It’s been far too long since we’ve featured a real nice hybrid angelfish morph so we thought to revisit the Tigerpyge living in Hong Kong. Three of them to be exact, living happily together in the aquarium of frequent contributor…
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Clam Mania setting up to satisfy your desire for Tridacna
Giant clams are awesome and there’s never been a better time to get into Tridacna. Clams are available from Cocos to cooks, from Vietnam to Tuamotu as well as many farm raised specimens. Every fish store and e-trailer has a…
Xanthic Eibl’s Angelfish is a cleverly disguised impostor of the stunning Tigerpyge hybrid.
Crosses between Centropyge flavissima and Centropyge eibli so spectacular and are simply one of the most beautifully created natural hybrids that a nickname has been coined just for them – Tigerpyge. The tigerpyges are usually collected in the Indian Ocean where…
Juveniles of the highly uncommon blue eyed lemonpeels are hard to come by
Juvenile lemonpeel angelfish lose their black spot fairly early in their life, so getting of that size with the spot is not easy. Throw in the odds of finding a cocos-island blue eyed lemonpeel of similar stature, and we’re infringing…
The “pygmy kingi” Eibli x Halfblack angelfish gets an update
When we first shared about this unique hybrid four months ago, we provided pretty subpar pictures of the fish, disallowing us to showcase it’s truly unique appearance. The squiggly maze like markings that is inscribed in this fairly common hybrid…
A fresh crop of joculator angelfish come to the U.S. via Global Reef Supply
The joculator angelfish, Centropyge joculator, is one of the rarest pygmy angelfish in the aquarium trade which is actually available, albeit ever so infrequently. It’s been quite a while since some fresh joculators entered the trade and a fresh batch…
Trimma maiandros is a new nano goby that is widespread in the Indo-Pacific
Trimma maiandros is a new species of nano goby from the Indo-Pacific which was recently described. Although it seems like countless new species of Eviota and Trimma gobies are frequently described that are lacking in the color department, the new…
Costa Rica creates massive “shark park”
Costa Rica recently put together a massive new marine park that increases the area of protected waters surrounding Cocos Island five times what it was before. The Cocos Island area is home to some of the highest abundances of sharks…
The Blue Ocean in RED by Howard Hall is simply majestic
[vimeo width=”670″ height=”377″]http://vimeo.com/15907252[/vimeo] Cinematographer extraordinaire Howard Hall recently shared his latest short film “The Blue Ocean in RED,” a selection from his filming projects in 2010 to Vimeo. It was all shot with a RED One camera and Nikon lenses…
Prognathodes carlhubbsi: will the real scythe butterflyfish please swim up?
Prognathodes carlhubbsi is a species of deep cool water butterflyfish which bears a close resemblance to the classic scythe butterflyfish, P. falcifer. The image above is a screencap from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s guide to Shorefishes of the Eastern…
