Digiman

Rare Cryptocentrus Shigensis (Only found in Suruga Bay, Japan)

Pseudanthias Nobilis (Japan variant of squampinnis) Males Female

Baby bigeye niphonia in Japan ($160)

Rare juvenile Caprodon Schlegelii (100m) Adult Caprodon are common foodfish in the market

Adult Serranus Chionaraia (2" in length caught at 300ft in Curacao) Priolepis Hipoliti (Although can be found shallower, this one is caught at 200ft in Curacao, which is very deep for a priolepis)

Wow! Super rare hybrid of two japanese endemics!

Wah thanks Dr Gill! I did not know there are two color forms to Trachinops taeniatus. Pic here for comparison Normal form Red and yellow form Is it a locality variant? Or is it just aberrations in few individuals? I have yet to see the red and yellow form in the trade.

Difficult angelfish.

Trachinops taeniatus is a beautiful fish! However the wild harvested ones don't do well in our tropical climate. I am not sure if they are poor shippers, but those that came in last time were mostly in bad condition. However thanks to ORA, this beautiful species has now been captive bred! See http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/other/eastern-hulafish/

Ultra rare Hawaiian boarfish and uncommon hawaiian frogfish at HK sealife Maculosus x koran Chrysurus x koran (I wonder why these are not maculosus x koran? and how to tell them apart?)

Beautiful Griffis angel pair

Aberrant venustus (Okinawa yellow form)

HK reefer rare butterfly tank Tinker hybrid, roa excelsa, wrought iron Basabei, roa excelsa Aya, marleyi, zoster, saddleback hybrid etc Guyanensis, marleyi, wrought iron

Maze angel with maze pattern spreading to tail. Wild specimen.

Aberrant juvenile venustus

Together with the Hime Japonica they also collected a Aulacocephalus Temmincki shown below: another photo of Hime Japonica

ORA captive bred leucokranos clownfish pair. The male is graded AA while thr female is standard grade.

Correction: Aberrant Ctenochaetus Binotatus and not Tomini.

Updates from HK Sealife: Odontanthias Fuscipinnis Pseudanthias Hawaiiensis Thiellei Clown Maculosus x koran Aberrant Tomini Tang Tailless sailfin tang and blueline trigger

Need alot of effort and money to get one. Only one batch came into Japan after waiting for 20 yrs! In that batch only one survived. Anyway there are other beautiful, expensive and obtainable prognathodes around. If you are willing to pay there are two of them your consideration will be prognathodes basabei and prognathodes guyanensis. One guyanensis has came in. However no basabei yet.

Although Ecsenius genus is considered reef-safe, Midas blenny (Ecsenius Midas) is considered one of the most aggressive and problematic of the genus. Midas have been reported, on very rare occasions though, to nip or soft corals and LPS and even the fins of some bigger fishes. So if you are telling us your midas is disturbing your clams, i wouldnt be surprised. However just kept it well-fed and hopefully the disturbing will stop after awhile. Our aquarium food tastes much better than the clam, so usually they will stop harassing the clam after some time unless the clam is dying and secreting slime which will attract fishes to feast on them.

There are many species of anthias (pseudanthias). Many of which found commonly in our LFS are quite difficult to keep alive and i wont recommend them to new reefers. One such fish that i will avoid is pseudanthias tuka (purple queen anthias). Without heavy feeding the fish perish very quickly in captivity. Others not recommended ones include pasculus, smithvanizi, evansi, flavoguttatus etc. For cheap and easy one, i strongly recommend pseudanthias squampinnis (blue-eye lyretail anthias). Green chromis is a good schooling fish to keep. They are cheap and relatively easy. About 10% or so will die of shipping stress or transport stress, after that the rest that survive will do very well. There are actually two species of green chromis that we commonly find in the LFS and they are chromis viridis and chromis atripectoralis. Both are very similar looking (almost identical and even very experienced reefers can get confused) and relatively easy in terms of care.

Cannot get. Please consider others. Now there are only 4 to 5 obtainable prognathodes in the market.

Acanthurus Maculiceps