Sea Dwelling Creatures shows off stigmata blenny and personifer angelfish

Here’s some gratuitous eye candy for the weekend. Above we have the elusive stigmata blenny, Cirripectes stigmaticus, a rarity which is infrequently exported out of Vanuatu. Below, we have a profile pic of a super studly male ‘personifer’ angelfish, Chaetodontoplus…

Sea Dwelling Creatures sprouts a new website, kicks it off with aberrant passer angelfish

We cannot imagine a cooler way for Sea Dwelling Creatures to christen their swanky new website than to get not one but two aberrant passer angelfish, Holacanthus passer. Now SDC is calling these two specimens hybrids but other than the…

LA Fishguys tours marinelife wholesaler Sea Dwelling Creatures

If you’ve ever wondered how marine fish get from the reef to your home, LA Fishguys has a new video out with a tour of Sea Dwelling Creatures in Los Angeles CA. The marinelife wholesaler is about the halfway point…

Sea Dwelling’s Yellowfin Angelfish Looks Like He’s Been In A Few Brawls

This Black & Blue angelfish may not win any beauty contests among aberrant angelfish, but it is the first time we’ve seen this species don this kind of garb. Of the many different species of Centropyge, only a few species represent…

Sea & Reef, followed by Reef Gen, bring WYSIWYG Wholesale Browsing Directly to Public Audiences

The concept of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) isn’t new; several online livestock retailers are well known for this practice.  Less well known perhaps is that some livestock wholesalers also have private WYSIWYG offerings for retailers to browse;…

Branching Leptoseris gardineri shows up in Sea Dwelling’s Furnace

Branching Leptoseris gardineri is a very unusual species of this now-popular genus which we have drooled over in books and photographs for over a decade. In pictures it seems so delicate and brittle that we long relegated this species to being…

“Tufi” damselfish and brilliant cap clownfish from Papua New Guinea are the latest reef gems revealed by Seasmart

The Tufi Damsellfish is an unidentified species of damselfish which was recently discovered by fishermen working for the Seasmart Program in Papua New Guinea. The Tufi damselfish was collected from Tufi in Oro Province of Papua New Guinea by the…

Sea Dwelling lands some amazing Mycedium chalice corals

The summer slowdown may be in full effect in terms of new products but our little pitty has got a feel on some amazing livestock coming stateside and much of it has already cleared customs. First up is a grouping…

Adding a New Fish to A Boisterous Saltwater Aquarium Display

We never thought we’d see that day that our YouTube channel would feature a how-to about adding a gold crown butterflyfish to a display tank that is already home to a large mature adult Tinker’s butterflyfish but here we are.…

The ‘Cleanest’ Flavocoronatus Butterflyfish Appears at SDC-ERI

The gold crown butterflyfish, Chaetodon flavocoronatus, is one of the rarest species of butterflyfish that we’ve been writing about since 2009, but had never seen for ourselves until last week. Closely related to the tinker’s butterflyfish from Hawaii, the declivis butterflyfish…