Digiman’s rocky reef tank is a rare fish paradise

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKDwMmS08A4&feature=channel[/youtube] Mr. Tay, more commonly known online as Digiman from Singapore, is a rare fish enthusiast that has been featured on ReefBuilders on a few occasions. Enthusiast is an understatement to his passion and Digiman is someone who knows his…

Sprawling galleries of extremely rare fish and corals springs up on the new Russo’s Reef website

If you’ve been in the hobby a long time and you think you’ve seen it all, you ought to go take a look at the extensive amount of rare fish and coral photos that have been uploaded to the new…

Rare Lipogramma klayi basslet from Curacao makes it all the way to Bangkok

It’s always our pleasure to see rare deep water species start showing up in aquarium trade more recently. This time is not a shocking stripe color basslet such as the Candy, but a lesser seen Lipogramma klayi as it is…

Flathead Perch appears again- this time in Thailand!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAxtv_5YLkg[/youtube] After we recently reported about a very special Flathead Perch, Rainfordia opercularis, arriving in the US and few weeks ago in Japan, now we would like to inform you that this species is appearing in the trade a little…

OMG! Stunning Rainfordia opercularis appears at Blue Harbor

The Rainfordia opercularis is one of the most uncommon reef fish we know about and its not to often this rare specimen available in the market. We don’t know too much about this specific specimen except it’s in the hands of…

Chris Campbell’s fish tank is a welcome throwback to the days of pure fish keeping.

Once upon a time, fish keeping was the main event of the marine aquarium hobby and invertebrates and corals were barely even a fringe; had blogging been developed earlier this site would have been called ‘Fish Keepers’ or something like…

Unusual dottyback shows inverse coloration of Pictichromis caitlinae

We have here a few images documenting what appears to be a Pictichromis diadema with an unusual magenta coloration. Whereas P. diadema has a patch of magenta solely on the topside of it’s head and anterior part of the body…

Black Tang Video shows what a perfect quality specimen looks like

[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-YLciao2M[/youtube] The black tang, Zebrasoma rostratum, is not an extremely rare fish here in the United States, but there’s a perfectly good reason why we haven’t bothered to shoot a video of one so far. Most captive aquarium…

New Gramma dejongi video only fuels our desire for this Cuban rarity

The rare fish hits just keep on rolling this week with a fresh new video of Gramma sp. dejongi, the most sensational new Caribbean fish in years which has yet to be formally described. We first broke the news of…

Ultimate rare fish video ID competition with The Reef Aquarium vol. 3 and Angelfishes of the World up for grabs

[youtube width=”670″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzz9PImSYvc[/youtube] Here we have a video of an amazing rare fish collection, neigh, the most amazing rare fish collection. Instead of talking about the singular, uber rarity of any of the fish and what kind of sports car…