coralfriend Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hybrid? ?cross? Beautiful fish! Isn't it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted February 2, 2014 Senior Reefer Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hybrid? ?cross? Beautiful fish! Isn't it? absolutely absolutely stunning!!! i think koran x emperor? is this fish available now or is this an old picture? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralfriend Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 This fish is being kept by a Tai Wan Aquarist(Stanley Shen). The picture is sent from him. The way of keeping a large group of angel fish in a bare bottom tank is not accept by majority US reefer nowaday. We can't denied that it is a traditional popular way of fish keeping in Hong Kong and Tai Wan. No matter what this is really a rare beautiful fish. Any expert can explain why Emperor angel is not likely to hybridize with other species? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member flo_reeftank Posted February 2, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hybrid? ?cross? Beautiful fish! Isn't it? [/quo Impressive very nice fishes and expensive love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hybrid? ?cross? Beautiful fish! Isn't it? Wow a very impressive and rare hybrid of emperor angelfish!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 Any expert can explain why Emperor angel is not likely to hybridize with other species? Some fishes are just not as promiscuous as other fishes. They rarely hybridize with other fish, emperor angel being one of them. Another example is how common queen x blue angel to produce townsendi. However found in the same area the rock beauty on the other hand does not hybridize as readily with queen. We have so far only heard and seen one rock beauty hybrid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member jc85 Posted February 4, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 4, 2014 Hong Kong reefers has been great appreciation of beautiful fishes for many years. Unlike other countries, most reefers are coral craze. It almost never fail to amaze me the selection of species they have along the goldfish street! Quote Earth Conservation Blog My Marine Blog For All Sengkang Residents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Snoopyhamburger Posted February 5, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 5, 2014 http://youtu.be/ol3V9q91qSU Anyone know what kind of clown fish it is? Saw on Reefbuilders.Its a Golden Clown. Quote steak pls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACCK Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Actually this is an easy way of keeping fish. I presume its coppered (when needed) or medicated straight into this tank . V sterile environment but its still a success Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACCK Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Actually this is an easy way of keeping fish. I presume its coppered (when needed) or medicated straight into this tank . V sterile environment but its still a success Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veliferium Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 Don't know if this was shared before! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Tony Gill Posted February 6, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 6, 2014 Three amazing deepwater fishes photographed in Cebu, Mactan Island. Deepwater Chromis Brevirostris brevi.jpg brevi 2.jpg Deepwater Tryssogobius Sp tryssogobius sp.jpg tryssogobius sp 2.jpg tryssogobius sp 3.jpg tryssogobius sp 4.jpg tryssogobius sp 5.jpg Deepwater Pseudochromis Sp. (50m and deeper) dottyback sp.jpg dottyback sp 2.jpg dottyback sp 3.jpg dottyback sp 4.jpg dottyback sp 5.jpg dottyback sp 6.jpg dottyback sp 7.jpg Great to see these photos. This is Pseudoplesiops collare, a species I described over 20 years ago with Jack Randall and Alasdair Edwards. (It was actually the first fish species I ever named.) This species is very rare in museum collections ... I am aware of only four specimens. I'd be very interested to hear more details on where they were photographed, etc., as I am currently working up a major paper revising the genus Pseudoplesiops. Thanks, Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted February 6, 2014 Senior Reefer Share Posted February 6, 2014 Great to see these photos. This is Pseudoplesiops collare, a species I described over 20 years ago with Jack Randall and Alasdair Edwards. (It was actually the first fish species I ever named.) This species is very rare in museum collections ... I am aware of only four specimens. I'd be very interested to hear more details on where they were photographed, etc., as I am currently working up a major paper revising the genus Pseudoplesiops. Thanks, Tony It's a pleasure and honor to have you here dr gill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Tony Gill Posted February 6, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 6, 2014 Yuri, Digi, and anyone else. i have recently been sent a picture of an unknown dottyback for ID. it has however, an unsual tail. it is slightly rhomboidal in shape. the only dottyback i know with a diamond tail is Ogilbyna verlifera, the sailfin dottyback. however there are very few images of it online and it is found in australia. the males have very long diamond tails like lanceolatus fairy wrasse. this dottyback is found in cebu, philippines. i suspected it was afterall, O. verlifera, but a female. with an under devleoped tail and subdued coloration. here is a video from shutterstock with an identical fish swimming in this time, indonesia. it is labelled as O. velifera female. is this accurate, i don't know. i have e-mailed dottyback authority Dr. Anthony Gill and hopefully we'll get a reply. video here -> http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-2534186-stock-footage-female-adult-sailfin-dottyback-ogilbyina-velifera-swimming-underwater-in-indonesia.html so what do you think? The fish in the photo appears to be a new species closely related to Pseudochromis reticulatus (from north-western Australia), P. pictus (SE Indonesia) and P. jace (NE Indonesia (West Papua)). I am currently working on another new species in the group (which is characterised by, among other things, the unusual caudal-fin shape) from NE Indonesia. I have some juvenile specimens from Cebu that may be the same as species in the photo here, but it would be good to have larger specimens for study. The pseudochromid in the footage from Indonesia is P. pictus. Thanks, Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Tony Gill Posted February 6, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 6, 2014 This is what dottyback? id pls.... is it rare?? This is a species of Lubbockichthys, possibly one of the new ones I'm working on from Cebu. Lubbockichthys species are difficult to tell apart ... I have been working on the genus for a couple of decades and still need x-rays to identify some of the species! There is a lot of confusion at the moment about these species, as several are often identified as Pseudoplesiops rosae. This error appears to have originated from a couple of guide books published by Rudie Kuiter, but has been perpetuated in the aquarium hobby. Real P. rosae is a very different fish: very small (around 3 cm) with large scales. There are photos of it here: http://research.kahaku.go.jp/zoology/Fishes_of_Andaman_Sea/contents/pseudochromidae/03.htmlhttp://research.kahaku.go.jp/zoology/Fishes_of_Andaman_Sea/contents/pseudochromidae/03.html The coloration can be very variable, ranging from green or brown to bright yellow or bright red. The dark marking behind in the eye is usually present, but is sometimes difficult to see. Thanks, Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 Don't know if this was shared before! Wow a big tank with a lot of fishes! Some very difficult to keep species like venustus and lennardi. I even see a terelabrus sp. from maldive if i am not wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted February 7, 2014 Senior Reefer Share Posted February 7, 2014 beautiful aberrant asfur as well as the coral sea variant of P. rubricaudalis. the dorsal and tail fin looks very much like flavianalis actually! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 8, 2014 Author Share Posted February 8, 2014 Great to see these photos. This is Pseudoplesiops collare, a species I described over 20 years ago with Jack Randall and Alasdair Edwards. (It was actually the first fish species I ever named.) This species is very rare in museum collections ... I am aware of only four specimens. I'd be very interested to hear more details on where they were photographed, etc., as I am currently working up a major paper revising the genus Pseudoplesiops. Thanks, Tony Hi Dr Gill, It's awesome to have you here! An expert on board to clear our doubts and myths in dottybacks! This collare pic that i attached from fishbase looks quite different from those i posted. In Jack Randall picture below it is more brownish and lack a yellow tail. Whereas in this pic i below i posted earlier, the fish appears more pinkish and has a translucent yellow tail. Since you said both are the same species, which is collare, does collare has two color forms? One brown one pink? Or is it just the photo quality that caused the color difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 8, 2014 Author Share Posted February 8, 2014 This is a species of Lubbockichthys, possibly one of the new ones I'm working on from Cebu. Lubbockichthys species are difficult to tell apart ... I have been working on the genus for a couple of decades and still need x-rays to identify some of the species! There is a lot of confusion at the moment about these species, as several are often identified as Pseudoplesiops rosae. This error appears to have originated from a couple of guide books published by Rudie Kuiter, but has been perpetuated in the aquarium hobby. Real P. rosae is a very different fish: very small (around 3 cm) with large scales. There are photos of it here: http://research.kahaku.go.jp/zoology/Fishes_of_Andaman_Sea/contents/pseudochromidae/03.htmlhttp://research.kahaku.go.jp/zoology/Fishes_of_Andaman_Sea/contents/pseudochromidae/03.html The coloration can be very variable, ranging from green or brown to bright yellow or bright red. The dark marking behind in the eye is usually present, but is sometimes difficult to see. Thanks, Tony Is this fish Lubbockichthys Multisquamatus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 8, 2014 Author Share Posted February 8, 2014 Super rare and big size (6cm) apricot basslet (plectranthias garrupellus) appeared at Japan Aquarise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 8, 2014 Author Share Posted February 8, 2014 Hardy and majestic! Paraplesiops Meleagris (Southern Blue devil) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terryz_ Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Hardy and majestic! Paraplesiops Meleagris (Southern Blue devil) southern.jpg southern2.jpg southern3.jpg It actually looks more like poweri compare to meleagris.. The body shape and color leans more towards poweri unless this is a very small specimen. Quote Member of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 8, 2014 Author Share Posted February 8, 2014 It actually looks more like poweri compare to meleagris.. The body shape and color leans more towards poweri unless this is a very small specimen. The website updated it as southern blue. And southern blue is meleagris. I can't really tell the difference btween poweri and meleagris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terryz_ Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 The website updated it as southern blue. And southern blue is meleagris. I can't really tell the difference btween poweri and meleagris. The body coloration and body shape.. Quote Member of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Tony Gill Posted February 12, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 12, 2014 I agree that it looks more like P. poweri, particularly in the head markings. This website has good photos of all Paraplesiops species, including photos of juveniles of several: http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/genus/1097. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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