Adult: yellow, with dense blue stripes; soft dorsal and tail fins dark, with yellow borders; pectoral, pelvic and anal fins yellow; inside mouth red. Juvenile: 3 black stripes: 1 from above eye along top of back and upper tail base; 1 thin stripe from top of eye back along lateral line of front half of body; 1 from snout through eye to tail base; an elongate black spot on base of tail fin a little below level of the lower stripe; lower body with horizontal yellow stripes.