Meet our yellow tang
When sleeping or stressed a white line appears on the flanks of this fish. They rapidly resume their solid bright yellow color with daylight. This is a good community fish, but it will also defend a preferred hiding place from intruders. Yellow tangs are an active fish that enjoys swimming around the aquarium, but it will often swim behind rocks when people are close to the aquarium. Yellow tang can live at least 40 years in the wild.

What does it eat?
Frozen and flake food, dried algae sheets

Where is it found?
Central Pacific

Fun fact
Yellow tang are Hawaii’s largest marine fish export, and one of the most popular fish in the U.S.

Read more about the yellow tang at Wikipedia and WhoZoo. Visit the yellow tang and all of the library’s marine life in our saltwater aquarium, located in the Youth Services area.