Hybrid Scopas tang

lucas-grimm · Apr 14, 2023

Just saw this on liveaquaria and thought it looked funny, (sailfinxscopas?). I have a hybrid scopas in my tank already. But would like to hear others thoughts on this fish and if I’m just looking too much into it.

nereefpat · Apr 14, 2023

I suppose it's possible. Z velifer and scopas overlap in distribution. It might just be a scopas. I would just sell it as such, and I wouldn't pay over regular scopas price.

Do you have a pic of your hybrid? I'm curious.

lucas-grimm · Apr 14, 2023

nereefpat said:
I suppose it's possible. Z velifer and scopas overlap in distribution. It might just be a scopas. I would just sell it as such, and I wouldn't pay over regular scopas price.

Do you have a pic of your hybrid? I'm curious.

nereefpat · Apr 14, 2023

Pretty fish. Supposed to be a scopas x purple?

PicassoClown04 · Apr 14, 2023

Agreed, I’d love to know what hybrid you have!

the LA one looks like Sailfin x scopas to me but with the species being so different I’m not sure if they would breed or produce viable offspring

Reef370 · Apr 14, 2023

lucas-grimm said:
Just saw this on liveaquaria and thought it looked funny, (sailfinxscopas?). I have a hybrid scopas in my tank already. But would like to hear others thoughts on this fish and if I’m just looking too much into it.

I was thrown off by it too.. I never really came up with an answer.. I think at 59 dollars I’ll say scopas, maybe with time the lines will fade.

The WaterSide Fishing · Apr 14, 2023

Same here

lucas-grimm · Apr 14, 2023

footgal said:
Agreed, I’d love to know what hybrid you have!

the LA one looks like Sailfin x scopas to me but with the species being so different I’m not sure if they would breed or produce viable offspring

Yellow x Scopas

lucas-grimm · Apr 14, 2023

nereefpat said:
Pretty fish. Supposed to be a scopas x purple?

Nope. Haven’t seen those before, but now I have to look them up

lucas-grimm · Apr 14, 2023

Reef370 said:
I was thrown off by it too.. I never really came up with an answer.. I think at 59 dollars I’ll say scopas, maybe with time the lines will fade.

The more i look into baby scopas, the more I agree. Haven’t seen an adult sailfin x scopas but one of my lfs has had one before.