When we speak of rare fish, damselfish are rarely the first thing that comes to mind because most aficionados would rather collect angelfish, butterflyfish and wrasses. But the trio of Chrysiptera traceyi damselfish that LiveAquaria posted up last night are about as rare as it gets in the family Pomacentridae.
Like the Johnson’s fairy wrasse, Tracey’s demoiselles come from the Marshall Islands and we have been enjoying a small group of C. traceyi for most of the year. We love the yellow and purple coloration which looks like an oddly colored and oddly shaped royal gramma but lookout for those electric lie markings to the scales, they really pop under LED light.
[LiveAquaria]
