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ntropics
01/26/2017, 12:10 AM
I saw this cool "yellow" tang in Kealakekua Bay on the Big Island last week.
Enjoy! Movie to eventually follow!

Bruce

acesq
01/26/2017, 01:03 AM
Nice find!


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SecretiveFish
01/26/2017, 08:04 AM
Very cool! I look forward to seeing your video and thanks for sharing!

ntropics
01/26/2017, 10:32 AM
Here's the video.
https://youtu.be/i8p6x5LMb-c
Note the longnose butterfly at the beginning. Later, a lavender tang chases him about. I noticed that one lavender tang would try to harass an entire school of convict tangs!

Bruce

btb72
01/26/2017, 10:43 AM
Well a new white tang is going to be on the market since they know where one is now. Jk that is really cool

nereefpat
01/26/2017, 11:35 AM
Nice find! I have seen some supposedly scopus hybrids that have similar coloration in tanks online. Could be what you have there.

jda
01/26/2017, 08:30 PM
You see them from time to time in the hobby. I wonder how any of them end up doing in captivity.

ntropics
01/26/2017, 10:35 PM
Fortunately, (for the fish) this is in a protected area. You can't even land your kayak there (it's only accessable by kayak, or a hike down a 500 foot hill, or a $75 tour boat). So it's pretty safe. I have seen these for sale for $1500. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a scopus tang. There is enough yellow on it to verify that it was a yellow tang, and I don't believe scopus tangs are found in Hawaii.

CrayolaViolence
01/27/2017, 03:41 AM
What I'd like to know is how (as in what the mutation is) they get the blue yellow tangs. Not "blue tangs", I mean teal colored broken marked blue ones with a bit of brown that look (physically) like yellow tangs. They call them koi tangs, and they go for a heck of a lot more than 1500 bucks.

joshky
01/27/2017, 06:08 AM
What I'd like to know is how (as in what the mutation is) they get the blue yellow tangs. Not "blue tangs", I mean teal colored broken marked blue ones with a bit of brown that look (physically) like yellow tangs. They call them koi tangs, and they go for a heck of a lot more than 1500 bucks.

Those are Scopas Tangs, this is thread is about a Yellow Tang. Both of these deformities can be considered aberrations. I've seen Koi Tangs in the $1000-$1500 range, a white Yellow Tang such as the one on this thread would be much more.

rajilnaja
01/27/2017, 12:57 PM
Not really a tang fan but.... that is amazing. :dance:

mitchrapp
01/27/2017, 07:09 PM
It might be a piebald tang. My LFS had one for $19k!!!

ntropics
01/27/2017, 08:41 PM
Oh and I know its "secret" location! 19K would surely be a nice addition to my portfolio!

Kremis
01/28/2017, 11:13 AM
I have seen several of these around the kona coast of the big island, usually not fully white but mixed. Generally, whereever we found a lot of yellow tangs, there were 1 or 2 of these guys there also