Anyone know where to find Caribean Queen Angels?

Winwood

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A long time ago when I was in my mid to late teens (10-15 years ago) a sort of sketchy but interesting local fish place was bringing in supposed Haitian queen angels. The guy and his son had taken a trip to Haiti to do some missionary work and apparently made some contacts down there. I was shown their trip photos and it certainly looked like Haiti with all the 1950's cars and old buildings.

Anyways I'm getting off track, but after that the guy was bringing in all sorts of stuff from these new contacts and one thing that always caught my eye was the queen angels that would come in with these shipments. These queens were much greener and bluer than the sort of yellow ones I see from Florida and Brazil. Also, to my recollection they didn't have near the red in the streamers either.

I know Haiti is a far shot but was wondering if anyone has ever imported these fish from say the Bahamas or Dominican Republic or any other Caribean locale?
 
divingdominicanrepublic.com/marine-life/queen-angelfish/

This website has a great example of what I'm talking about and being that the photos taken are from the Dominican Republic it stands to reason they look like the queens I remember this guy getting in.
 
Yeah I've seen the queens from St. Paul rocks and their color is beautiful but their streamers appear shorter or even stunted in those individuals. The ones brought in by the before mentioned individual still maintained the full regal shape queens are known for.

Actually I have a very short list of things I wished I'd bought in the past. Probably number 1 on this list was one of these queens. It was atleast 12" and probably the most beautiful fish I've ever seen. I would like to find one similar to it (smaller of course) but haven't been able to find a source for them. Any help would be appreciated.
 
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