each
month we'll showcase a particularly nice aquarium photograph, taking the time to discuss
the identification and husbandry of the animal pictured as well as information relating to
the technical details of how the photo was taken. Readers are encouraged to send
images (and details on the organisms pictured, as well as the details of how they captured
the shot) they would like to submit for possible inclusion in this feature to terry@advancedaquarist.com . For submissions
that are published in Advanced Aquarist, the author will receive a $25.00 gift certificate
from one of our participating advertisers.
Red Sea Sailfin Tang
The author’s Zebrasoma desjardinii appears to be
telling the Pomacanthus navarchus to keep its distance by a show of size. The
surgeonfish has been with the author for more than 15 years and the angelfish has grown
from a juvenile over the last 10 years in the author’s reef tanks. Interestingly, the
P. navarchus has never damaged a coral or clam in the author’s reef tanks, but
this is no guarantee that a different P. navarchus would be reef safe.
