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Reef Culture Technologies dabbles in rearing reef fish from wild harvested eggs

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Reef Culture Technologies recently announced the successful rearing of several species of marine fish which were not spawned in aquaria, but whose eggs were collected from the Ocean. Since RCT is based in Hawaii they have good access to lots of pelagic plankton and oceanic eggs. With the right size collection nets Frank Baensch & Read More

Close up photos depict the unique features of the Resplendent Cherubfish

It’s been a little while since we’ve mentioned the captive bred Resplendent Cherubfish Centropyge hybrid from RCT Hawaii, but a whole crop of new images from LiveAquaria shows this aquarium gem in supreme detail. This particular Resplendent Cherubfish is the same individual for sale in the Divers Den as of this writing and in many ways Read More

Quality Marine makes a rare move to auction limited supply of Resplendent Cherubfish

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In a move that seems highly atypical for the wholesale aquarium livestock industry (and a bit exciting), Quality Marine today announced that they will releasing their cache of Frank Baensch’s newest hybrid captive-bred Angelfish, the “Resplendent Cherubfish” , a cross between Centropyge resplendens and C. argi. What is unusual about the Resplendent Cherubfish is that these Read More

Resplendent Cherubfish is a new captive bred hybrid pygmy angelfish from Reef Culture Technologies

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The Resplendent Cherubfish is a naturally impossible hybrid crossing of the mid-Atlantic resplendent angelfish, Centropyge resplendens, and the Caribbean cherub or pygmy angelfish, Centropyge argi. This new captive breeding handywork belongs to none other than the Xyphipops experts at Reef Culture Technologies. Since Both the cherub and resplendent angelfish are members of the Xyphipops subgenus of Centropyge pygmy angelfish, Read More

Reef Culture Technologies – First to Breed Crosshatch Triggerfish, Xanthichthis mento

This just in from Reef Culture Technologies –  ”At this time we are proud to announce the first ever captive rearing of the Cherub angelfish, Centropyge argi, and the Crosshatch triggerfish, Xanthichthys mento. These species were raised as part of our research and will not be available through RCT Direct (this website).” So while we take that to mean Read More

Reef Culture Technologies already beginning to ship a few ‘Hawaiian Cherub’ angelfish

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Without context the image above shows a trio of the ubiquitous Caribbean pygmy angelfish, Centropyge argi, but if we told you these fish were made in Hawaii you might call us crazy. That is until we tell you that these Hawaiian Cherub Angelfish are actually the first captive bred pygmy angelfish from Reef Culture Technologies Read More

Reef Culture Technologies is ramping up to breed angelfish again

After a long absence from breeding marine angelfishes, we are happy to announce that Frank Baensch has already begun to get Reef Culture Technologies back into gear. For a few years in the early 2000s Frank Baensch was a prolific breeder of several species of dwarf angelfish including some common species like flame and lemonpeel Read More