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2013 July Okinawa fish collection

Beyond 200m Odontanthias Katayamai becomes abundant and can be fished easily using hook and line. However pulling them up from them depth will only end up with a dead fish...

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Other fishes caught at the same depth

Odontanthias Unimaculatus

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callanthias japonicus

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Plectranthias sp

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Seleanthias Analis

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They are both about 18 cm. Already in the tank and acclimated. Working with different foods now.

Very big! Hope you have success with them. Do update here and share with us the tricks and methods to keep them alive.

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very rarely seen dottyback from an equally rare and obscure genus.

Chlidichthys auratus. from the red sea. its small size and cryptic nature will probably protect it from frequent collection.

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Have to say it- the adult is rather ugly. Will lemons 5 stripe turn out like that later??

nope.

B. paraleucosticticus maximum size is 15cm while leucosticticus is 21. the latter will change while former does not.

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Rare hogfish: Bodianus Leucostictus

Juvenile

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Young adult

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Adult (20cm)

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Full grown adult (male)

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digi,

i think there is a mix up here.

there seems to be two kinds of hogfishes.

Bodianus rubrisos and Bodianus oxycephalus. from kuiter's book, for reference.

what do you think?

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digi,

i think there is a mix up here.

there seems to be two kinds of hogfishes.

Bodianus rubrisos and Bodianus oxycephalus. from kuiter's book, for reference.

what do you think?

Thanks for the correction. The website i gotten the pics from were done by google translation and accuracy was compromised.

Indeed the adults r rubrisos n oxycephalus. In fact now that i recall i had seen oxycephalus females and males at osaka kaiyukan.

Rubrisos, oxycephalus and leucostictus look almost identical when they are juvi to mid adult stage.

But on a good note, that means adult leucostictus may not be as ugly as adult rubrisos or oxycephalus.

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