Like we did for the most exciting breakthrough aquarium fish of the year 2011, we’re going to recap some of the most memorable and amazing fish that we’ve seen this year. We have seen some pretty amazing ground breaking collections…
Steve Robinson sentenced to 45 days and fined $2000 for smuggling Clipperton angelfish
When is a Clipperton angelfish not a Holacanthus limbaughi? When Steve Robinson tried to import them into the US under the name of “Blue Passer” angelfish Holacanthus sp. Over two years after the veteran aquarium fish collector was caught trying…
Japanese pygmy angelfish are absolutely divine as juveniles
We don’t really need much of a reason to share with you some fabulous pictures of exquisite reef fish, but when we got these pictures of a juvenile Japanese pygmy angelfish, Centropyge interrupta, well we knew they’d be posted up…
Large male spotted angelfish struts it’s stuff on video
The spotted angelfish, Genicanthus takeuchi, is a species of reef fish so obscure that it doesn’t get hardly any airtime outside of Reef Builders where we specialize in the rare and the unusual. This video taken on a cool deeper…
From Japan with love: Japanese angelfish, Randall’s assessor and crescent-tail fairy wrasse
Route 66 Marine is well known for being a balling coral supplier but as of late they’ve been getting more and more into the rare and unusual marinelife. First it was the true personifer angelfish, Chaetodontoplus personifer, then the Lennard’s…
Small multibar angelfish from Marshall Islands is the cutest pomacanthid we’ve ever seen
If there’s any reef fish cuter than a tiny multibar angelfish then we haven’t seen it. Paracentropyge multifasciata is a fish with which we’ve been smitten since beginning in the hobby not only for its own bold color pattern but…
Captive bred Koran angelfish – another smashing success for Rising Tide
On the heals of a close call with breeding the Schooling Bannerfish, Heniochus diphueretes, the marine ornamental team at the University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab doubled down and has just released photographs and video of what is probably the…
Koi Coral Beauty angelfish holds aberrant color pattern after more than four months in captivity
Cebu reef fish are totally hot right now! It seems like everywhere we look there’s some new species, rare morph or absolutely wild aberration shipping out of the Northern Philippines. We’ve covered some aberrant pygmy angelfish before but what makes…
Male yellow pygmy angelfish from Cebu exhibits a handsome splash of black
For some reason anytime we see a picture of a ‘blackened’ yellow angelfish it is always the fuzziest, out of focus or mediocre looking specimen but new pics from Jimmy Ma are a complete exception. This large showy male Centropyge…
Hybrid multicolor angelfish from Cebu may not be a coincidence after all
Centropyge hybrids are currently the cool kids at the party and have been circulating the industry and internet so widely that you might think it’ll be hard to pull another textbook-defying specimen out of the sea. While super rare hybrids…
