Rare fish lovers, it’s time we brought you an update on the SEASMART-collected, Lightning Maroon Clownfish from Papua New Guinea (PNG). Forgive the water clarity – the female Maroon Clown is always “digging”. Forgive the camera work – it was…
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False Shepard’s Hybrid Pygmy angelfish in the UK and US
The false shepard hybrid angelfish is a unique Centropyge that occurs with some regularity near ornamental marine fish collection sites in the Phillipines. Less than two years ago when the false shepard hybrid angelfish first started becoming available it was…
C-Quest Is Coming Home!
The news spread quickly this morning as C-Quest announced that it will be moving from it’s longstanding location in Puerto Rico to the Addison’s home town of Wheatland, Wyoming, roughly 1 hour north of Cheyenne. C-Quest is arguably the world’s…
Ghost Tang at World Wide Corals is a white-colored yellow tang treasure
We’ve heard of white yellow tangs being spotted in the wild before but this is the first we’ve seen of a completely ghost white yellow tang being captured for the aquarium trade. World Wide Corals just received an all white…
Lembeh Reef Video, Critter Crazy, is nothing short of the best macro video collage we’ve ever seen
[vimeo width=”670″ height=”502″]http://vimeo.com/14263769[/vimeo] This video of diving in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia by Markus Young is the last 10 minute break you need to get through the week. Go ahead and enable HD, click on fullscreen and turn the up the…
Will the real Springeri damselfish please swim up?
Chrysiptera springeri is an amazing species of damselfish which we’ve long admired. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen at least two color forms of damselfish being offered up as C. springeri: one all blue form with a clear…
Collecting expedition to new Hawaii location succeeds in catching masked angelfish
So far. That’s right, not only have divers Rob Lower and Ron Tubbs succeeded in collecting two one masked angelfish, Genicanthus personatus, but it looks like they are aiming to collect a few more before the expedition to this dive…
Proaquatix Annouced as Worldwide Distributor for Albino Clownfish – Updated!
German marine fish breeder Marcel Triessl, currently residing in South Africa, quietly announced this week that Proaquatix is the sole world distributor for Albino Ocellaris Clownfish with the exception of distribution within South Africa. No word yet on an official…
Captive Bred Cypho purpurascens still a rarity!
It is a known fact that the Oblique-Lined or Mccullochi Dottyback is still a rarity in the hobby. When Cypho purpurascens shows up in the trade, this stunning fish easily fetches $80 to $100+ for the “drab” female, with top…
Blueface Clarion and double rainbow passer angelfish are the highlights of recent Cortez Marine imports
Rarity aside, it would be hard to pick between either the amazing blueface Clarion angelfish above, or the double rainbow passer angelfish below. Both stunning Holacanthus specimens were recently caught by Cortez Marine. The odd blueface clarion was captured at…