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The last few liopropoma from the will-stay-small-size group are the rarer and unobtainables! Liopropoma Africanum Price: Around $2000. Care: Easy and hardy. A small basslet that can be trusted with some bigger ornamental shrimps. Where to find: If you special order through our LFS and with a bit of waiting, it can be obtained. But expect the fish to be very expensive and may be a long wait because this rare basslet is only found and caught in the african waters at about 100 ft depth. I have one in my tank now that i have kept for a long time. Very hardy and beautiful fish. Africanum from LADD Africanum at BBox Africanum in the wild Africanum in my tank

Liopropoma Multilineatum Price: Around $150 Care: Easy and hardy. A small basslet that can be trusted with some bigger ornamental shrimps. Where to find: So far only from Cebu shipment at CF! Very hard to find. Two color forms exists and the color forms can interchange in captivity. Normal color form Yellow color form

Liopopoma Swalesi (Indo Candy basslet) Price: Below $50. Care: Easy and hardy. A small basslet that can be trusted with some bigger ornamental shrimps. Where to find: Most common liopropoma you can find here. CF, Iwarna, Ah Beng, ML all would carry it time to time. Also known as poor man's candy basslet as it is like a pirated version of the atlantic candy basslet liopropoma carmabi. Swalesi from Iwarna There is a dark red morph that is suspected to be an undescribed species. However none has surfaced again so there isn't enough information to confirm. Dark red morph

Here are two very similar species from Indo-pacific. Both of them occasionally appear at our LFS. Liopropoma Susumi (common name is pin-stripe basslet) Price: Around $50 (varies). Care: Easy and hardy. A small basslet that can be trusted with some bigger ornamental shrimps. Where to find: Usually philippines shipment from Ah Beng, ML, Iwarna etc. According to the number of times i spotted this fish in our shipments, i would say susumi is rarer than collettei. Susumi has more lines (6 to 7) than collettei which has 4 lines across body. Susumi at ML. Liopropoma Collettei Price: Around $50 (varies). Care: Easy and hardy. A small basslet that can be trusted with some bigger ornamental shrimps. Where to find: Usually philippines shipment from Ah Beng, ML, Iwarna etc. One of the most common lipropoma found here! In my opinion collettei is a more attractive species than susumi. Collettei has fewer lines and usually 4 main lines running across body which can be thick or very thin on some fishes. Collettei is also more brick red in color than the duller susumi. Collettei at Dejong Marine Collettei at Iwarna

Liopropoma Sp. (Commonly known as yellowtail reef basslet) Price: Below $50 or more depending on sources. Care: Poorly collected. Usually comes with decompression showing the "head down" syndrome. A small basslet that can be trusted with some bigger ornamental shrimps. Where to find: Commonly found in indo shipments from ML, CF, Ah Beng, Iwarna etc. Liopropoma Sp. from ML, the usual morph. See two different morphs below. There is a black stripe morph coming out from the same area. It may be a different species but i doubt so. Spotted this black-stripe morph a few times at Ah Beng. And there is an extremely rare red-tail morph that went to Japan.

Interesting note: There is a almost identical looking species known as Lipropoma Pallidum which comes from the pacific areas like marshall islands. Very little info is known and i believe it has never been offered in the trade. From fishbase photo it appears to have slightly shorter snout and body. All the pallidum live pics photo on the net are most likely mitratum from the indo waters than the real pallidum. Liopropoma Pallidum pic from Fishbase

The three atlantic species are the staples of the liopropomas and it would be too boring if i just stop at that. I will gradually be showing more rarer species and some so rare that you probably have not heard of or seen a proper pic yet! Let us move on to the cheaper liopropoma species of the indo-pacific. Note they are cheap but they are NOT common too! Liopropoma Mitratum Price: Below $50. Care: Easy and hardy. A small basslet that can be trusted with some bigger ornamental shrimps. Where to find: I have probably seen it at Ah Beng before on several occasions and no where else. I would regard it as a cheap but very hard to find basslet from our indo shipments. Pls share some photos or experience if you have kept this basslet before.

Yup i lost my first carmabi because it wasnt a very well-shipped specimen to begin with. However upon second attempt i got a healthy specimen and it grew into a one of my hardiest fish!

Rare fishes in Japan update: 4.5 cm tiny spanish flag!! 4.5 cm large lipogramma evides Ultra rare XL gem tang! Large gems are extremely rare as they are found much deeper. As such usually those available are small gems that are caught at shallower depth. Super rare juvenile Old Woman Angelfish!! Although not a very attractive looking fish, these are very very rare!

Rare tigerpye angel

Oddball Paraques Viola

I love the chromis the most! I want one!

Those are not flavoguttatus. They are the 50 times more expensive privitera anthias.

New fishes in Japan Small hybrid tinker Dr Seuss fish

Rare yellow morph blue-spot jawfish! Such a beautiful fish!

Undescribed Odontanthias x2 This one looks like a borbonius but it is not This one looks like a fuscipinnis but the shape is different Below is a video of both fish

Bycatch of the peppermint angel collection: Undescribed chromis Seen in the below video at 3:20. Undescibed Dragonet Undescribed plectranthias

Ya further look it looks like a darker coral beauty. Dont think it is a hybrid.

Dusky angelfish. Centropyge Multispinis

For that to happen i have to base in US. Furthermore i dun hav any nice tanks to show. Just dull but stable setup for my fishes. Doing perfect. There are four fishes in the main tank and two of which that did not make their appearance: Bodianus Neopercularis and Spanish flag. I also still have one elegant blenny and an undescribed black cryptocentrus in the main tank. Sadly my interruptus lost one eye due to pop eye. The right side has the eye while the left side eye is lost. However fish is still eating and doing v well. It'll stay with me until it dies a natural death.

awesome combi - narcosis plus peppermint love both!

Baby bandits and clarion and interruptus

Narcosis and peppermint and claire!!! We will be waiting for abei....

I do agree the pelicieri has lost its novelty after the new found collection point. The fish is now not so unobtainable anymore, albeit still costly.

In my bigger tank Clarion angel and Interruptus angel Clarion Dominating the whole tank Interruptus