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Tour de BlueHarbor – Part 2. Fixing a deepwater malady

This is the second and final installment to the two part BlueHarbor tour visit. In this article, we visit one of Koji’s customers with perhaps the biggest and most impressive collection of deepwater fish ever. Rare fish aficionados, you do not want to miss this. The visit was initiated when Koji received a call requesting Read More

Sanjay Joshi’s amazing reef tank is equal parts rare fish and juicy corals

Dr. Sanjay Joshi’s incredible reef tank is a Smörgåsbord of goodies ranging from amazingly matured and colorful SPS corals, to an incredible collection of exotic reef fish. You may recognize the Joculator angelfish from the classic spawning footage of the pair, and indeed, it is the same specimen. However a lot has changed since then and the tank Read More

A fresh crop of joculator angelfish come to the U.S. via Global Reef Supply

The joculator angelfish, Centropyge joculator, is one of the rarest pygmy angelfish in the aquarium trade which is actually available, albeit ever so infrequently. It’s been quite a while since some fresh joculators entered the trade and a fresh batch of about two dozen “Jocks” has landed in the heartland of America to satisfy the Read More

It’s Business Time for a Spawning Pair of Joculator Angelfish, because it’s Wednesday!

We have a knack around Reef Builders for the newest products, the rarest fish and high caliber videos. The video above represents the last two things that RB does best by bringing you an original video of the twilight courtship and spawning of Joculator Pigmy Angelfish, Centropyge joculator from the home aquarium of Dr. Sanjay Read More

Rare Fish: Joculator Angelfish, Centropyge joculator

Yey First! The first gratuitous rare fish post of the year is of this darling juvenile joculator angelfish. This species originates from a very small range of islands in the western Indian Ocean called the Cocos-Keeling Islands. This region is “off the beaten path” and therefore the fish commands a high price because special arrangements Read More