Yellow tang feeding 
Yellow tang feeding on coral 
Yellow tang 
Yellow tango 
Yellow tango 
Yellow tango
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Yellow.’ See more offering’s here.
I thought I’d try the WordPress gallery feature for this post, which features yellow tangs, the first fish everyone notices in Hawaii. These bright yellow fish putter about in fairly shallow water, sometimes singly or in pairs, but often in large groups. They feed on algae, and occasionally can be seen cleaning turtles for this purpose. Unlike some fish, juveniles look the same as mature yellow tangs so shoals often contain a variety of sizes. The lower three photos show a pair of yellow tangs engaged in what I think is some kind of mating ritual.
Yellow tang are long-lived fish. They can live to be 20 or 30 years old. They’re also fish that are very popular in the aquarium trade but, since they don’t breed in captivity, all aquarium fish are collected from the wild. Currently, there’s a moratorium on the aquarium fish collection trade here, because of concerns about fish stocks and the sustainability of the practice.
Also posted in response to Becky’s July Squares challenge theme of ‘Perspective.’ See more responses here.
oh I am so glad they are no longer to take them out of the oceans – what fabulous fish
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It’s an ongoing battle. Recently, the aquarium fish people presented an environmental impact statement saying – surprise – that it was fine for them to keep taking fish and it should be allowed again. But lots of people wrote in protesting and the moratorium was retained. Don’t think it’s the end of the matter by any means.
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These debates shouldn’t even be debates!
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There are always debates when there’s money to be made and the aquarium trade is big business.
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That’s true . . .wish big business had less of a sway in this world, but that’s very naive of me I know
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They’ll be the next overlords, corporatocracy I think it’s called!
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good name for them 😦
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Such gorgeous, rich yellows of these tangs, Graham. Interesting they live so long. Beautiful underwater photography, too!
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everything Terri says too!
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Thanks, Terri. They might be a common fish, but I like taking photos of them.
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