For over a decade we’ve been fascinated by hybrid marine life of all kinds and especially the ways that our beloved clownfish, angelfish, and many others turn out when their genetics get recombined in unexpected ways. While hybrid creatures may…
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New Half-Black/Lemonpeel Angelfish Hybrid produced by Bali Aquarich
In our latest visit to Mr Su famous ornamental fish hatchery, we were greeted with many fish of different sizes and slightly different coloration all of them being hybrids of Centropyge flavissima and C. vrolicki. The very strange thing with…
Xanthotis X Griffis Angelfish Hybrid – Bali Aquarich Creates Another ‘Impossible’ Cross
The yellow-ear and griffis angelfish are two species of Apolemichthys that don’t get much love with the fish fanciers but a new captive breeding first is sure to turn things around. Yet again Bali Aquarich has captive bred an exciting new…
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…
Hybrid Asfur Angelfish is the Latest WOW Fish from Bali Aquarich
The asfur angelfish, Pomacanthus asfur, is a very recognizable species from the Red Sea and a limited range around the northwest Indian Ocean. This species has been bred in Asia for many years giving rise to a variant with a…
Bali Aquarich Creates Two New hybrid Angelfish!
In our recent visit to Bali aquarich, we were greeted again with two new hybrid varieties of pygmy Angelfish. It looks like this place is an hybrid factory, every month comes with its share of new fish. Since Mr Su…
Bali Aquarich Hybrid Clarion with Passer Angelfish is a Fish to Remember
The clarion x passer hybrid angelfish was once a very rare fish that was only rarely collected from their native range of the west coast of Mexico. Back in the days, these fish would show up regularly when Clarion Angel…
Clarki X Ocellaris Clownfish is a Really Neat Hybrid
Hybrid clownfish are usually the purview of wild collected livestock but Ocean, Reefs, & Aquariums has a long track record of interesting clownfish crosses. Whether intentional like the blood orange clownfish or accidental like any number of their clarki and…
Meet The “Sturddlefish” A Bizzare Looking Accidental Hybrid
A group of Hungarian aquatic scientists on the search to preserve sturgeon eggs for caviar accidentally created this bizarre-looking hybrid. Part American paddlefish and part Russian sturgeon, the “sturddlefish” study appeared this month in the scientific journal Genes. How it happened…