Hawaii Ban -Whats the price of a Yellow Tang in your area now?

jaganshi066 · Feb 17, 2021

SPSNick said:
$200 for a medium/large in Central Florida

Same with socal

346700984 · Feb 17, 2021

One of our favorite fish stores had a big, healthy guy. Last one they had and we got him for $140 within the past two weeks.

miyags · Feb 17, 2021

For a stupid fish, what a joke. And people will pay it..Maybe its not the fish thats stupid.We pay hounders for a clam???? In the south seas you can have the same clam cooked for you for $10.

zukihara · Feb 17, 2021

Yellow tangs are the bitcoin of reefing.

RJKain-777 · Feb 17, 2021

$250 - $600 in Canada. Depending where you go

Dark_Knightt · Feb 17, 2021

Price at my LFS for tangs hasnt changed at all. Still about $100-$150, maybe more. Gem tangs are about $1200

Ray23 · Feb 17, 2021

My yellow tang died yesterday (made a terrible mistake with iron dosing). So I looked around for one, in The Netherlands they are offered for €299 ($360). I was shocked.

Fakegolfnews · Feb 17, 2021

zukihara said:
Yellow tangs are the bitcoin of reefing.

GME

Rubberfrog · Feb 17, 2021

reefergirl04 said:
One of our favorite fish stores had a big, healthy guy. Last one they had and we got him for $140 within the past two weeks.

She's a beaut. I picked up a 3-4" one for $135 a few weeks ago.

Jon Fishman · Feb 17, 2021

Dark_Knightt said:
Gem tangs are about $1200

Come pick up my big healthy-eating one for half that!

polyppal · Feb 17, 2021

zukihara said:
Yellow tangs are the bitcoin of reefing.

I put 1000 yellow tangs in a safe last year, but now I can’t remember the password

Dark_Knightt · Feb 17, 2021

Jon Fishman said:
Come pick up my big healthy-eating one for half that!

I would love one for my 20g high XD

Rubberfrog · Feb 17, 2021

Dark_Knightt said:
I would love one for my 20g high XD

That would be perfect!

Dark_Knightt · Feb 17, 2021

Rubberfrog said:
That would be perfect!

In all seriousness there was a time when I was a beginner *still am but when I had just started* and I wanted to get a baby yellow tang for my tank so it eats the algae, then I would give it back to the LFS. Never did that, never will. But I do like to see tanks in the LFSs where they have tangs in smaller tanks, very small tangs, but they continuously move the fish to different tanks for shop aesthetic.

Rubberfrog · Feb 17, 2021

Dark_Knightt said:
In all seriousness there was a time when I was a beginner *still am but when I had just started* and I wanted to get a baby yellow tang for my tank so it eats the algae, then I would give it back to the LFS. Never did that, never will. But I do like to see tanks in the LFSs where they have tangs in smaller tanks, very small tangs, but they continuously move the fish to different tanks for shop aesthetic.

I appreciate that as well.

musaabi · Feb 17, 2021

One shop they had maybe 100 yellow tangs. $110 for small ones. It depends on the shop as other shops in my area were empty. I was going to pick one up but the shop doesn’t use copper to treat their fish, only UV sterilizers which is cool but I don’t have a quarantine setup (space is too small for more gear)