The Holy Grail - Rare marine fish

[cmantis]

Great read. I have a pair of golden angels, pair of gold nuggets, two pair of bali picassos and a maize angel. Just passed on some black tangs (not my thing as you can see I prefer gold).

 

[hatfielj]

Did anyone mention the Gem Tang yet? If I had that kind of money to throw away, I'd already have one:)

 

[clownfitch]

OH! I have several Clarions :bigsmile:!! One of my favorite fish by far. I also have 4 Lightning Maroons

A fts showing your collection together would be awesome.

 

[Diesel]

To me all fish are RARE!
They come from the ocean as God gift to us, but we might need start giving back, BIG time soon!
If you have a nicely layout as a aqua scape than every fish looks rare.
Wrasses are awesome but they jump and even with a good fitting screen on top they still manage to jump out, so for that I quit buying wrasses.
I've spend close to 5k on them and be done with it.
Angel fish are nice but it's always a challenge with corals, I have three myself and thank God they're blind for corals, Scribbled, bandit and rare Hawaiian flame.
Swallowtails are awesome as I have 4 of them, Bellus pair and Masked pair.
Instead of wrasses I'm going to try a harem of Anthias, they will be all over the place just need to feed a bit more.
So far great thread.

 

[reeffirstaid]

I have to agree with Diesel, all fish are incredibly important, in their own way, to ocean ecosystems. All marine fish, from common dameselfish, on up to many species described in my initial post, are beautiful and have interesting behaviors.

 

[cryptics]

My LFS had Black Tangs and a Candy Basslet yesterday. They told me the Black Tangs unfortunately came in stressed and only one made it out of three :( He was very small or I would have grabbed him. I don't think he would have done well in my tank so that overides any desire to get one. Most of my fish are common but I do have a Chevron (pretty common but not everyday), a yellow Scopas Tang (Love this guy) and a Tang from the Mauritian Island which is cool looking but I have no idea what the name is.

 

[ReefFrenzy]

I've been trying to get my buddy "Ted" to post some pics of his amazing collection of fish on R2R but he is super busy and maintains a 125+ page thread on another board. (I promise Revtree I keep mentioning how great it is on R2R!) He actually commissioned us 18 months ago to make food for this tank. (Ted's chunky blend...lol) We have been feeding it and been friends ever since. He even has some more beauties in QT.

How many rare fish mentioned above can you spot?

Another one of our clients also has a Peppermint Angel...

(The links to the threads containing the above pics are featured on our website Testimonial page.)

 

[Aquaph8]

Larry, work your magic and get Ted and Drew over here. I'll come help ya during MACNA.

 

[bobkill]

Here is our boy Casmiri

 

[bobkill]

Here is bunny our aberrated yellow

 

[ReefFrenzy]

Larry, work your magic and get Ted and Drew over here. I'll come help ya during MACNA.

Both will be at our booth, as will a whole bunch of rare fish collectors, so please stop by for sure! I'm gonna have feeding demos playing on our 42" HDTV featuring some exotic fish like those pictured above.

 

[Reefer831]

You're write ups are amazing and I always enjoy them… I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with the community...thanks!

 

[fishroomlady]

wow, that gem tang is breathtaking!

 

[dukduk]

What about Shepards Angelfish?

 

[Captain Billy]

If I could just get some of my wrasses to stand still long enough for a photo!

 

[Rob Top1]

Eshoppe makes a plastic peppermint angel. Sells for about $20. That would be the closest to a PA I will ever get. Easier for me to layout cash on high end coral. There at least if something g goes sideways you can try cutting the bad part out and save some part ofnit. Can't really do that with a fish

 

[bloopergrooper]

A fts showing your collection together would be awesome.

We have one clarion and 2 lightings and the gem (also a mango angel from Guam and a Sacura anthias) in our display tank - the other lightings and Clarions are kept out at our local aquarium for breeding projects. Here's video of the display tank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EuzlWCIlGw

 

[clownfitch]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Eienna]

How about my rare and gorgeous Mandarin Dragonet, who actually stayed fat on PELLETS?!
Gosh, I miss him ;_;

How's that for rare? :D

 

[xrayjeeper83]

Not sure how rare but havent seen another one around.

Golden dwarf lion