Red Sea Purple Tang VS Regular Purple?

As far as I know of the Red Sea purple tangs are much brighter than regular ones. I see them every once and a while on divers den on live aquaria. I think they might have one currently, if so you should check it out. Like any other fish you need do some research on it.


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The fish store by me has a red sea section. When I compare the red sea fish from the non red sea fish I can't tell the diffrence. Especially for the price diffrence.

I always thought all purple tangs were from the Red Sea? Can someone correct me on this? With the price difference, collection points in species that look the exact same I think are rediculous! The Harlequin Tuskfish for example. The Australian one is like $100 more and I personally can't see the difference between it and the Indonesian


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Purple tang is from Red sea!

I don't know if it still holds true now a days, but way back when I worked in a LFS ... the difference in price with the Red Sea stuff vs the same species from the Pacific was the fact the Red Sea stuff was never collected via cyanide where at the time, that was a normal collection technique in certain locations in the Pacific. So you were paying more to make sure the fish wasn't poisoned on collection since cyanide collected fish often had health issues and didn't live as long.

Well if your talking about Zebrasoma xanthurum there origin is the red sea some places may just use the location of origin in front of there name of fish there selling that is my thoughts.

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