Heniochus diphreutes available!

saltyhog · Sep 23, 2020

A heads up for anyone that wants a genuinely reef safe butterfly fish. Blue Zoo has H. diphreutes in stock. I have been looking for these for years....unfortunately my tank is pretty well stocked and I don't want to get rid of any of the fish I have.

Phycodurus · Sep 23, 2020

gadzooks! these are the heniochus i’ve been wanting. a school of five (seven?) in a 180G set-up sure would look nice. and my clams would be safe.

i wish H. chrysostomus were equally reefsafe.

mattzang · Sep 24, 2020

@Dierks gets them too!

SDguy · Sep 24, 2020

IME most places get them... they are just terrible at identifying them correctly LOL. PSA here is a great comparison pic. Diphreutes on the right.

Tired · Sep 24, 2020

Oh, knockoff Moorish Idols. Really pretty. Shame there's another fish out there that makes the bannerfish look like someone cut them out too roughly and never smoothed them off into proper Idols.

SDguy · Sep 24, 2020

Haha! People troll fish?

saltyhog · Sep 24, 2020

SDguy said:
IME most places get them... they are just terrible at identifying them correctly LOL. PSA here is a great comparison pic. Diphreutes on the right.

Supposedly these were collected in Hawaii and H. Accuminatus isn't found there are they?

saltyhog · Sep 24, 2020

Check that, Fishbase does show H. accuminatus range including Hawaii.....buyer beware. Accuminatus is not reef safe.

mattzang · Sep 25, 2020

hmm i just find some posts by matt wandell and a story on reefs.com by him saying hawaiian = diphreutes

i feel like fishbase does get the map a bit wrong sometimes, although off the top of my head i can't think of an example

pcon · Sep 25, 2020

mattzang said:
hmm i just find some posts by matt wandell and a story on reefs.com by him saying hawaiian = diphreutes

i feel like fishbase does get the map a bit wrong sometimes, although off the top of my head i can't think of an example

I think most of the maps come with a disclaimer that they are computer generated and have not been verified.

saltyhog · Sep 25, 2020

mattzang said:
hmm i just find some posts by matt wandell and a story on reefs.com by him saying hawaiian = diphreutes

i feel like fishbase does get the map a bit wrong sometimes, although off the top of my head i can't think of an example

That's what I always heard as well and the reason for my first comment. Then I decided to verify it on Fishbase. I will say this, when we dove in Hawaii we saw large schools of H. diphreutes but I did not personally see any H. accuminatus.