We were interested in getting bangais for a while, but would only buy captive bred due to the information I've read about how we as aquarists have pretty well wiped out the populations on the reef. I know they can mouth-brood pretty easily and we were planning to put a pair or trio in our 20g as a dedicated tank for this purpose. I was surprised how difficult it was to find captive bred bangais for sale.

I think I remember Dr. Mark's GC Reef store mentioned plans to do this and maybe hobogato also has plans in his classroom (don't quote me on that one though) so maybe they will be available locally in the future. Other than that, I've seen captive bred bangais for sale a couple of times at Blue Zoo Aquatics online.

Also... it is a pet peave of mine when someone assumes that the only issue with dying fish is the money spent on that fish. To me that promotes the attitude that the life has no value other than monetary, which just doesn't fit well with responsible and ethical reefkeeping. Our rule of thumb in our house is that if we have lost a fish of a certain type, we will allow ourselves to try it again only if we have a strategy about what went wrong and what we could do better to insure its survival. Once we have lost two of the same type, then we have a "no more" policy.