Fish/Inverts You Wish Were Available in the Hobby?

Are there any specific fish or inverts you wish were readily available in the hobby that aren’t?

  • Yes (multiple species)

    Votes: 47 71.2%
  • Yes (one species)

    Votes: 4 6.1%
  • I’m not sure/Undecided

    Votes: 10 15.2%
  • No

    Votes: 5 7.6%
  • Other (please explain)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

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Coral pipefish

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dwarf pipefish

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Cool tunicates like this lollipop
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Lace corals
 

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Also anything cryptic or symbiotic. The tiny coral crabs and shrimp and so on that every wild reef is chock full of. An extreme and impractical for the hobbyist example being these colonial pistol shrimp they live entirely inside a sponge:

 

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Coral pipefish

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dwarf pipefish

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Cool tunicates like this lollipop
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Lace corals
+1 on lace corals and tunicates!
That scissor tailed shrimp is actually available by the way.
 
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Also anything cryptic or symbiotic. The tiny coral crabs and shrimp and so on that every wild reef is chock full of. An extreme and impractical for the hobbyist example being these colonial pistol shrimp they live entirely inside a sponge:


That pistol shrimp is actually the one I referenced in my initial post - cool stuff!
 

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By prepared foods do you mean dry/pellets?
If so then Pellets alone aren’t enough to sustain any constant moving fish unless fed 5/6 times a day IMHO. Ontop of that they need a peaceful introduction where they aren’t constantly pestered to be happy and healthy so yes acclimation to captivity is a big hurdle with these wrasses.
When I say prepared foods I mean anything that isn't live. Includes frozen.
 

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Coral pipefish

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dwarf pipefish

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Cool tunicates like this lollipop
61_BRYOZOA_header-2000x1308.jpg

Lace corals
I assume dwarf pipefish is a typo because that looks like a picture of dwarf dartfish. I actually saw those on a wholesale list last week but didn't pull the trigger because I was going out of town for a while.
 

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I’d love some Aioliops megastigma but they’re hard to come across over here. Plus they need to be in groups making it harder to pull the trigger for me.
 

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Surge wrasse
Golden Dwarf Moray
Crosshatch Triggers
Goldenback Trigger

I just lost my dwarf moray eels and crosshatch triggers. I’m devastated knowing that they are not going to be available again for some time.
 
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Been awhile and I'm curious again. For another fish I'll put a Sea Moth (any Eurypegasus sp.) and for another invert I'll put the Machine Gun Coral Shrimp/the Green Acropora Commensal Shrimp (Coralliocaris graminea - it's a pistol shrimp that lives in pairs in Acros and Montis but has two weak snaps instead of one strong snap).
 
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