This Specimen is a Great Candidate for a Queen X Rock Beauty Hybrid

Hybrid angelfish and finding them is one of the more interesting aspects to being a fan of the more than one hundred species of the most colorful and interesting fish on tropical coral reefs. Sometimes the hybrids are very obvious…

Captive Bred Rock Beauty, Bali Aquarich Strikes Again

It’s been really hot in Bali the last couple of months – seems like it would be too hot for fish to spawn, but we were wrong because the broodstock angelfish at Bali Aquarich were going at it pretty hard!…

Steinhart Aquarium’s Caribbean display is a truly realistic representation of a biotope

Few set ups truly elicit fascination and marvel quite like those done in a biotope fashion. A biotope refers to an area of uniform environmental conditions which provides a specific niche for a particular set of organisms. Because aquarists are spoilt for choice…

Rock Beauty angelfish may now be available as captive reared fish

Somewhere, someone is offering either captive bred or captive reared Rock Beauty angelfish, Holacanthus tricolor, and French angelfish, Pomacanthus paru. We’ve contacted all the usual suspects to track down the source of this exciting new availability but so far we’ve…