Tosanoides aphrodite is a remarkable new species of anthias for a number of reasons. For starters, it’s the first member of its genus Tosanoides to be discovered outside the Pacific Ocean. …
Saltwater Fish
Resplendent Fireball Angelfish Hybrid from St. Helena Island
The ‘Resplendent Fireball’ angelfish is a naturally occurring hybrid of the semi-precious brazilian flameback angelfish (aka fireball), Centropyge aurantonotus, and the ‘unobtai…
Wild Hybrid Conspicuous Angelfish makes American Debut
The conspicuous angelfish, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus, is and has been the holy grail of saltwater angelfish for home aquariums for a generation of collectors. Sure there’s more exotic …
First Ever Blueface X Koran Angelfish Hybrid Appears in Thailand
The blueface angelfish has one of the most striking and recognizable head patterns of any large angelfish, which is why it’s such a surprise to see a ‘remix’ thereof. This incredible…
Stunning ORANGE ‘Tiger Tail’ Coral Beauty Has Hybrid Traits
The Coral Beauty angelfish is one of the most highly variable of all pygmy angelfish species. Ranging from East Africa in the Indian Ocean to the Central Pacific Ocean, it’s no surprise that thi…
Cirrhilabrus sanguineus – Red Blotched Fairy Wrasse Collected in Mauritius
Cirrhilabrus sanguineus, the red-blotched fairy wrasse is a very rare, deepwater species of fairy wrasse from the Indian Ocean that we’ve never personally seen in the aquarium trade. A few lonel…
First Live Pictures of a Spectacular Supermale Lennardi Wrasse!
The Lennardi Wrasse is clearly one of the most colorful and beautiful of all the medium and large size wrasses. As beautiful as Lennardi wrasses are, all the specimens that we’ve seen to date ha…
African Flameback Angelfish Successfully Bred by Sustainable Aquatics
Despite being one of my personal favorite pygmy angelfishes, we’ve never really had a great reason to write about African flameback angelfish, until now. In an unexpected video release Sustainab…
Face to Face with the $18K Debelius Angelfish
The Debelius is one of the rarest and most elusive of all the Pygmy angelfish. Despite writing about this species for nearly a decade, we had never seen a living specimen until a few weeks ago in Germ…
The ‘First’ Hybrid Angelfish, Holacanthus townsendi
Marine aquarists love their saltwater angelfish and we at Reef Builders especially love the hybrid angelfish specimens. The way they express the genes of their respective parent species can be highly …