Blue Harbor lands a sweet blue and gold soapfish, Aulacocephalus temminckii

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOoNKN2gfvI[/youtube] Most of the rare fish that the hobby fawns over are kind of wussy fish – pygmy angelfish, fairy wrasses, nano gobies and butterflyfish – even their names sound soft. So it is with great pleasure to…

Hybrid Panther x Bumblebee grouper is both beautiful and edible

‘Fish are friends, not food”. Well, not so much for this man-made hybrid grouper. The amazing fish shown above is the result of a cross between the Panther grouper and the Bumblebee grouper (Cromileptes altivelis X Epinephelus lanceolatus). Bred for…

First video of a live Spanish Flag grouper from Absolutely Fish

The Spanish Flag grouper, Gonioplectrus hispanus, is one of the rarest and most colorful groupers in the sea and second only to the Neptune Grouper, Cephalopholis igarashiensis. Due to their deepwater habitat, it’s very rare that spanish flag groupers are…