A hybrid tiger angelfish has just splashed down in the United Kingdom and we couldn’t be more excited to share the story of this exceedingly rare specimen with our readers. This small mutt of Apolemichthys kingi is only the fourth example of…
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Top 10 Angelfish Stories of 2019
It’s no secret that marine angelfish are some of the highest profile pets for our saltwater and reef aquariums, and they are certainly among our favorite reef animals to write about. With a circumtropical distribution, their captive breeding breakthroughs, aberrations,…
Apolemichthys guezei, the ‘Bigfoot’ of Rare Fish Photographed in Reunion
Something happened last week in the depths of the Western Indian Ocean, off the remote French outlying territory of the Island of Reunion that rare fish collectors will never forget. Patrick Plantard, a ‘reef guy’ and friend to many of…
Captive Bred Regal Angelfish Breakthrough by Bali Aquarich
The regal angelfish is one of the most iconic of all marine angelfishes and the last genus to be captive bred, until now. If we had to take bets on who would be the first to achieve a breakthrough with…
Top 10 Angelfish Stories of 2018
It’s no secret that we are big fans of saltwater angelfish and we’re not the only ones, Angelfish are beautiful and diverse in their size and colors when they are normally colored, but the aberrations, rare species and variety of…
Cirrhilabrus sanguineus Brought to America by TSM Corals
For decades the red blotched fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus sanguineus, has been a holy grail of wrasse collectors and pretty much known only from books and pictures. The earlier this year expert deep diving fish collector Tim Bennett shocked the world by hauling…
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 species like the Debelius and Tiger angelfish but that doesn’t detract from the high…
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 lonely specimens of Cirrhilabrus sanguineus have made their way to Asia…
Dejong Marine Life’s Insane InterZoo 2018 Reef Tank
Alongside the deluge of new products we see every two years at InterZoo is the magnificent 3 meter (10 foot) square reef tank display of Dejong Marine Life. This giant display is quite literally an oasis of reef life in…
RCT Hawaii is Back in Action, with Captive Raised Convict Tangs
Frank Baensch of Reef Culture Technologies is back to raising fish and their latest target is the Hawaiian convict tang. You could be forgiven for not immediately recalling who and what RCT Hawaii is but let us refresh your memory. …
