OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[yikai]

Looking back at my old C. declivis makes me want to start my roaops collection once again.

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The roaops butterflies.

Chaetodon declivis (declivis), Chaetodon declivis (wilderi), Chaetodon mitratus, Chaetodon burgessi, Chaetodon tinkeri, Chaetodon flavocoronatus.

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As you all will know by now, GBD has featured the personatus collection artile on their blog. diver Rob posted on RC that he is embarassed and quite mad that GBD posted. now a frenzy of divers will start hunting for the spot and cause a personatus war!

How exciting!!

imagine 100 divers scouting for this secret spot. rushing for the personatus. DOG EAT DOG WORLD!

[Digiman]

The roaops butterflies.

Chaetodon declivis (declivis), Chaetodon declivis (wilderi)

Hah? Like tat also need to separate into a subspecies!

As you all will know by now, GBD has featured the personatus collection artile on their blog. diver Rob posted on RC that he is embarassed and quite mad that GBD posted. now a frenzy of divers will start hunting for the spot and cause a personatus war!

How exciting!!

imagine 100 divers scouting for this secret spot. rushing for the personatus. DOG EAT DOG WORLD!

GBD did not post the exact location so other divers prob still dunno where is it. To spot a group of jueniles is like a goldmine being discovered. Hope this group of personatus found is not a one-off incident and we can eventually see regular catch of personatus from that location. Interesting to know if LCK's Hawaii supplier happen to know of the location tat's why they're able to get personatus as well?

[yikai]

Hah? Like tat also need to separate into a subspecies!

yah exactly right? some authors divide the two morphs of declivis into two diff sub species to illustrate the colour morph. i like the yellow one more.

GBD did not post the exact location so other divers prob still dunno where is it. To spot a group of jueniles is like a goldmine being discovered. Hope this group of personatus found is not a one-off incident and we can eventually see regular catch of personatus from that location. Interesting to know if LCK's Hawaii supplier happen to know of the location tat's why they're able to get personatus as well?

maybe LCK contacted that rob guy directly? unlikely that just when rob announce he can catch, LCK manage to get personatus at the exact same time. too rare a fish for such things to happen unless it's divine intervention. so my guess is it's coming from that guy direct.

[yikai]

rare fish round up!

starting with these bicolours.

oo first one is nice.

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some ugly keyhole angel!

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heard of the blue potters. now a blue midas!

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koran x maculosus hybrids

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posted before but i like it so post again. emperor x chrysurus

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goldflake x flagfin.

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digi this venustus you like right? from that video by the japanese guy.

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nice hybrid lemonpeel

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crazy queens

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nice clown trigger!

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damsels rarely get the aberrant spotlight. here's one. although ridiculously hideous.

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a pair of hybrid butterflies!

Ornate x meyeri and meyeri x reticulated

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posted before.

aya x guyanensis

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hideous tang

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i've been saving this for the last. my favourite.

a very white pale looking blueface and watch how it transforms into something so weird... from pale white, to dark, to black, then it developed electric blue lines on it's black body. and it does not even have a blue face or the characteristic yellow eye mask! isit a hybrid or a variant or a very sick diseased fish? i dunno.

[Digiman]

maybe LCK contacted that rob guy directly? unlikely that just when rob announce he can catch, LCK manage to get personatus at the exact same time. too rare a fish for such things to happen unless it's divine intervention. so my guess is it's coming from that guy direct.

Maybe. But the rob diver is so confident tat he's gg to catch tat many personatus. Wat if he ends up with zero catch, cos so many things can happen, he's not 100% sure the group of juveniles will stay at the same spot cos they may still shift upwards to the cooler north or deeper into water, the angels may be v hard to catch and he may not even end up w one. No matter wat, hope for all the best in his collection next week. Too many disappointments this year, first is the failure of the mauritius debelius angels collection, then the easter island hotumatua angels collection, hope next will not be deepwater hawaii personatus collection!

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Maybe. But the rob diver is so confident tat he's gg to catch tat many personatus. Wat if he ends up with zero catch, cos so many things can happen, he's not 100% sure the group of juveniles will stay at the same spot cos they may still shift upwards to the cooler north or deeper into water, the angels may be v hard to catch and he may not even end up w one. No matter wat, hope for all the best in his collection next week. Too many disappointments this year, first is the failure of the mauritius debelius angels collection, then the easter island hotumatua angels collection, hope next will not be deepwater hawaii personatus collection!

so many extraordinarily rare fish to NOT obtain.

from mauritius we have

- piscilineatus flasher

- debelius angel

- sanguineus fairy

easter island we have hotumatua and litus.

pitcairn we have genicanthus spinus and the holy grail of butterflies, C. smithi.

kermedec islands we have Genicanthus semicinctus, which appeared in Japan 20 years ago and Dr takana had the fortune to see one in kyoto. but unfortunately, it did not feed.

from hawaii we have the personatus, and nearby marshall have the bell's flasher wrasse. even nearer we have earlei in palau where rhomboid has been found! range extension for Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis.

move over to cook islands and we can find the peppermint angel, claire's fairy wrasse and narcosis angelfish.

move over to far away africa and can find the hemitaeniatus flasher wrasse and kingi angel

SO MANY RARE FISH AND THAT'S NOT EVEN ALL! SO MANY MORE!!

[Terryz_]

so many extraordinarily rare fish to NOT obtain.

from mauritius we have

- piscilineatus flasher

- debelius angel

- sanguineus fairy

easter island we have hotumatua and litus.

pitcairn we have genicanthus spinus and the holy grail of butterflies, C. smithi.

kermedec islands we have Genicanthus semicinctus, which appeared in Japan 20 years ago and Dr takana had the fortune to see one in kyoto. but unfortunately, it did not feed.

from hawaii we have the personatus, and nearby marshall have the bell's flasher wrasse. even nearer we have earlei in palau where rhomboid has been found! range extension for Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis.

move over to cook islands and we can find the peppermint angel, claire's fairy wrasse and narcosis angelfish.

move over to far away africa and can find the hemitaeniatus flasher wrasse and kingi angel

SO MANY RARE FISH AND THAT'S NOT EVEN ALL! SO MANY MORE!!

Litus is Endangered... Forget about it...

[Digiman]

so many extraordinarily rare fish to NOT obtain.

from mauritius we have

- piscilineatus flasher

- debelius angel

- sanguineus fairy

easter island we have hotumatua and litus.

pitcairn we have genicanthus spinus and the holy grail of butterflies, C. smithi.

kermedec islands we have Genicanthus semicinctus, which appeared in Japan 20 years ago and Dr takana had the fortune to see one in kyoto. but unfortunately, it did not feed.

from hawaii we have the personatus, and nearby marshall have the bell's flasher wrasse. even nearer we have earlei in palau where rhomboid has been found! range extension for Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis.

move over to cook islands and we can find the peppermint angel, claire's fairy wrasse and narcosis angelfish.

move over to far away africa and can find the hemitaeniatus flasher wrasse and kingi angel

SO MANY RARE FISH AND THAT'S NOT EVEN ALL! SO MANY MORE!!

Haha move over to the redsea we have the blatteus fairy wrasse and taeniatus anthias. And coming back to our SEA waters, indonesia, we have the extremely deep water abei angel. If we look over to west australia, there're another dozen of fishes tat we cant obtain.

[Digiman]

Litus is Endangered... Forget about it...

Is it?? It's reported abundant at shallow depth at Easter Islands.