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      • Duncanopsammia
      • Elegance coral
      • Euphyllia
      • Favia
      • Favites
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      • Indophyllia
      • Lobophyllia
      • Micromussa
      • Scolymia
      • Symphyllia
      • Trachyphyllia
      • Turbinaria
    • SPS Corals
      • Acropora
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      • Cyphastrea
      • Gardinoseris
      • Leptoseris
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      • Millepora/Fire Coral
      • Montipora
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      • Trimma sp.
      • yasha
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Up Close with an Aberrant Pictichromis Dottyback
Jake Adams Oct 22, 2018

Dottybacks are some of the most colorful, small & hardy perfect aquarium fish, and this is especially true of the several different species of Pictichromis. These fish are packed with persona…

Jake Adams Oct 22, 2018 0 0
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A few Beautiful Pseudoplesiops collare Collected in Sulawesi
Jake Adams Sep 24, 2018

Dottybacks are a diverse group of small tropical marine fish which include many popular species such as the colorful Pictichromis and personable Pseudochromis. While many of these dottybacks…

Jake Adams Sep 24, 2018 0 0
New Species
Pseudochromis stellatus, a new species of dottyback from Raja Ampat
Jake Adams Oct 25, 2017

Pseudochromis stellatus is the newest species of dottyback to be added to the roster of reef fish from Indonesia. This new Pseudochromis was collected from Batanta and Batu Hitam in the northern …

Jake Adams Oct 25, 2017 0 0
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Top Five Rare Captive Bred Dottybacks
Jake Adams Oct 3, 2017

You know, clownfish get all the attention when it comes to domesticated strains – and angelfish get all the praise and attention when a new species is bred in captivity for the first time. But t…

Jake Adams Oct 3, 2017 0 0
News
Pseudochromis yamasakii, the Dottybelly Dottyback Gets an Official Description
Jake Adams Oct 5, 2016

Pseudochromis yamasakii is the newest species of dottyback, this time hailing not from the typical Indonesian or Filipino reefs, but from the land of the rising sun, Japan. The species was described f…

Jake Adams Oct 5, 2016 0 0
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Gorgeous Aberrant Dottybacks Collected in Philippines
Jake Adams Sep 28, 2016

Pictichromis dottybacks are a staple of the marine aquarium hobby, with strawberry and diadema dottybacks being a common and hardy fish well suited for beginner reef tanks. Since these fish are so abu…

Jake Adams Sep 28, 2016 0 0
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Fun graphic shows difference between a royal gramma and a royal dottyback
Jake Adams Feb 10, 2016

In the world of tropical reef fish, there are numerous examples of convergent evolution, where unrelated and widely separated fish develop the same color and shape. The similarity between some cases o…

Jake Adams Feb 10, 2016 0 0
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The elusive Ogilbyina salvati appears at Quality Marine
Lemon TYK Aug 9, 2015

Ogilbyina is a genus of dotty backs endemics to the Australian-Melanesian subregions of Oceania. The genus is easily diagnosed by having a triangular patch of teeth on their vomer, as well as having a…

Lemon TYK Aug 9, 2015 0 0
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Monday misnomer: Will the real Pseudoplesiops rosae please swim up?
Lemon TYK May 25, 2015

In another effort to rectify the various misnomers that plague the aquarium industry, we’ll take a look at a small innocuous dottyback that has been masquerading under an inaccurate alias for fa…

Lemon TYK May 25, 2015 0 0
News
“Leucoxanthic” Pseudochromis is a funky aberrant we’ve never seen before
Lemon TYK Apr 10, 2015

Aberrant fish show up occasionally from time to time and it’s always a game of roulette as to what form they will take. Pseudochromis are not exclusively spared from such afflictions, although i…

Lemon TYK Apr 10, 2015 0 0

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