blue line angel

[Allmost]

ok stupid question.

there are 2 types of blue line angel it seems.

ones with straight line and ones with lines going up ...

are they both same species ?

I think the ones form Japan have straight lines ? if so, where is the other ones coming form ?

thanks

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

Not a stupid question, Chaetodontoplus is not the best described or well known genus of angelfish. The commonly called bluestripe is the Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis, and is most common in the China Sea but ranges from Vietnam to Taiwan to Southern Japan. I keep this fish and it is a remarkable and beautiful little angel.

Several other Chaetodontoplus look very similar and some have the blue stripes as well. Chaetodontoplus chrysocephalus is a similar species called the orangeface angel and there is another called the maze angel with similar coloration. there has been speculation that some of these forms may be color variants of hybrids, or juvenile or female forms of a known species.

 

[blface]

Are you talking about a blue line & a blue ring?

 

[mattsilvester]

I get the impression the "one with lines going up" that you refer to is Pomacanthus annularis, or the blue ring angelfish. I think this, because in many pictures they have a similar tan-brown base colour with blue cresent shaped stripes sweeping upwards?

This is a very different fish from the actual "blue line" (Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis) that Kahuna describes..... the blue ring is a different genus and gets twice as large to start with!!!

Google the two scientific names provided here and let us know if they are the ones you refer to?

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

Heres a good angelfish ID page

http://www.fishbase.org/identification/specieslist.php?famcode=460&areacode=

 

[Allmost]

thank you guys, after researching more I see the LFS has marked them incorrectly both as blue line,

prety obv now, thanks alot.