Purple tang "season"

[sTefaniA]

Their availability changes over the years. Sometimes you can't find a decently sized specimen for months, and then suddenly every lfs has small cheap ones.
Untill last year they were very rare here because of import problems. Now they are getting rare again, finding only large expensive ones in the lfs. Their price doubled compared to 6 months ago.

 

[lhm nole]

My wholesaler in Atlanta had them couple months back for 59 bucks for small ones about 2 1/2 inches I was told collecting red sea stuff is seasonal because at times its too rough to even get boats to where they collect and that there is only severals months that are ideal to collect a year