Madagascar coral reefs of the Barren Isles are swarming with fish and reef life

Madagascar corals and fish don’t get a lot of airtime compared to their Indo-Pacific counterparts but at the Barren Isles Madagascar reef life is clearly thriving. Madagascar is home to innumerable endemic species of terrestrial plants and animals but the local waters…

Macropharyngodon vivienae: madagascar leopard wrasse starts showing up in Kenyan exports

Macropharyngodon vivienae is an exciting fish that is thought to be an endemic to Madagascar reefs and parts of the East African coastline from Natal to Durban. This is a fish so rare that we’ve only seen one live specimen…

Amphiprion latifasciatus, the Madagascar Anemonefish hits in Japan, hints at new imports from Western Indian Ocean

Amphiprion latifasciatus, the Madagascar Anemonefish is a rare species from the western Indian Ocean that recently hit in Japan.  Two pairs of Ampiprion latifasciatus were successfully imported: one pair is for B-Box Aquarium and other pair is for Namamugi Kaisuigyo…

Short-nosed Tripodfish Recorded for the First Time in the Red Sea

A member of the Tetraodontiform family Triacanthidae has been recorded for the first time in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. The Short Nosed Tripodfish, Triacanthus biaculeatus, is widespread across the whole Indo–West Pacific, ranging from the…

Surge Marine Life Breeds Zebrasoma Hybrid Tangs with Unknown Parentage

Florida-based aquaculture facility Surge Marine Life has announced that they have successfully bred and raised Zebrasoma spp. tangs, the result of which is a batch of hybrids of unknown parentage. The family-owned and operated company teased some shots of captive-raised…

Tiger Angelfish Bred by Poma Labs for the First Time

It feels like we are living in a Golden Age of Angelfish breeding as this week, Dr. Matt Wittenrich, Co-Founder & CEO of Poma Labs Inc, announced that his company has bred and raised the Tiger angel, Apolemichthys kingi, for…

Holy Grail Flasher Wrasse lands at The Abyss

The term Holy Grail is overused in the reefing hobby but this fish, Paracheilinus hemitaeniatus, is surely worthy of the title. Also known as the Madagascar or Half-banded Flasher Wrasse, this species only comes from Madagascar and adjacent coastal South…

Hybrid Tiger Angelfish Makes Surprise Touchdown at Finest Aquatics

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…

Coral Sea Fairy Wrasse Found Living in Papua New Guinea

It simply wouldn’t be a week of fish news without some great or interesting new discoveries from RVS Fishworld and their associated collecting stations. Today’s new development is the collection of the Coral Sea fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus squirei, wrasse from…

Whitemargin Unicornfish documented for the first time in the Mediterranean

According to the Biological Invasions Records journal, a Whitemargin Unicornfish, Naso annulatus, has been caught in the Maltese waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Native to islands as far apart as Hawaii and Madagascar this large species of surgeonfish is a…