Liopropoma olneyi is a “new” species of the popular deepwater basslets which has actually been making it into the aquarium trade for some time now. If you recall the exciting deepwater collections being undertaken in the manned submersible in Curacao…
An adult Golden Basslet, Liopropoma aberrans, featured on video in an aquarium for the first time
The last time we featured the Golden basslet, Liopropoma aberrans, we were dealing with the first excellent photo of a nice juvenile. Now that Blue Harbor has scored a larger specimen they’ve wasted no time producing a new photo and…
Bladefin and golden basslets get spotlit in their own videos from Blue harbor
The Bladefin basslet, Jeboehlkia gladifer, and the Golden basslet, Liopropoma aberrans, are a couple of extremely deep water Caribbean which have only recently seen the light of day alive thanks to recent collection efforts with deep diving submersible. Our first…