OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[Digiman]

A rare and gorgeous fish that lives symbiotically with the portugese man of war.

Nomeus gronovii

Wow din know got such interesting relationship. The man of war jellyfish can deliver a v nasty sting but yet does not sting the fish.

Another video of the fish in captivity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM78Txtu_FU&feature=channel

[yikai]

very nice fish. looks like some pokemon.

[Terryz_]

But they can survive without the jellyfish right?

[yikai]

i dunno. this kind of thing too little in captivity and whatever is caught is probably some guy from the ocean collecting himself.

so no one knows. but i think can.

man of war is actually not a jellyfish. but clowns have been found hosting inside them also.

[Digiman]

But they can survive without the jellyfish right?

U mean in the wild yes. But i think in captivity even w jellyfish cannot survive, unless in big public aquarium.

[Terryz_]

Haha... All these creature that have symbolic relationship with poisonous host are difficult to keep or impossible to keep...

[yikai]

C. meyeri x C. reticulatus hybrid appear in japan.

cannot keep so those with any ideas brewing, better steer clear.

[yikai]

reefbuilders is having a competition for US reefers.

who can correctly identify the most rare fish in bluehabour's rare fish tank gets to win 2 amazing books.

omg this is the easiest contest ever and i bet if they hold it for southeast asia, we could easily win the books!

[Digiman]

reefbuilders is having a competition for US reefers.

who can correctly identify the most rare fish in bluehabour's rare fish tank gets to win 2 amazing books.

omg this is the easiest contest ever and i bet if they hold it for southeast asia, we could easily win the books!

Not really, there's a black and white coloured fish inside koji's tank tat i'm not able to ID.

[Digiman]

Not really, there's a black and white coloured fish inside koji's tank tat i'm not able to ID.

Sorry not the black and white but a pale white fish (it may be a ventralis anthias cos the video not v clear) appearing in this video below at 1:16 at the top right hand corner of the screen.

Link: http://www.blueharbor.co.jp/factory/flaver2/flaver.swf?video=/factory/flaver2/0002.flv&time=01:22&title=&color=&full=true&list=1&seek=58

For the youtube video one is super easy cos not all rare fishes are appearing.

The list if i'm not wrong:

fuscipinnis anthias

bodianus sanguineus

ventralis anthias

ventralis hawaiensis

golden pgymy angel

chalk basslet

swissguard basslet

aurora anthias

golden hamlet

debelius angel

borbonius anthias

guyanensis butterfly

basabei butterfly

kelloggi plectranthias

naoko fairy wrasse

personatus angel

Spanish flag

Semi snowflake clown

common cleaner wrasse

And those not appearing in the youtube but in the other video link i posted above:

muticolor x coral beauty hybrid

Serranus chionaraia

an unknown pale white looking anthias i mentioned above.

[yikai]

Bodianus perditio

Bigbigfish, we were talking about this earlier this afternoon. you are right it's gorgeous!

you can find a scene in this video featuring the B. perditio in a cubicle in Vanuatu.

juveniles are yellow and adults are red i believe.

[yikai]

Sorry not the black and white but a pale white fish (it may be a ventralis anthias cos the video not v clear) appearing in this video below at 1:16 at the top right hand corner of the screen.

Link: http://www.blueharbor.co.jp/factory/flaver2/flaver.swf?video=/factory/flaver2/0002.flv&time=01:22&title=&color=&full=true&list=1&seek=58

For the youtube video one is super easy cos not all rare fishes are appearing.

The list if i'm not wrong:

fuscipinnis anthias

bodianus sanguineus

ventralis anthias

ventralis hawaiensis

golden pgymy angel

chalk basslet

swissguard basslet

aurora anthias

golden hamlet

debelius angel

borbonius anthias

guyanensis butterfly

basabei butterfly

kelloggi plectranthias

naoko fairy wrasse

personatus angel

Spanish flag

Semi snowflake clown

common cleaner wrasse

And those not appearing in the youtube but in the other video link i posted above:

muticolor x coral beauty hybrid

Serranus chionaraia

an unknown pale white looking anthias i mentioned above.

yah i dunno wat is the pale anthias.

[yikai]

ventralis!

[yikai]

somali butterfly

[yikai]

abarrent blue tangs.

both very nice

[vt_snowman87]

abarrent blue tangs.

both very nice

Lemon, this reminds me of my old blue tang.. has a 'black face'.. puzzles me because i believed it developed as it grew..

[bigbigfish]

Bodianus perditio

Bigbigfish, we were talking about this earlier this afternoon. you are right it's gorgeous!

you can find a scene in this video featuring the B. perditio in a cubicle in Vanuatu.

juveniles are yellow and adults are red i believe.

Lemon,

Thx for the vidz, nice!

[Digiman]

Bodianus perditio

Bigbigfish, we were talking about this earlier this afternoon. you are right it's gorgeous!

you can find a scene in this video featuring the B. perditio in a cubicle in Vanuatu.

juveniles are yellow and adults are red i believe.

Definitely an unpopular hogfish as it grows big and ugly.

[yikai]

Definitely an unpopular hogfish as it grows big and ugly.

big one ugly but the juv so so nice!

[yikai]

unidentified butterflyfish from sun marina miyazaki in japan.

photo by H. tanaka.

very blur but does not look like anything i know from japan. closest is spot fin but only from carribean.

[Digiman]

unidentified butterflyfish from sun marina miyazaki in japan.

photo by H. tanaka.

very blur but does not look like anything i know from japan. closest is spot fin but only from carribean.

Could be sanctaehelenae butterfly, but that is not found in Japan either.

[yikai]

Could be sanctaehelenae butterfly, but that is not found in Japan either.

if you look really really closely, you can see the eye and face. the photo is very blue.

but and body pattern indicates a somewhat triangular shaped fish.

maybe a boronessa? but the colour is so weird. could be an extreme aberration.

[Digiman]

if you look really really closely, you can see the eye and face. the photo is very blue.

but ###### and body pattern indicates a somewhat triangular shaped fish.

maybe a boronessa? but the colour is so weird. could be an extreme aberration.

It looks like a shallow water butterflyfish and shallow water butterfly are usually found in big school. So it's weird tat this butterfly is only sighted once and only one was sighted. Better pic is defintely needed for ID.

[Digiman]

Chaetodon sanctaehelenae is defintely the closest in terms of colouration.

[yikai]

Either it's a wild naturally occuring butterfly, or a released specimen.

for saint helen's butterfly cannot be both. since they are not found in japan and no one owns one to date. it's also worth more than throwing it into some bay.

it could also be a spotfin. chances are someone could have released it there. but the picture of the un-ID butterfly lacks the spot on the soft dorsal fin and has a transparent tail, whereas spotfin has yellow tail.

so it's not both. unlikely to be an aberrant boronessa because they are found in abundant SPS growth, on which they feed exclusively on and i dunno if they extend to japan.

so maybe it's a new species or an aberrant something.