Unidentified Angelfish

[MnFish1]

None taken, thought it was very unique.

I AGREE - its unique . It was interesting looking at it and the thread

 

[Dragon52]

Its interesting and no offense to the OP others -to me this is not an attractive fish (at all)

Sometimes it all about the differences, that's what makes Hobbies so much fun.

 

[Katrina71]

@fabutahoun any ideas on this little guy?

 

[fabutahoun]

@fabutahoun any ideas on this little guy?

As @pcon said its hard to tell what is the exact ID. Centropyge Angels can have many color morphs and hybrids. I am thinking this is an apparent coral beauty. But can’t role out other possibilities.

 

[MnFish1]

As @pcon said its hard to tell what is the exact ID. Centropyge Angels can have many color morphs and hybrids. I am thinking this is an apparent coral beauty. But can’t role out other possibilities.

what do you base this on? I mean I could say its a lemon peel - It looks like neither

 

[sfin52]

Well, I have no intention to buy it so if you live in central Illinois, get there fast.

Where in central il

 

[scchase]

100% aberrant Coral Beauty, they are decently common in that color form. For sure not a hybrid between bispinosa and vrolikii. Based on DNA tests Centropyge will likely be broke up at some point as the subgenuses that those two groups represent don't appear to be closely related.

 

[pcon]

what do you base this on? I mean I could say its a lemon peel - It looks like neither

I am sorta leaning towards a aberrant coral beauty now as well. the pics I glanced at seemed like the half black also had a black spot where the pictured one was, but the half black has its spot at the base of its fin not behind it like the pictured one and coral beauties get.

There are some suggestions that the use of color in centropyge taxonomy is not totally reliable which makes this somewhat a guessing game. But the rough approach is there are certain groups with different body shapes, xiphypops have extra face spines, paracentropyge extra fin ornamentations. Once the more specific clade is narrowed down within centropyge it largely is color. For this specimen the shape indicates coral beauty, especially around the tail. I have seen coral beauties with a black patch like the one pictured so the patterning sort of matches up better than anything else. most of the rest with a similarly shaped head and tail area don't have the right colors. And then often certain pigments will get erased but other different types will stay, which is why It seems unlikely to be a multicolor which is just missing the iridescent blue and black from just the forehead. But I'm just spitballing keyboard taxonomy.

 

[Tamberav]

Looks like the deep water coral beauty's that are for sale at times.. they can be a pale orange yellow to white.

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productdetailcc.asp?did=11&cid=360&pid=10144
Another:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...lRl6kAyg0XyuUGDWG2YJ_gsIqgsTNXY9QHxSVuT20j0pL

 

[InCodWeTrust]

Where in central il

Sailfin Pet Shop in Champaign

 

[InCodWeTrust]

I think I found a Coral Beauty morph on google that looks similar to the one at the LFS

 

[sfin52]

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Sailfin Pet Shop in Champaign

I was there two weeks ago. Picked up a sand conch. It's a Nice store.

 

[InCodWeTrust]

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I was there two weeks ago. Picked up a sand conch. It's a Nice store.

Are you going to buy it?

 

[sfin52]

Are you going to buy it?

Cant. My other cb will kill it.

 

[InCodWeTrust]

Cant. My other cb will kill it.

Feels bad

 

[KrisReef]

Feels bad

What store is the fish at?
I wanted to see if they would ship the fish to California.
Thanks

 

[InCodWeTrust]

What store is the fish at?
I wanted to see if they would ship the fish to California.
Thanks

It’s at Sailfin Pet Shop in Champaign Illinois. They have a website Sailfin.com but they don’t have an online store. You can call them asking if they do ship though if they still have it.

 

[mayday0237]

For $40 If it was me it would already be in my tank.

+1

 

[sawdonkey]

Sailfin Pet Shop in Champaign

Good to hear they’re still around. That was my spot in college.....17 years ago!