Blackspot pygmy angelfish found living in Australia, net-caught and MAC certified

This feature of the blackspot pygmy angelfish is a great inaugural post from what will become a regular contribution from various team members of Cairns Marine. Being one of Australia’s largest marine life collectors comes with its perks and when…

Blue Eyes on a Lemon – A unique Indian ocean lemonpeel angelfish

We are pleased to present the first post by Tony Vargas featuring our own super rare Indian Ocean lemonpeel angelfish from Global Reef Supply. If you live in the NY area, be sure to catch Tony and many other fine…

Close up photos depict the unique features of the Resplendent Cherubfish

It’s been a little while since we’ve mentioned the captive bred Resplendent Cherubfish Centropyge hybrid from RCT Hawaii, but a whole crop of new images from LiveAquaria shows this aquarium gem in supreme detail. This particular Resplendent Cherubfish is the same…

The Blue Velvet Angelfish now *officially* described as Centropyge deborae

Centropyge deborae is the official name of the weird dark blue pygmy angelfish that is so far only known from one location in Fiji. As far back as June Reef Builders got word that the Blue Velvet Angelfish would be…

Koi Coral Beauty angelfish holds aberrant color pattern after more than four months in captivity

Cebu reef fish are totally hot right now! It seems like everywhere we look there’s some new species, rare morph or absolutely wild aberration shipping out of the Northern Philippines. We’ve covered some aberrant pygmy angelfish before but what makes…

Unique hybrid halfblack angelfish looks like a pygmy kingi

the Eibli’s dwarf angelfish, is a common dwarf angelfish hailing from the Indo-Pacific. It is well known in the trade as a common fish, but even more well known for its abilities to produce magnificent hybrids. The fish is promiscuous…

Hybrid clarion x passer, cyclops lemonpeel and aberrant bicolor angelfish

In the past week a slew of unusual angelfish were collected all around the world. The hybrid passer, cyclops lemonpeel and aberrant bicolor angelfishes were all but eclipsed by the bombshell news of the sensational blackspot pygmy angelfish, Centropyge nigriocella.…

Blackspot pygmy angelfish video from B-Box Aquarium is probably the world’s first

Last week we brought you sensational never before seen new pictures of a live blackspot pygmy angelfish and this week B-Box Aquarium has the honors. After leaving Reef Solutions Vanuatu who originally collected the fish, B-Box Aquarium purchased this fish…

Centropyge nigriocella, amazing new pictures of the cryptic blackspot pygmy angelfish

Huge thanks to Reef Solutions Vanuatu for sharing the pictures of a very rare, cryptic pygmy angelfish The blackspot pygmy angelfish, Centropyge nigrocella, is a fish so cryptic and rare that it is not even discussed among rare fish fanciers.…

Anampses lennardi, A. femininus and an aberrant bicolor angelfish showing off at DeJong’s InterZoo booth

The Anampses lennardi and femininus wrasses are such amazing fish that it would have been a joy to see either one of them alone at Dejong’s booth in InterZoo. Not only we were greeted by both of these fish, they…