Fish/Inverts You Wish Were Available in the Hobby?

[violetjones]

Not that it makes it any easier to find, but I think that's actually a photo of a gulf signal blenny. They're on my wish list too!

They go by both names! If you google sailfin blenny it comes up

 

[ARCkeeper]

They go by both names! If you google sailfin blenny it comes up

That's the problem with common names! You have no idea how hard it was for me to find an Opistognathus lonchurus. They go by three common names that are also used by at least two other species of jawfish.

 

[encrustingacro]

Not sure if these count as inverts but I would love some atlantic corals such as corals in the family meandrinidae and faviidae.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Not sure if these count as inverts but I would love some atlantic corals such as corals in the family meandrinidae and faviidae.

 

[UkiahTheTurtle]

Anything cold water especially this bright green fish I saw at the Oregon coast in a tide pool

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Anything cold water especially this bright green fish I saw at the Oregon coast in a tide pool

Do you mean a Fluffy Sculpin, by chance?

 

[JetsIrish]

Hogchokers and sea robins don't seem to be available in Canada despite populations in waters around Nova Scotia.

Funny. Sea robins are a nuisance fish for us sport fisherman.

 

[jeffww]

Any of the rock climbing gobies that live at the top of the reef slope. They are normally a drab brown or black but they can stick to rock very well and can tolerate intense light and flow. Perfect for my humilis species tank I’m planning.

 

[BleuDude]

Potters angel for me.

We see Potter's Angels here in Florida

 

[BleuDude]

That was my thought exactly!

I remember when they were $10 to 15 depending on size.

 

[xyzner]

That was my thought exactly!

Wait, how expensive are yellow tangs now? I’ve been in and out of the hobby, and I’m aware of the Hawaii ban, but these guys used to be $20 and as common in a LFS as clownfish 15 years ago.

 

[Chortanator]

Helmet urchin, I love how smooth these guys are

 

[Chortanator]

Wait, how expensive are yellow tangs now? I’ve been in and out of the hobby, and I’m aware of the Hawaii ban, but these guys used to be $20 and as common in a LFS as clownfish 15 years ago.

$250 for captive bred in NS, Canada since Hawaii shut down their yellow tang export

 

[Pankney72]

That thing has scarlet rot…

 

[MoshJosh]

That thing has scarlet rot…

Glad I'm not the only one around here playing Elden Ring!

 

[IKD]

that's not a reef safe fish

That’s not a wife-safe fish either…

 

[Waynerock]

Miniature sea turtles that don’t get big. I have an idea for a finding Nemo spin off

 

[Waynerock]

Glad I'm not the only one around here playing Elden Ring!

Insane isn’t it? I got prob 12 hours of just walking around and fighting random stuff and that’s it. No story stuff at all

 

[Cool tangs]

Yellow tangs mega rare and over 1k each now

Technically we only now get yellow scopas tangs not the Hawaiian yellow species

 

[Steve and his Animals]

Opistognathus panamaensis. Basically a blue-spotted jawfish that is actually a tropical species.

The typical blue spot (O. rosenblatti) is only found in the Gulf of California, with average annual temps of about 50 degrees F. Many cases of "blue-spot jawfish disease" are just the species succumbing to living at tropical temps for extended periods, which is something they barely deal with for only the summer in their wild habitat. Even perfectly healthy individualw average a year in our reefs before suddenly passing.

The Panama blue spot lives farther south along the West coast of Panama and South America, so they're theoretically common in their range. They just aren't collected for whatever reason.