Saltwater Fish

Awesome Fish Spotlight: The under appreciated Chaetodon wiebeli

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  1. Leptonepthya_Lordhowensis says:

    These fellas are one of my favorite BFs, I live in Hong Kong so I get to see them very often. However they are rarely seen in our LFS, but very common in seafood vendors if you know where and when to find them. Because they are the most common BF in Hong Kong, it’s definitely not uncommon for a fisherman to have one entangled their nets. Therefore the only way to get one is from a fisherman and the competition is INTENSE. As a matter of fact C. weibeli are highly sought after for ornamental and for food purposes. A lot of people love to eat them or have one in an aquarium. In the past years I have had found andkept these fellas but most of them died, as most fishermen would not treat them like general seafood instead of pet fish, Usually they are caught using gill nets, thrown around and are placed inside very cramped live wells and seafood holding tanks with very poor conditions. So that they are usually scratched and very injured by the time they reach the market let alone arriving home, and everyone knows BFs are delicate as hell. Imagine how difficult to keep one alive let alone encouraging a BF with cloudy eyes, internal and external infection and damage, uronema and ammonia/carbon dioxide poisoning, to eat anything. Lately I am,able to successfully get a relatively high quality specimen through directly contacting a fisherman who properly quarantined the fish and fed it. It is now in my Waterbox 130.4 low light reef tank.

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