SRC Member Tony Gill Posted February 12, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 12, 2014 The other thing is the number of bands on the body. Although these are indistinct in the photos, it looks like it has the characteristic 8-10 narrow bands of P. poweri rather than the 4-5 broad bands of P. meleagris. Quote 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 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. collare.jpg Whereas in this pic i below i posted earlier, the fish appears more pinkish and has a translucent yellow tail. collare2.jpg 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? The sort of differences you point out are within the range of variation I've found in other Pseudoplesiops. Aside from your photos, the only others I have are from Flores and Misool (the latter in Gerry Allen and Mark Erdmann's Reef Fishes of the East Indies). There is always the possibility that your fish actually represents a different (thus new) species, and the distribution of other pseudochromid species would lend support to that possibility. I would need to examine specimens (and perhaps more photos) before I could make judgement on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0n1c87 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Another amazing aberrant fish: super-maroon-clown (glass-box)! Wow. This is damn cool. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veliferium Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dottybacks/electric-indigo/ ORA has produced yet another new specimen! This time round, its an improved version of their popular hybrid, the Indigo Dottyback (P.fridmani x sankeyi). Instead of the old colouration, this improved version has a 3 toned body; a more intense indigo banding running along the dorsal region, more intense black band and whiter abdomen as compared to the old hybrid which was first bred in 2006. Looking forward to see some specimens of their new project (including the E.gravieri) in our local LFS ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted February 14, 2014 Senior Reefer Share Posted February 14, 2014 http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dottybacks/electric-indigo/ ORA has produced yet another new specimen! This time round, its an improved version of their popular hybrid, the Indigo Dottyback (P.fridmani x sankeyi). Instead of the old colouration, this improved version has a 3 toned body; a more intense indigo banding running along the dorsal region, more intense black band and whiter abdomen as compared to the old hybrid which was first bred in 2006. Looking forward to see some specimens of their new project (including the E.gravieri) in our local LFS ! very stunning indigo 2.0! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dottybacks/electric-indigo/ ORA has produced yet another new specimen! This time round, its an improved version of their popular hybrid, the Indigo Dottyback (P.fridmani x sankeyi). Instead of the old colouration, this improved version has a 3 toned body; a more intense indigo banding running along the dorsal region, more intense black band and whiter abdomen as compared to the old hybrid which was first bred in 2006. Looking forward to see some specimens of their new project (including the E.gravieri) in our local LFS ! Gorgeous! Yes hope to see some in our next ORA shipment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 LADD. Small conspic! 3.75". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 Interesting fish: Ophioblennius Steindachneri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted February 15, 2014 Senior Reefer Share Posted February 15, 2014 super rare garden eel. heteroconger cobra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted February 15, 2014 Senior Reefer Share Posted February 15, 2014 Gorgeous! Yes hope to see some in our next ORA shipment! dejong's previous shipment had some very nice indigos too, but i think the latest by ORA is even more refined! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 15, 2014 Author Share Posted February 15, 2014 Trimma Papayum (Raja Ampat, Flores, North Sulawesi-Bunaken Wall) Trimma Sp (North Sulawesi-Bunaken Wall) Deepwater Chromis Sp (North Sulawesi-Bunaken Wall) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aray Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 by Chingchai.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenaellyn Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 nice but he has 'sleepy' looking eyes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Ng Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Nice fishes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Three rare Plectranthias Plectranthias Sp. (likely to be plectranthias winniensis), Japan and Cebu Plectranthias Sp., found in Japan, very deepwater. Plectranthias Sp., range unknown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 juvenile chromis brevirostris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Very nice misbar multibar angelfish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 Newly collected! The deep and beautiful Tattoo Jawfish (Opistognathus Decorus)! Size: 10cm (approx 4.5"). Price: Bidding in japan starts from S$5000 to buy now price of S$8750. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 Beautiful sunrise anthias. (Pseudanthias sp.) from australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 Plectranthias Longimanus Plectranthias Altipinnatus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted February 22, 2014 Author Share Posted February 22, 2014 Odontanthias Elizabethae!!! Caught in Big Island Hawaii at 200m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terryz_ Posted February 22, 2014 Share Posted February 22, 2014 Newly collected! The deep and beautiful Tattoo Jawfish (Opistognathus Decorus)! Size: 10cm (approx 4.5"). Price: Bidding in japan starts from S$5000 to buy now price of S$8750. BEAUTIFUL!!! Price is not too ex too.. Quote Member of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Tony Gill Posted February 24, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 24, 2014 so extremely cryptic. the dead photos are also so bad and rotten! C. bibulus is nice and has potential to look amazing!! black striped. I agree with you on the dead photos! It was a shame because the original photos weren't too bad ... just bad scanning and production. I think almost all of the species have high potential as aquarium fish. Even the apparently drab ones have attractive attributes, like subtle spots of bright red or pink. My favourite species is Chlidichthy clibanarius. If anyone is interested, you can download my paper for free here: http://www.saiab.ac.za/bookshop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Tony Gill Posted February 24, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 24, 2014 Cheers from Chicago guys. This thread is amazing. I was up until 5AM reading through it. We just got a couple of these weird red-tailed dottybacks in, alongside a more typically-colored specimen. I agree that they're not P. flammicauda. I haven't heard back from Dr Gill on this yet, but I'm pretty confident this will turn out to be a variant of a somewhat common species. The opercular markings are the giveaway. I'm not sure if ever responded on this. This is Pseudochromis dilectus. Pseudochromis flammicauda is a very different fish. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Tony Gill Posted February 24, 2014 SRC Member Share Posted February 24, 2014 Anyone can help me with the ID of these two rare fish! zebra goby.jpg bream.jpg The upper fish is Gymneleotris seminuda. The lower fish looks like a Diplectrum ... so a serranid not a sparid. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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