How much is Yellow tang in your lfs?

[Coralsdaily]

Caught this interesting discussion on fb- how much are your local fish stores currently charging for yellow tangs? Love to hear your feed back:
Your city/state/country, yellow tang price (USD), are they wild or biota captive bred, and what size?

I am in WI and no lfs has any yellow tangs (that I know of) right now. Found some biota captive bred ones in Chicago couple weeks back for $150 each at 2”.
Just a survey for data not soliciting opinions on trade politics.

 

[Brymac1]

My lfs is selling a group of three 3” wild yellows for $1600. They’ve had them for almost a year now…

 

[polyppal]

My lfs is selling a group of three 3” wild yellows for $1600. They’ve had them for almost a year now…

lol please tell me that $1600 is a typo

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Too much. Lol.
Even purples are too much imo.
D

 

[polyppal]

Biota is selling them aquacultured straight from the farm for $149

Hawaiian Yellow Tang

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[Coralsdaily]

My lfs is selling a group of three 3” wild yellows for $1600. They’ve had them for almost a year now…

So basically three yellow tangs at gem tang price…

 

[chipchipbro]

welcome to switzerland

 

[i cant think]

£220 for a WC Indonesian yellow over here
OR £250 for a CB Hawaiian yellow…
I know what I’d rather grab and it’s not going to be CB.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

I'll get a pic, but I want to say 125ish, same as a purple. Not conditioned/QT'ed. They never stay in stock though anymore. I want a yellow eye kole but my eyes and wallet keep saying no to that price which is even higher than the yellow/purple tangs.

 

[Gtinnel]

They had small ones for $120 a few weeks ago.

 

[Brymac1]

lol please tell me that $1600 is a typo

I wish it was… their prices are generally higher than other local stores, but this one is just nuts

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

No way! Kole tangs...even the yellow eyed ones use to be cheap. Lol
D

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

No way! Kole tangs...even the yellow eyed ones use to be cheap. Lol
D

I was talking to a co-worker/fellow reefer about this. I remember yellow tangs & Nasos being 25 bucks, the previous scopas tang I had was maybe 10-15 bucks, 12 years ago! Sigh....

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Days are gone bro...
No more $30 yellow tangs. Or doorbuster $1 chromis. Lol.

Scopas tangs for $45-$50 were the norm. Idk what they are now but it will continue to go up.
As the newer people coming in don't know and pay what they see...

The sw bizz literaly tripled in 10yrs... if not more.
D

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I hope the prices of fish stabilize fwiw. The coral im actually glad to see the prices go up.
Hopefully a little more up on the coral and hold. Lol.
We will see all.
D

 

[brahm]

Days are gone bro...
No more $30 yellow tangs. Or doorbuster $1 chromis. Lol.

Scopas tangs for $45-$50 were the norm. Idk what they are now but it will continue to go up.
As the newer people coming in don't know and pay what they see...

The sw bizz literaly tripled in 10yrs... if not more.
D

Dd had a trio of chromis for 140 today. We used to feed chromis to frogfish until we could train them on non-live food. As high as the yellow tangs are it’s the price of chromis that I’m baffled by.

 

[Coralsdaily]

I'll get a pic, but I want to say 125ish, same as a purple. Not conditioned/QT'ed. They never stay in stock though anymore. I want a yellow eye kole but my eyes and wallet keep saying no to that price which is even higher than the yellow/purple tangs.

I too been wanting a kole… but cant seem to find them anywhere

 

[Coralsdaily]

They had small ones for $120 a few weeks ago.

Where is this?

 

[Coralsdaily]

I hope the prices of fish stabilize fwiw. The coral im actually glad to see the prices go up.
Hopefully a little more up on the coral and hold. Lol.
We will see all.
D

My feeling is coral prices will stabalze as the constant supply of captive fragged corals and competitive prices at swaps. But pelagic fish isnt slmething even an elite hobbyist can easily breed and raise, so that really limits the availability.

 

[Coralsdaily]

Dd had a trio of chromis for 140 today. We used to feed chromis to frogfish until we could train them on non-live food. As high as the yellow tangs are it’s the price of chromis that I’m baffled by.

Everything is 300-500% marked up vs 10 yrs ago