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

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$130CAD for a 2.5" And these were likely fish purchased prior to the ban, as there hasn't been any in stock anywhere for a while. When I joined the hobby last February, they were $80 or less.

For reference, a similar sized purple tang currently sells for $190CAD.
 

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$130CAD for a 2.5" And these were likely fish purchased prior to the ban, as there hasn't been any in stock anywhere for a while. When I joined the hobby last February, they were $80 or less.

For reference, a similar sized purple tang currently sells for $190CAD.
 

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In the UK £75 before the ban, £120-£150 now!!!!
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What other species will be difficult to get now? Yellow, cole, and convict tangs, of course. I'm guessing all sorts of triggerfish? And any specific coral kinds?

Convict is available from other parts.

potters angel
Potters wrasse
flame wrasse

are all endemic.
 

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I got a yellow for 70 and a Kole for 60 a few days after the ban. The store is out of them now.

Petco would be the place to check now since they won’t mark the stock up.

The other stores had Koles 140-200 and Potters angel 200 (and it had ich). They had no yellows in stock.
 

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I’m sure the price will keep going up as the demand goes up. With everyone grabbing them now.
 

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Check this out. Mama Mia. Most places
Out of stock
 

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I know this probably isn't connected but blue Caribbean tangs have jumped to sky high prices as well i bought mine for 40 and they apparently used to be 12 dollars where i live
 

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LFS in my area suck so I doubt they even have them.
I was offered some corals for one of my YT the other day. Not gonna do it though. Not just because of the ban, but the chances of getting 2 YT to live together pretty peacefully is not something I want to risk again lol.
Here's a couple recent pics of them.
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$75 at Artistic Aquarium in Chandler, AZ
I was there this weekend and they sold 1 of the last 3 I saw and it was sold for $130ish while i was in the shop. It was a larger one so perhaps the little guys are still at $75 but I wasn't really there for the fish just happened to be in the isle while the guy was buying the bigger one.
 

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I was there this weekend and they sold 1 of the last 3 I saw and it was sold for $130ish while i was in the shop. It was a larger one so perhaps the little guys are still at $75 but I wasn't really there for the fish just happened to be in the isle while the guy was buying the bigger one.
I think they're completely out now. People that don't even like tangs are buying them juat because.
 

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San Diego, CA. Saw a med yellow at LFS last week for $140. Local guy selling a supply of yellows 2-4" for $90. I picked up two 1.5" ones and tiny kole tangs $60 just yesterday. =)

Will be selling my 4-5" kole once i catch it this/next week (not shipping).
 

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$200 here in New York For yellow tang. I don’t even want to know about a powder blue which is what I’m looking for. I should have pulled the trigger last week. With these kinds of prices fish less aquariums will grow in popularity Soon
 

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I have a LE NEON GOLDEN SUN tang for 5,000 dollars. Soon to be the rage like the 200 rainbow bta.
 

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Flame wrasse and Yellow tang were on stock list for my 100g, RIP my dreams...
Anyone ever seen Flame Wrasse captive bred?
 

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this makes me feel like I felt when it dawned on me I could have bought apple for five bucks per
 

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I didn't ask but one of my lfs's has probably atleast if not more than 300 yellow tangs in stock. They are probably all under a hundred bucks. When I went in yesterday I did a double take when I saw yellow tang heaven, looked like I was diving a reef in Hawaii!
Went back to the lfs with all the Yellow tangs (300+) and they are selling for $80. I also went to my other lfs and they had around 20 Yellow tangs selling for $399!!!
 

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I bought 3 from LA for $24 each a few years ago. I lost one and was waiting for that price again to buy more.
 
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