How much is Yellow tang in your lfs?

[Uncle99]

$200 CDN.
Getting nicer every year.
Almost could not tell the difference between them and now banned wild caught ones I viewed today.
Worth every penny.
Great fish.

 

[MJY]

Curious how many people actually invest that kind of money on yt there? And how does it stack up vs other fish? How much do purple or gem tang cost in AU?

I currently have a Yellow Tang that cost me $1,200, a Gem Tang that cost me $1,600 and a Purple Tang that cost me $500. Yes that is crazy money, but they were the three "must have" fish for me in my upcoming system. They are all currently getting to know each other in QT and behaving surprisingly well.

Gem Tang - price range is approximately $1,500 - $2,500
Purple Tang - price range is approximately $300 - $600

Another cracker for you would be Flame Angles, I just paid $650 for one! Insanity!

A lot of people are investing those figures in show piece fish now, and as such the sacristy and lack of availability due to import restrictions has driven the price up exponentially in the past 3 years.

 

[Cool tangs]

I currently have a Yellow Tang that cost me $1,200, a Gem Tang that cost me $1,600 and a Purple Tang that cost me $500. Yes that is crazy money, but they were the three "must have" fish for me in my upcoming system. They are all currently getting to know each other in QT and behaving surprisingly well.

Gem Tang - price range is approximately $1,500 - $2,500
Purple Tang - price range is approximately $300 - $600

Another cracker for you would be Flame Angles, I just paid $650 for one! Insanity!

A lot of people are investing those figures in show piece fish now, and as such the sacristy and lack of availability due to import restrictions has driven the price up exponentially in the past 3 years.

Totally agree beautiful fish!

We're do you live that's insane!

Gems you can get for $999, usually hover on the $1200 mark
Purples $300, they have dropped in price
Flame angels no more then $350
But yeah our yellow tangs sadly expensive

This is aus pricing

Happy reefing

 

[blaxsun]

$500 CAD and up. And they sell within a day or two.

 

[Pico bam]

Small captive bread yellow tangs at my favorite lfs are 210$

 

[Screwgunner]

Flame angle $80
YT $300
Purple. $180
Did see a gem but did not ask for price.

 

[Floyd-]

Captive bread YT is about 120-200 here in FL

 

[findingDory]

I am in mancheater/ new hampshire/ USA. I saw one for $599.99 it is about 4 in. And i assume it is wild caught.

 

[Lividfanatica]

Bought my captive-bred biota YT's for $200 a pop from my LFS. Small, skinny, but aside from crypto - are overall in good shape. ;Nailbiting

 

[Bato367]

1 Yellow Tang...That'll be $799.99+tax please.

 

[NanoJHB]

Small Yellows go for about 400 USD here and medium Gem tangs 300 USD.
I'm in South Africa

 

[doubleshot00]

Yellow sold the other day for $300 at lfs but he was a healthy looking fish.

 

[Jimmyneptune]

I would like to get some flame wrasse. I once bought 3 for $200.
That won’t happen again unless Hawaii opens up.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

(Fl Tampa area) Captives in 4 different stores all at 250-300$ range, now every store has one or more, and the prices have been coming down on them, (never again 30$)

 

[DownUnderAqua]

Picked one up here in Australia $700USD equivalent ($1000 aud)

 

[i cant think]

Small Yellows go for about 400 USD here and medium Gem tangs 300 USD.
I'm in South Africa

That’s surprising that Gems aren’t cheaper over there as they’re natives. Is that due to the depth they’re collected at?

 

[Big Smelly fish]

200 for a 21/2 inch or so tang. Nice yellow color.

 

[NanoJHB]

That’s surprising that Gems aren’t cheaper over there as they’re natives. Is that due to the depth they’re collected at?

You see plenty of them when diving along the reefs here. Majority of the reefs are in protected marine reserves. There's also a lot of red tape and hoops to jump through when selling local species.

Most of the ones sold here are mainly collected from Mauritius last I read.

 

[Aari007]

$300 for a 3" yellow tang

 

[VCreamer87]

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.

225 for a juvenile ridiculously high
I’m in New Jersey