Working on Reef Builders we think about Jake Adams every day, and miss the conversations we used to have with him about all things reefing. Something we spoke about a lot was Jake’s own fish collection, and he would test…
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…
Gold Crown Butterflyfish variant shows up in Japan
Following up on the story we posted several days ago regarding the gold crown butterflyfish, Chaetodon (Roaps) flavocoronatus, as we expected at least one of these specimens has shown up for sale in Japan. However, in contrast to the nearly…
Rare Butterflyfish Parade: Roa excelsa, Roaps flavocoronatus and a new Roaps tinkeri hybrid
Not sure what is in the air lately but have we got the goods on a nice handful of uber rare butterflyfish fish for you. Hot on the heels of the orange margin butterflyfish, Prognathodes basabei, we have an odd-phase…
