Heniochus Diphreutes

TCFletch · Jan 15, 2016

Does anybody know where I can get this fish? My lfs doesn't carry. Thanks and I love this forum!

skiwez · Jan 15, 2016

Live Aquaria has them infrequently, you can sign up for email alerts when they come in

saltyhog · Jan 15, 2016

Good luck. I looked for some for over a year and gave up and went on to something else. Kind of glad I did, they grow really fast and get pretty big.

3dees · Jan 17, 2016

I had one, but my Lamarcks angel and coral beauty killed it within a week. my lfs says they are seasonal and this isn't the season, but it's the lfs, so take it for what it's worth.

Breakthecycle2 · Jan 17, 2016

What state are you in? The stores around here always have a bunch in.

3dees · Jan 17, 2016

are you sure? lfs around here always have the accumilatus but not the diphreutes which are reef safe.

Breakthecycle2 · Jan 17, 2016

3dees said:
are you sure? lfs around here always have the accumilatus but not the diphreutes which are reef safe.

Hmm, this is what comes up when I do a search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hen...yLHKAhUBkZAKHeQICckQ_AUIBygB&biw=1639&bih=852

Is this not them?

saltyhog · Jan 17, 2016

Breakthecycle2 said:
Hmm, this is what comes up when I do a search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hen...yLHKAhUBkZAKHeQICckQ_AUIBygB&biw=1639&bih=852

Is this not them?

There are pictures of both H. dephreutes and H. accuminata on that page. They are somewhat difficult to tell apart (for me at least) unless you see them side by side. All I've ever seen on the mail order places are H. accuminata which is definitely not reef safe. Pacific Island Aquaculture used to have dephreutes occasionally when they were in business. The fish is native to Hawaii.