What fish are you looking for but just cannot seem to find?

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Like the title says....we all have fish on our bucket lists....which one are yours? which ones can you just not find anymore or at all?
 

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Rhomboid Wrasse......can still find them but since Pacific Island Aquatics closed, there is only one other place I buy fish from.

They have them but not very often.
 

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peppermint angel, when i first saw it i was like "i got to get me one of these"...

until i saw the price :(
 

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yeah, price is crazy on peps.... but good as those guys are very hard to keep from my readings!
 

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very true, although ive always been that type of person where if im not challenged, im Bored. lol
 

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A yellow fish that only gets about 4", is peaceful and appropriate for a sps reef with no sand bed.
 

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+1 on the Radiant Wrasse, been actively looking for past year plus. Have only seen a couple not so healthy looking adults and really only want a juvenile.

Cheers, Todd
 

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Diamond Tail Wrasse/ Flame Wrasse/ Queen Angel. Diamond Tail cuz I can't find it. Flame because I can't afford it. Queen Angel because it's too big so I can't house it. :'(
 

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Oh boy.

French Butterfly (Progathodes guyanensis)
Bank Butterfly (Progathodes aya)
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Sebastepistes cyanostigma.
Yellow fuzzy dwarf lion.
Blue/purple fuzzy dwarf lion.
A female valentini puffer that is guaranteed to pair up with my male. I know I'll never find one, after all no one can guarantee the two fish would pair up. It's something I want though lol. I'm sure I could but a female and test it. But if it doesn't work, then I'm stuck with a fish with no tank to put it in!
Juvenile eastern red rock cod.
Golden dwarf moray.
Yea, I'm a predator fish fan :)
 

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It would have to be a bonded pair of Orange Spot Filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) but they are really hard to feed :(. Eventually I am going to try, I know it can be done.
 

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I have been searching for 4 zebra bar gobies (dartfish) to keep the one I have company in my tank. No one has them nor can seem to get them in.
 

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For me it is just a male Naso Tang. i know you can find them evrywhere but the three times I got my hand on one, they died, plus I already have 2 tangs and 2 columbian shark catfish (about 11 inches long)
 

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For the longest it was a whitetail bristletooth tang but I found a healthy one of those a couple of months ago. Now my list is a Diamond tail flasher wrasse and a radiant wrasse.
 
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Wow...I usually can get the radiant wrasses from a diver friend in Hawaii...he also runs a wholesale company that gets them from the coast of Africa ( I think...or maybe the Red Sea ?)...he likes to send care packages of fish.....I tend to send care packages of coral...so long distance frag swapping :) next time I'll talk to him and see if he has some that he will QT and send to me....let me know if you really would like one....us reefers need to look out for each other :)
 

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