You guys know how much we love our rare, bizarre and exotic aquarium fish but very few groups do it for us in the way that the Liopropoma basslets do. Normally coming from deepwater of both the Caribbean and the Pacific…
TSM Corals Acquires One of the Nicest Goldrim Achilles Hybrid
One thing we love about hybrids between certain species of fish is how variable their appearance can develop. Sometimes the colors of hybrids ‘cancel’ each other out leading, to an interesting but dull fish, but other times the colors compound…
First Wild Masked Angelfish Collected in Five Years Comes to U.S.
The masked angelfish from Hawaii is one of the most desirable and beautiful fish for aquariums. Despite its ghostly white appearance, the bluish face of the female and orange outline of the males is about as angelic as an angelfish…
Cirrhilabrus sanguineus Brought to America by TSM Corals
For decades the red blotched fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus sanguineus, has been a holy grail of wrasse collectors and pretty much known only from books and pictures. The earlier this year expert deep diving fish collector Tim Bennett shocked the world by hauling…
Wild Hybrid Conspicuous Angelfish makes American Debut
The conspicuous angelfish, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus, is and has been the holy grail of saltwater angelfish for home aquariums for a generation of collectors. Sure there’s more exotic species like the Debelius and Tiger angelfish but that doesn’t detract from the high…
