It’s astounding how one little tweak of color or just a small change to the pattern of iconic reef fish can give them a remarkable new appearance. The latest glitch in the coral reef fish matrix is a black and…
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Golden Ocean Invests in PNG Fishermen in Another Round of Net Training
For many companies the term ‘sustainable’ is nothing more than window dressing, a buzzword to use in their marketing with only the most rudimentary effort towards achieving goals that can be tenuously described as low impact. As we’ve seen from RVS…
Parade of Pure Perfect Wild Clownfish from Papua New Guinea
We’ve been excited to see new fish and corals coming out of Papua New Guinea for nearly three years and at long last the day has finally come, at least in terms of the fish. Being in the heart of…
Papua New Guinea is Open for Aquarium Business!
It’s been nearly three years since we first learned that the trailblazers at RVS Fishworld were planning to set up operations in Papua New Guinea. After a very healthy wait, with lots of global delays, Golden Ocean PNG Limited is…
RVS Fishworld Collected The Most Misbarred Regal Angelfish to Date
Regal angelfish are a unique and singular species in their own genus so they don’t have any close relatives with which to hybridize, but they do offer fanciers their own kind of ‘shiny pokemon‘ to keep a lookout for. With…
First Gem X Scopas Hybrid Tang Collected from Madagascar
The gem x scopas tang hybrid that RVS Fishworld just showed off may not be the first one the aquarium hobby has ever seen, but it is the first one from Madagascar. Much like the circled dragonet we featured a…
Circled Dragonet Collected for the First Time in 6 Years
The circled dragonet is a very unique species of tropical reef fish that has the distinction of being one of the rarest species of this group which is rarely seen by divers, and more seldomly collected in the aquarium hobby.…
This is NOT a Blueface X Sixbar, it’s a Sixbar x Blueface Hybrid
A month ago we wrote about a super rare example of a hybrid Pomacanthus angelfish which was a cross between the blueface angelfish and the sixbar angelfish. Once again the filipino collectors have fished up an awesome hybrid angelfish specimen…
Rare White Panda Mimic Tang Discovered in the Philippines
RVS Fishworld needs to tap on the brakes a little bit because they’re fishing up hybrid and aberrant fish so often they’re starting to make them seem common! Just last week we had to agglomerate four different oddballs into a…
RVS Fishworld Stumps Us With a Wild Acanthurus Surgeonfish Hybrid
When you handle as many fish as RVS Fishworld does, especially within the Filipino region of the Coral triangle, you’re bound to come up with some real rare oddballs and hybrids. Today we learned that their network of fisherman have…