The Ballina Angelfish is a swimming oxymoron – it is one of the best-known yet rarely-seen rare species of angelfish yet sightings of this species are very rare. The reason for this rarity is that it is only known to occur…
Unprecedented Look At Ballina Angelfish In The Wild
The Ballina Angelfish is the Holy Grail of all marine angelfish, only known from a few locations east of Australia, usually around Ball’s Pyramid near Lord Howe Island. This region is home to not one but three illustrious angelfish being joined by…
Exquisite new video of the Ballina Angelfish at Ball’s Pyramid
Back in April this year, we posted about a video of Chaetodontoplus ballinae swimming in the wild of Ball’s Pyramid. That video has been removed since but fear not, a brand new video with better footage of this illustrious dichromatic…
Precious video of Ball’s Pyramid shows rare footage of Chaetodontoplus ballinae in the wild
Chaetodontoplus ballinae is a dichromatic beauty of legendary proportions, documented based on two trawler specimens off the deepwater Australian coast in the late 50s and 80s. One of the rarest and least known of the Chaetodontoplus genus, this angelfish is…
Classic: Blue Reef Photography is a rare fish lover’s wet dream
The following post is a classic which we originally posted way back in April 2009. It features fish which are still so rare that this post is definitely worth another turn. Ballina, semicinctus and conspicillatus angelfish, Amphichaetodon butterfly, latezonatus clownfish…
