OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[Tony Gill]

The other thing is the number of bands on the body. Although these are indistinct in the photos, it looks like it has the characteristic 8-10 narrow bands of P. poweri rather than the 4-5 broad bands of P. meleagris.

[Tony Gill]

Hi Dr Gill,

It's awesome to have you here! An expert on board to clear our doubts and myths in dottybacks!

This collare pic that i attached from fishbase looks quite different from those i posted. In Jack Randall picture below it is more brownish and lack a yellow tail.

collare.jpg

Whereas in this pic i below i posted earlier, the fish appears more pinkish and has a translucent yellow tail.

collare2.jpg

Since you said both are the same species, which is collare, does collare has two color forms? One brown one pink?

Or is it just the photo quality that caused the color difference?

The sort of differences you point out are within the range of variation I've found in other Pseudoplesiops. Aside from your photos, the only others I have are from Flores and Misool (the latter in Gerry Allen and Mark Erdmann's Reef Fishes of the East Indies). There is always the possibility that your fish actually represents a different (thus new) species, and the distribution of other pseudochromid species would lend support to that possibility. I would need to examine specimens (and perhaps more photos) before I could make judgement on that.

[s0n1c87]

Another amazing aberrant fish: super-maroon-clown (glass-box)!

Wow. This is damn cool. Nice.

[veliferium]

http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dottybacks/electric-indigo/

ORA has produced yet another new specimen!

This time round, its an improved version of their popular hybrid, the Indigo Dottyback (P.fridmani x sankeyi).

Instead of the old colouration, this improved version has a 3 toned body; a more intense indigo banding running along the dorsal region, more intense black band and whiter abdomen as compared to the old hybrid which was first bred in 2006.

Looking forward to see some specimens of their new project (including the E.gravieri) in our local LFS !

[yikai]

http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dottybacks/electric-indigo/

ORA has produced yet another new specimen!

This time round, its an improved version of their popular hybrid, the Indigo Dottyback (P.fridmani x sankeyi).

Instead of the old colouration, this improved version has a 3 toned body; a more intense indigo banding running along the dorsal region, more intense black band and whiter abdomen as compared to the old hybrid which was first bred in 2006.

Looking forward to see some specimens of their new project (including the E.gravieri) in our local LFS !

very stunning indigo 2.0!

[Digiman]

http://www.orafarm.com/products/fish/dottybacks/electric-indigo/

ORA has produced yet another new specimen!

This time round, its an improved version of their popular hybrid, the Indigo Dottyback (P.fridmani x sankeyi).

Instead of the old colouration, this improved version has a 3 toned body; a more intense indigo banding running along the dorsal region, more intense black band and whiter abdomen as compared to the old hybrid which was first bred in 2006.

Looking forward to see some specimens of their new project (including the E.gravieri) in our local LFS !

Gorgeous! Yes hope to see some in our next ORA shipment!

[Digiman]

LADD. Small conspic! 3.75".

[Digiman]

Interesting fish: Ophioblennius Steindachneri

[yikai]

super rare garden eel.

heteroconger cobra

[yikai]

Gorgeous! Yes hope to see some in our next ORA shipment!

dejong's previous shipment had some very nice indigos too, but i think the latest by ORA is even more refined!

[Digiman]

Trimma Papayum (Raja Ampat, Flores, North Sulawesi-Bunaken Wall)

Trimma Sp (North Sulawesi-Bunaken Wall)

Deepwater Chromis Sp (North Sulawesi-Bunaken Wall)

[aray]

by Chingchai....

[Jenaellyn]

nice but he has 'sleepy' looking eyes

[Willy Ng]

Nice fishes.

[Digiman]

Three rare Plectranthias

Plectranthias Sp. (likely to be plectranthias winniensis), Japan and Cebu

Plectranthias Sp., found in Japan, very deepwater.

Plectranthias Sp., range unknown

[Digiman]

juvenile chromis brevirostris

[Digiman]

Very nice misbar multibar angelfish

[Digiman]

Newly collected! The deep and beautiful Tattoo Jawfish (Opistognathus Decorus)!

Size: 10cm (approx 4.5"). Price: Bidding in japan starts from S$5000 to buy now price of S$8750.

[Digiman]

Beautiful sunrise anthias. (Pseudanthias sp.) from australia

[Digiman]

Plectranthias Longimanus

Plectranthias Altipinnatus

[Digiman]

Odontanthias Elizabethae!!! Caught in Big Island Hawaii at 200m.

[Terryz_]

Newly collected! The deep and beautiful Tattoo Jawfish (Opistognathus Decorus)!

Size: 10cm (approx 4.5"). Price: Bidding in japan starts from S$5000 to buy now price of S$8750.

BEAUTIFUL!!! Price is not too ex too..

[Tony Gill]

so extremely cryptic. the dead photos are also so bad and rotten!

C. bibulus is nice and has potential to look amazing!! black striped.

I agree with you on the dead photos! It was a shame because the original photos weren't too bad ... just bad scanning and production. I think almost all of the species have high potential as aquarium fish. Even the apparently drab ones have attractive attributes, like subtle spots of bright red or pink. My favourite species is Chlidichthy clibanarius. If anyone is interested, you can download my paper for free here: http://www.saiab.ac.za/bookshop

[Tony Gill]

Cheers from Chicago guys. This thread is amazing. I was up until 5AM reading through it.

We just got a couple of these weird red-tailed dottybacks in, alongside a more typically-colored specimen. I agree that they're not P. flammicauda. I haven't heard back from Dr Gill on this yet, but I'm pretty confident this will turn out to be a variant of a somewhat common species. The opercular markings are the giveaway.

I'm not sure if ever responded on this. This is Pseudochromis dilectus. Pseudochromis flammicauda is a very different fish.

Tony

[Tony Gill]

Anyone can help me with the ID of these two rare fish!

zebra goby.jpg

bream.jpg

The upper fish is Gymneleotris seminuda. The lower fish looks like a Diplectrum ... so a serranid not a sparid.

Tony