Purple tangs are not purple.

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Looks like your run heavy blue lighting, which I avoid like the plague.

Nope. Blue. Like mine..

It’s the same blue as the blue on my Majestic. No one says a Majestic angel has purple.

 

[o2manyfish]

If you look at it under blue light it's going to reflect the color blue. I keep Purple Tangs in my outdoor frag tanks and in the direct sunlight they are deep purple with black body stripes.

Dave B

 

[Nate Chalk]

Everything. The sailfin its housed with is a ultimate pig. Total glandular problem.

I imagine it breathes heavy merely moving, lol.

One upped with my clown fish

 

[Jase4224]

One upped with my clown fish

That’s doesn’t look healthy.. even my percula doesn’t look like that just before she lays egg..

 

[doubleshot00]

 

[Jase4224]

If you look at it under blue light it's going to reflect the color blue. I keep Purple Tangs in my outdoor frag tanks and in the direct sunlight they are deep purple with black body stripes.

Dave B

Looks like your run heavy blue lighting, which I avoid like the plague.

Depends on the time of the day, midday in my tank is white light and I like blues in the morning/evening. My iPhone always makes a picture look more blue though.

 

[bradreef]

Purple tangs are blue when you rock is blue. Under any form of white, they are purple.

 

[AKL1950]

Shot with a flash. Have to agree, more blue than purple. Saw several last week around the BVI islands. Looked more blue than purple.

 

[acesfull44]

 

[Nate Chalk]

That’s doesn’t look healthy.. even my percula doesn’t look like that just before she lays egg..

Lol. 6 yrs old. Heavily fed.

 

[hart24601]

Next I will hear blasphemy that clownfish didn’t attend clown college or wear oversized shoes!

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Lol. 6 yrs old. Heavily fed.

Your perc looks like its also panting heavily as it swims!

 

[xiongsy]

What color is this dress?

Gold and light blue

 

[Reefing102]

Shot with a flash. Have to agree, more blue than purple. Saw several last week around the BVI islands. Looked more blue than purple.

Unless I misinterpreted the acronym, the BVI are in the Carribean and purples aren’t native to the Carribean?

That said, I see the argument for blue however that looks more purple to me still.

 

[sfin52]

They are blue.

 

[OrionN]

Nope. Blue. Like mine..

It’s the same blue as the blue on my Majestic. No one says a Majestic angel has purple.

everything is blueish under blue light. If you want to compair, compair hime with the Blue Hipo tang.
My Purple tang is PURPLE under white/daylight light, even purple under 10K light.
Somebody is colorblind and it ain't me.
Purple

Blue

 

[OrionN]

Shot with a flash. Have to agree, more blue than purple. Saw several last week around the BVI islands. Looked more blue than purple.

somebody is definitely colorblind.

 

[billyocean]

everything is blueish under blue light. If you want to compair, compair hime with the Blue Hipo tang.
My Purple tang is PURPLE under white/daylight light, even purple under 10K light.
Somebody is colorblind and it ain't me.
Purple

Blue

Lol..top is blue.
Bottom is baby-ish blue
Neither of those are purple in any palette

 

[billyocean]

Here's two different purples to compare.

 

[AKL1950]

Unless I misinterpreted the acronym, the BVI are in the Carribean and purples aren’t native to the Carribean?

That said, I see the argument for blue however that looks more purple to me still.

Yes, British Virgin Islands. Purple tangs have been documented there since 2018. When we snorkeled Salt Island we saw a lot of them. Much darker blue than Atlantic Blue Tangs, but I would say more dark navy blue looking than purple. Having said that, if you had a bunch of bright blue fish that were all light to sky blue and there was a purple tang among them, it would definitely be darker and look purple compared to the others. As others have said, it all depends on the lighting.