"Mutant" White Colored Yellow Tang

[ntropics]

I saw this cool "yellow" tang in Kealakekua Bay on the Big Island last week.
Enjoy! Movie to eventually follow!

Bruce

 

[acesq]

Nice find!


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[SecretiveFish]

Very cool! I look forward to seeing your video and thanks for sharing!

 

[ntropics]

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]

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]

Nice find! I have seen some supposedly scopus hybrids that have similar coloration in tanks online. Could be what you have there.

 

[jda]

You see them from time to time in the hobby. I wonder how any of them end up doing in captivity.

 

[ntropics]

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]

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]

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]

Not really a tang fan but.... that is amazing. :dance:

 

[mitchrapp]

It might be a piebald tang. My LFS had one for $19k!!!

 

[ntropics]

Oh and I know its "secret" location! 19K would surely be a nice addition to my portfolio!

 

[Kremis]

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