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Yap Rubre is much more beautiful, compared to swalesi. However when compared to carmabi, it loses shine. Hope one day can see at least one carmabi hit our shore.

Yes they are different, aurora(also called yellow margin basslet) is endemic to Hawaii deepwater and extremely rare. Whereas Liopropoma sp. (also called yellow tail basslet), not as splendid, can be found occasionally in bali shipment, and hence of course cheaper. We'll most likely not see aurora at all here!

3) multicolor (look at the orange bars):

2) bicintus clown

3 rare morphs from glassbox: 1) bicolor

For Borbonius Lover, what is rare fish here is food to native pple of another country at $17 per kg:

Liopropoma africanum

Liopropoma Tonstrinum

Liopropoma fasciatum

Liopropoma latifasciatum

Liopropoma eukrines

Liopropoma aurora

Liopropoma sp. (Yellow Tail Reef Basslet)

Liopropoma Multilineatum

Liopropoma mowbrayi

Liopropoma Carmabi

From Liveaquaria Liopropoma collettei

Liopropoma Susumi

Liopropoma Rubre

Let's see some pics of the deepwater, rare genus, liopropoma (to date only the more common swissguard and swalesi are available): Sources: Coralidea, Advancedaquarist, reefkeeping, saltwaterfish.com, blueharbor, marinelifephotography. Liopropoma Swalesi

Great News: Mccullochi Clowns are successfully bred, some of them are showing up at US for sale at US$3-5K each. More info at: http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewtop...sc&start=75

Another pic of rare black long nose (picasaweb)

Found the name of this butterfly, prognathodes basabei(1998)

Anyone know what is this fish, angel or butterfly?

undescribed deepwater butterfly (prognathodes sp.):