If you’ve been wondering where all the big, vivid yellow tangs have gone the answer is that they’re still in the wild, most of us simply can’t get them since Hawaii shut down collection and exports from their waters. But despite popular belief卵巢瘤黄酮is not endemic to Hawaii and the yellow tang has a much larger natural distribution ranging across much of the central Pacific Ocean all the way to the northern Philippines.
TheOgasawara Islands落在黄色唐的自然范围内，虽然它们可能不如夏威夷那样普遍Z. flavescensfor collectors to find a few large adult specimens.Aqua Giftis a saltwater aquarium store in Japan that has graced the webpages of Reef Builders many times over the years and they showed us a trio of large adult yellow tangs which are the first fresh specimens of this species we’ve seen collected in nearly two years.
尽管captive bred yellow tangs from Biotahave leveled off at a very reasonable ~$165 these large show specimens of Ogasawara yellow tangs are not all that expensive by comparison, selling for 44,000¥ or around $330. We didn’t even know that it was legal to collect in the protected waters of Ogasawara but we hear that there are some exceptions for collecting shallow water fish such aswrought iron butterflyfish还有偶尔的黄色唐，但圣杯Takeuchi angelfish生活更深层的地方是限制的。
