Yellow Tangs !

[@dusk1947]

I love these guys, and Biota for doing it. I got my very first yellow Tang last month, a Biota aquacultured little fella. He's tiny and still semi-transparent. But, his behavior is defiantly a tang and he's been hardy. Spending his days foraging and picking clean the rock work. And as a professional conservationist (though not a marine one), I love that you focus on tank raised. Well done Sir

[@isaacfarmer7138]

So glad you guys are doing captive bred only, it keeps the hobby sustainable and gives the future reefers a chance to enjoy and love the hobby as we do now

[@Falteredsoul]

Those yellow tangs are awesome!! I can't wait til I'm finished building my 120 gallon! Definitely adding one to the stock list. A bit of a bummer they are so expensive now but when I think of them swimming the reefs in the wild I don't mind spending a little extra for captive bred.

[@shoja7264]

You are definitely one of the most personable YT Reefing influencer channel. You keep it real and fun. I LOVE your Channel!! Keep up the Great Work!!!

[@marrottw8018]

Not even in the top ten most personable YT Reefing influencer channel.

[@tjtj1566]

Thank you for your transparency. I nearly cracked up on the JT COD line 🤣🤣 I say the EXACT same thing unboxing any thing for my reef tank or arcade stuff when it comes from the states. It’s so bad they’ll ship something from California to Ontario THEN to Vancouver. I call it Justin’s carbon footprint tax.

[@sherryfisher6749]

Both of my mandarins eat frozen & pellets. Mandarins from Biota are fed pellets as well as frozen & live per Jake at Biota, so they are already trained to eat prepared food. Do feed them several times a day while small per Biota. Would buy from them again in a minute!

[@peterulvestad6418]

I bought a Biota Court Jester Goby from a LFS. It was the size of my Proaquatix Yellow Clown Goby. It's doubled in length and was an awesome addition to my tank. Only captive bred for me.

[@jeremybw2180]

I unfortunatly lost my Yellow Tang about 60 days ago. I love Yellows! They have such personality. Pay up on the jar! You swore @ 4:00 😂

[@walterwarwick354]

I bought one of those yellow Tangs you unboxed and it is probably the healthiest fish that I ever bought.

[@vincentjames1995]

I talked to a local LFS who has brought in a bunch of captive bred mandarins from the same source that you have March. He thinks his customers have about a 50% success rate because they are so small. Even though the vendor says they are eating pellet, you will still need to give special care, because their mouths are so small that they cannot eat regularly available fish food. Pods are pefect like you said, though not everybody has access to them. He has been keeping his captive bred mandarin inventory alive by feeding a marine snow type plankton mix (not live) from Brightwell.

[@ross2398]

Love the captive bred tangs, usually extremely healthy. Bought a captive bred yellow a couple weeks ago and eats like a tank! Also keep a farmed derasa clam and plan to pick up a hippopus when I can find one!

[@RNGR-kr5ek]

“What do we do with the swearing sailor, what do we do with the swearing sailor “ keep it up March !!! Dix loves them yellow tangs

[@mikesbigtank6015]

I bought a spotted mandarin from March about a year ago now it was so tiny March thought they were all going to die, they were captive bred it ate all the pods in the tank then I started feeding it "cyclops" and it is always nice and fat and healthy! P.S. you can keep a mandarin in a small tank 10-15 gallon if it is well fed, if the tank is too big you have to put more food in so it gets enough to eat in a small tank it can find the food much easier.

[@yuyu900726]

Thank you. This video reinforced my idea of having a captive bred only fish tank.

[@Tommy-yx8ch]

I got a Captive Bred paracentropyge multifasciata a few weeks ago So awesome to See more and more Captive Bred fish

[@HBReefBros]

My wild caught mandarin eats Reef Nutrition TDO extra small pellets. But I also feed pods and hatch baby brine shrimp. I've had him for 2 years now.

[@vainxglory]

Got the text message to customers from you guys about the new yellow tangs as I was watching this video! XD

[@t.dot.m5532]

Loving the new additions! My daughter just smiled when I told her about you liked her swear jar suggestion. #@##%#$%! 🤣🤣

[@fragboxcorals]

I really appreciate it :)

[@TomsReefs]

Seriously tempted to fly out just to look at your store 🤣🤣

[@dank2966]

MY Biota Mandarin eats frozen and flakes. I add pods every few month so he can hunt. doubled in size in 6 month.

[@saintsalad9184]

“We used to sell wild fish but then there was the bite of 87, yeahhhh… it’s amazing how a fish can live without the caudal fin, y’know?”

[@brendankrebs4867]

I never had a yellow tang always did want one though but thay are just to expensive in South Africa . Love watching the channel at night with a cup of coffee one's that is finished it is filled up with drool 🤪🤣 lol by watching frag box .

[@edwardloyer2345]

Mandarins are my favourite fish.awesome looking shipment.

[@marksmith566]

I think it’s great that they can captive breed yellow tangs but I’m kind of glad I got a wild one just before the ban as imo they do look better. Also just a tip for anyone planning on keeping mandarins, I’ve had great success with frozen bloodworm with all my mandarins.

[@seanpaterson1602]

Any idea when you'll be getting more tangs ?

[@Sammy31Dee]

My tanks got a fat blue tang....fat yellow tang ...and chunky mandarin... I love these fish and it was cool to hear you chatter about them...I also enjoy the raw store footage Like this bc I'm kinda at my wits end with my job and have thought about doing a store in my area where there's virtually no competition...so yea I am enjoying your store randomness quite a bit...keep it up

[@derekjohnson747]

I absolutely love my Biota Yellow Tang!!

[@eleazarrivera3335]

Do you deliver the texas ?

[@petert2041]

I love my little baby CB yellow tang. They are worth the premium price and knowing that they aren't from the wild. The yellow colouration will develop as the age.

[@justdabubbletip1452]

I have had a mandarin for almost 5 years. Probably 6 months ago I was feeding some pellets and wouldn’t you know caught him eating them. I think the trick is just making sure there is enough live food for them until they figure out they can eat pellets/frozen.

[@gnz66.66]

If u still got em, how much for half dozen shipped to midway in chicago?

[@FoolOfATuque]

I am weird in that I usually buy the smallest fish in the store. The way I see it is if you get the small ones they are younger.

[@alexbuwert5811]

I wish we could get captive breed in NZ at the moment we can only get clowns and a few others yellow tangs in nz are about 1000 dollars each now and you cant get them

[@kaseywilson7576]

Love to visit your store but I'm way down in tha states but since in can't I do enjoy the vids keep em coming

[@ricktokaji200]

very nice fishies love the mandarins my favourite in the hobby

[@sethwerf]

Looks like a good healthy shipment!

[@juberalam3685]

where are you located in Toronto,ON

[@mcervantes6001]

Do you carry RedSea max nano all in one system?

[@mattbibby6670]

can i ask you a question when you dose redsea alk foundations is 1ml of of alk 0.3 dkh or is it 0.1 i mix 20g to 1L

[@ScottieFindsFish]

are the tangs from sout florida? if so i do paving work for the supplier lol

[@lcj2046]

Am interested in some of your yellow tangs live in New York

[@T_Barrington]

that is exactly why I left the hobby in 2012... I didn't like how the fish were caught and there really wasn't any captive breed fish except clown fish and a few others.. Im very happy to see the hobby has evolved and I will be in shortly to check out the house brand tanks!

[@CalcioFan4Ever]

My local Sustainable aquatics is beginning to start breeding yellow tangs in a 1000g tank Very much looking forward to 8t hopefully taking off and prices lowering hopefully

[@Marinetuck220]

um did the miss the JBJ tank being taken down?

[@feliciabiota]

In our facility, we actually don't feed our mandarin fish any live foods. They eat tiny pellets like Tdo B2, frozen baby brine shrimp, and frozen calanus. We have customers who say theirs eat Masstick and flake food!

[@feliciabiota]

Aquaculture is the future

[@RogueAquariums]

Never thought a yellow tang would be more then a purple. Glad I held back 5 of them for my tanks. Biota is doing some great work in raising a popular fish.

[@hunterh891]

Yea when I got in the hobby over 15 years ago yellow tangs were dirt cheap everyone had one or ten and purple tangs and other tangs as well were hundreds more than a $40 to $60 yellow tang. Also yes props to biota for taking this on because we wouldn't have yellow tangs anymore and that isn't a job it's a different life when you breed fish like that that take so much time and patience.

[@Mike__B]

@@hunterh891 Not quite true, the yellow tang was primarily fished from Hawaiian waters because it was close and convenient, 5-6 hour flight to LA and they're in wholesellers tanks. They do exist naturally off the north of Australia's coast, up through Indonesia, Phillipines, pretty much up close to Japan. I'm pretty sure that's where people in that region of the world would get their fish from, and not Hawaii

[@williamworth2746]

Have a aware courier on screen like the South Park episode it hits the fan

[@rseurattan]

Hi I own a store tell me where I can get fish for pennies?

[@nealenns7869]

Working at Pecto as the aquatics head and manager 25-40% DOA or dead within a few days was expected. Sometimes full bags of 100 fish would come in dead.

[@fragboxcorals]

I feel ya

[@RobBoryckiGolf]

The last time I did a vlog about receiving fish like this. I opened it up for the camera and the fish was dead lol

[@superdave-ff8lk]

Yellow tanks when I started in the hobby at 16 years old 15 dollars us.

[@corpuscorpus9909]

Would you import royal gramma from biota too? That would be awesome. Nobody has them in Toronto (captive breed)

[@fragboxcorals]

yes sir

[@FishOutOfWaterToronto]

I had never seen this - I love March he's so random but so interesting to watch. I just bought a yellow tang from New Dawn Aquaculture. Captive bred!!! He also filled my slot with another 5 stichodactlya tapetum - I love my anemones !!! Love Fragbox not fishbox!

[@emmanueljohngordon465]

I spend more time here than in law school hahaha

[@montez438]

March, you technically said “shit” a minute or two after talking about the swear jar lol. Biota is cool. That’s where I got my pair of captive bred mandarins who just so happens to eat frozen brine shrimp.

[@fragboxcorals]

you are right -_-

[@Harolddespui]

About the delay, i wouldn't order fish around periods like Black Friday next time. 48 hours in a bag is close to animal cruelty imho.

[@atkinsnatureaquariums3552]

Love the yellow Tang!

[@hasanabdullah551]

My biota yellow tang came yesterday

[@KendrickOng]

If those Mandarins are from Biota, then they've already been weaned on prepared foods like Hikari frozen baby brine shrimp and PE frozen Calanus.

[@kilobits0000]

They also eat the xsmall chroma boost, I have one that's only an inch

[@KendrickOng]

I've never found TDO Chromaboost anywhere in Canada. Apparently it's a restricted item here; requires a permit to buy it.

[@McGD4]

My mandarin is from petco and eats frozen. Have not fed pods

[@pasci0057]

My mandarin ate LRS reef frenzy in a low flow area regularly

[@jarheadreefer1694]

I would like to add a yellow tang to my tank just havent yet

[@bobbyyy.]

I have 2 LFS in my area they DO NOT offer any captive bred fish besides clowns… Really wish they would start to offer only captive bred, One of the stores will still take in Wild clowns!!!🤦🏻‍♂️

[@fishpony1211]

Love the captive bred approach. One day soon i will have a shop that only sells captive bred fish. Thats the goal

[@gamer1206]

I've trained mine to eat frozen. Green, and ruby red.

[@juggalizzle75]

What happened with yellow tangs? I just got back into reefing after a 2 decade break. Yellow tangs used to be abundant. They were like $20

[@matthewhayden6505]

Ban on Hawaiian fish. Haven’t seen one at my LFS in months

[@juggalizzle75]

@@matthewhayden6505 I've seen them but they have been between $80 and $120 USD. That's nuts

[@Mike__B]

Yellow tangs were a staple of the hobby because they were relatively dirt cheap compared to other zebrasoma tangs, maybe the scopas was cheaper but that was it, but the scopas is quite ugly in comparison. Here you could get them for $20-30US for small ones all day long. Unfortunately(??) when I broke down my 300 I decided to sell my fish (yellow, yellow eye kole, purple tang) to someone with an equally large tank and priced them to move fast, and it had to be 2 days after I sold them the announcement came on the Hawaii ban, and the fish almost instantly spiked to $300 a pop in some places (yeah who would have thought... there was so much greed in this hobby from stores and vendors? **sarcasm**). I felt a twinge of remorse since I sold the Yellow for $30 (it was XL in size) but it went to a good home so I'm fine with it.

[@mathewstreet]

Love my Bito Yellow Tangs

[@kingofmexico6290]

Awesome looking shipment everything that comes in looks amazing, heres another thought on the swear jar how about after like a month or so you use that to raffle something cool to a new local reefer, just a thought keep up the great work

[@jameshammett5027]

I also got a yellow from BIOTA Great little guy ate in minutes of being put in tank and is boss already

[@2fyedarrin]

Amazing video

[@dobermanguy9437]

I've had my yellow tang eight years and he still doing great when I bought him he was forty bucks also my blue hippo Tang is soon to be 16 years old politics fuck up everything!!!

[@mxr248]

25 years ago my 1st yellow tang was $20

[@jessicaperez6534]

Love yellow tangs💛💛💖💗

[@oscartalamantes4480]

Q jenial un poco de español. Saludos

[@fragboxcorals]

gracias senor! voy hacer un video en espanol un dia por usted

[@oscartalamantes4480]

@@fragboxcorals exelente mil gracias me mandas un saludo en cualkier video me llamo Oscar talamantes soy de Chihuahua Mexico saludos

[@stevedang8554]

I got one eating pellets and mysis

[@Puciferthegreat]

Wish more companies focused on farming fish, might bring a bigger diversity and price drop. Does`nt seem to be lucrative enough tho unfortunately.

[@glasscanvasart5273]

I’m not too worried about reef fish making a dent in the ocean, but I definitely don’t like the mortality rate.

[@TheYetiMountain]

A video on training the mandarin to eat frozen would be sweet!

[@fragboxcorals]

I wish I knew how, will get Dillon on it

[@one-armed-reefer5184]

To back March up 40-50% was a good day at our shop tbh hates import days way to many dead fish it’s hart braking

[@fragboxcorals]

i feel ya

[@Vinenz]

Glad you got 8 without ich. I got one delivered in-bag with Ich from them. I wouldn't sell them at this size to most hobbyist. Too small and need a lot of extra care.

[@FishOutOfWaterToronto]

Gender's not a thing anymore in 2022! You sing it child!

[@artistic_spaz3724]

Love that you only sell captive bred fish!! Could donate swear jar to #teamseas

[@rhombifer566]

Mines wild caught an eats brian shrimp and even pellets just did it on a own I didn’t teach it anything

[@creeper2479]

I like the first answer. When God created them. Hahahaha

[@TheLucentFish]

Tannnngggssss!

[@seancolinclark]

👍👍

[@ronb.9850]

I sent an email yesterday I hope to hear from you0

[@fishyzinga]

😆 female,,what if they havnt decided yet 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆

[@fragboxcorals]

I think I'm entertaining that's all the matter

[@ohno316]

I'm late,but nice

[@waterforgizmo3232]

Bro…. If it cost you 25 cents per fish why are you greedy bastards selling them for 25$ plus???? Profit margin is only supposed to be 10-20%

[@amalchandrasena]

A bit contradictory don’t you think! I am not trying to be disrespectful or mean but if you really love these fish, you should put your camera down and quickly unbox your fix than let them wait for another 20 min. It is only 20 min but it might be life and death for a fish in that box. the black bag is to keep the light out so the stress is less and you should really open them in a dark room with less light. Imagine you are in a dark room for more than a day and suddenly someone point a flashlight in your face, how would you feel. Anyways, I hope the fish are okay and hope you can get someone to hold the camera next time so you can give your full attention to fish.

[@Coltensreefing]

Genders not a real thing anymore lolololllll just got a like

[@mattjestic1]

Seems like u got some people mad about your gender comment haha

[@fragboxcorals]

Can't please everyone :D

[@avishvohra3057]

First viewer 🥳

[@theanimalslaugh]

You guys are probably my favorite reefing channel, but have to say I’m a little disappointed with the ‘gender doesn’t exist’ joke. It just seems kinda weird to be concerned about using swear words and then make a joke that perpetuates an ignorant stereotype that results in real world harm. It’s the kind of joke that the Tucker Carlsons of the world make, and you guys are better than that.

[@ZaneSchoonraad]

Damn the world is becoming sensitive! LOL 😂😂🤣🤣

[@PnCBio]

I have to agree, the responsible/sustainable messaging is inspiring. The Fox News jokes about gender and taxes much less so... That said, I watch for the corals, not morals :).

[@matthewhayden6505]

It absolutely astonishes me how sensitive people have become. Going to find life to be quite the struggle if something as insignificant as that upsets you

[@PnCBio]

@@matthewhayden6505 Different things upset different people, it's fine. I'm sure there are things that would get your hackles up, just not the same issues. Likely, many of my opinions would clash with yours, and some would be in sync. I personally think it's fine to express your likes and dislikes, I also think people are free to ignore those stated preferences.

[@theanimalslaugh]

@@ZaneSchoonraad And I could interpret your comment as you being too sensitive. Jokes like this aren’t harmless, these kind of jokes normalize and reinforce the marginalization of trans and non-binary people. It was just disappointing to see March make such a joke.