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Saltwater Fish

Blue Hippo Tang — What's a Fair Price?

Based on 11 in-stock listings across 2 online reef vendors, updated September 4, 2026.

Lowest today
$44.99
Median
$101.24
Highest today
$239.99
In stock now
11

A typical Blue Hippo Tang sells for around $101.24 right now. Anything near $44.99 is at the cheap end of today's market. Prices below are the cheapest current listing per vendor.

Captive-bred premium: captive-bred/aquacultured Blue Hippo Tang listings have a median of $157.49 vs $89.99 for wild-caught — a 75% premium.

Cheapest per vendor

VendorListingPrice
Top Shelf Aquatics Atlantic Blue Tang — S $44.99 view →
Reefwise Blue Hippo Tang (Small) $59.99 view →

Shipping differs by vendor (free-shipping thresholds, flat overnight rates) and can change which vendor is cheapest to your door.

Reading today's numbers

Today's 11 in-stock listings span $44.99 to $239.99 — the high end is 5.3× the low. For fish, a gap like that usually comes from listings at different size classes, or captive-bred versus wild-caught stock, rather than one vendor simply overcharging. The $101.24 median is the fairest single benchmark: half of those listings sit at or below it.

Keeping it alive once it arrives

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A new fish cares most about being acclimated gradually to your tank's own water rather than dropped straight into it — shipping bag water is best kept out of the tank — and then about being offered food it will actually take. Chewy — a general pet retailer that sells no live coral or marine fish, and is not one of the vendors this index tracks — carries reef salt mixes, saltwater test kits, marine fish food, and coral and invertebrate food.

Price history

The market median for Blue Hippo Tang has changed 23 times in 54 days of tracking. Median shifts here usually come from vendor promotion events or the in-stock mix changing rather than gradual drift (how these prices actually behave) — genuine repricings land on the price drops page as we observe them.

$66.95$103$140Jul 13: $117Jul 14: $99.99Jul 15: $89.99Jul 16: $99.99Jul 17: $99.99Jul 18: $99.99Jul 19: $99.99Jul 20: $117Jul 21: $117Jul 22: $117Jul 23: $117Jul 24: $117Jul 25: $117Jul 26: $117Jul 27: $99.99Jul 28: $89.99Jul 29: $71.99Jul 30: $71.99Jul 31: $71.99Aug 1: $89.99Aug 2: $89.99Aug 3: $94.49Aug 4: $94.49Aug 5: $94.49Aug 6: $94.49Aug 7: $94.49Aug 8: $94.49Aug 9: $94.49Aug 10: $98.99Aug 11: $89.99Aug 12: $89.99Aug 13: $89.99Aug 14: $89.99Aug 15: $89.99Aug 16: $89.99Aug 17: $89.99Aug 18: $99.49Aug 19: $117Aug 20: $117Aug 21: $117Aug 22: $117Aug 23: $117Aug 24: $99.99Aug 25: $94.99Aug 26: $94.99Aug 27: $89.99Aug 28: $123Aug 29: $111Aug 30: $111Aug 31: $112Sep 1: $135Sep 2: $112Sep 3: $111Sep 4: $101Jul 13Sep 4

Common questions

Every answer below is computed from this page's own numbers at build time, and updates with the daily data refresh.

How much does Blue Hippo Tang cost?
The median price is $101.24, based on 11 in-stock listings across 2 online reef vendors as of September 4, 2026. The range runs from $44.99 at the low end to $239.99 at the high end.
Which vendor has the cheapest Blue Hippo Tang?
Top Shelf Aquatics has the lowest current listing at $44.99, as of September 4, 2026. Prices exclude shipping, which differs by vendor and can change which store is cheapest to your door.
Which vendors sell Blue Hippo Tang?
2 of the online reef vendors the index tracks list it as of September 4, 2026: Top Shelf Aquatics at $44.99 and Reefwise at $59.99. Each figure is that vendor's cheapest current listing.
Has the price of Blue Hippo Tang changed?
Yes. The market median has changed 23 times across the 54 days the index has tracked it. Shifts here usually come from vendor promotion events or the in-stock mix changing rather than gradual drift.
Are captive-bred Blue Hippo Tang more expensive than wild-caught?
Captive-bred and aquacultured listings have a median of $157.49, versus $89.99 for wild-caught — a 75% premium, as of September 4, 2026.
Is Blue Hippo Tang in stock right now?
11 of the 67 listings the index tracks for it were in stock as of September 4, 2026, across 2 vendors.

Cite this page: Reef Price Index, "Blue Hippo Tang price," data through September 4, 2026. https://reefpriceindex.com/species/blue-tang

Related reading from our data

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