JonTarutis
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The hi-res ones are coming your way once I sort them!!!
Enjoy!
Jon
Copps.... here's a little teaser!
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The hi-res ones are coming your way once I sort them!!!
Enjoy!
Jon
AuroraDrvr
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Genicanthus melanospilos X Genicanthus semifasciatus ??
Oh, by the way, I hate you.
Oh, by the way, I hate you.
yellowslayer13
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I see a TOTM soon
michael_cb_125
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Simply Amazing!!
That BLotched Anthia is scary big.
~Michael
That BLotched Anthia is scary big.
~Michael
VengefulSakhmet
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That is a gorgeous tank! Your fish look great. How big is the tank? It looks massive.
BangkokMatt
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That aint gonna help Tim. They can just change
Awesome fish BTW
JonTarutis
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Thanks everyone. Unfortunately I am just the curator for this aquarium. Tank is a 3/4 cylinder... 5.5 foot diameter and 6 feet tall. Roughly 1800 gallons.
So far the hybrid has maintained his colors and seems to be getting longer streamers.
Where he came from... a local wholesaler had gotten him in and wasn't sure what it was... whoops!
As for the male bellus losing his color....
So far the hybrid has maintained his colors and seems to be getting longer streamers.
Where he came from... a local wholesaler had gotten him in and wasn't sure what it was... whoops!
As for the male bellus losing his color....
myerst2
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What aquariu is that at. I live in Sag Harbor. With a few ferry rides I am in Conneticut. It's not Mystic because I was there recently and wasn't very impressed. Stunning fish. So if the fish wasn't on yor dime, how much was he????? Also your wholesaler needs to start doing some research!!!!! He had a fish that many would pay BIG bucks for, far more than I'm sure you paid for it. Tim
JonTarutis
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myster2... its a private residence. Unfortunately not open to the public. As for the price... it was extremely reasonable considering what it was!
copps
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Jon boy! Thanks so much for chiming in and posting... stick around here a bit more... you'll have alot to add... still waiting for that e-mail... anxiously!
For a little bit of background on this fish... I was at MACNA this year, making the rounds... I love to get first hand information, and keep on top of oddballs and rarities that enter the trade throughout the world... one of the people I was catching up with was the LFS that got this fish... it's a major shop and one of the best in the nation... I know the owner and was chatting... and of course my standard question came up... "Any oddballs popped up?"... people know me more and more as the "angelfish guy" and so the owner said there was a Genicanthus that no one could figure out... he didn't have pics though, but Jon did! I met up with Jon (we had too known eachother) late night at a "fish nerd" party at MACNA, with both of us having put a few back. He brought up the photo on his phone and I knew it was a hybrid, but the pic was small on the phone, and the fish was even smaller! My guess if I were to put money on it was G. melanospilos / G. semifasciatus hybrid, having seen these before and knowing that their ranges overlap... (+1 AuroraDrvr!)... the interesting thing with Genicanthus than when it comes to other angelfish hybrids is that with Genicanthus being so sexually dimorphic, even with full species you get a range of intermediate coloration between male and female, so when you get a hybrid it adds that much more of a dynamic into the coloration... It would be interesting to add some females of both species to see who he spawns with...
Thanks again for chiming in Jon... and shoot me those hi res pics!
Copps
For a little bit of background on this fish... I was at MACNA this year, making the rounds... I love to get first hand information, and keep on top of oddballs and rarities that enter the trade throughout the world... one of the people I was catching up with was the LFS that got this fish... it's a major shop and one of the best in the nation... I know the owner and was chatting... and of course my standard question came up... "Any oddballs popped up?"... people know me more and more as the "angelfish guy" and so the owner said there was a Genicanthus that no one could figure out... he didn't have pics though, but Jon did! I met up with Jon (we had too known eachother) late night at a "fish nerd" party at MACNA, with both of us having put a few back. He brought up the photo on his phone and I knew it was a hybrid, but the pic was small on the phone, and the fish was even smaller! My guess if I were to put money on it was G. melanospilos / G. semifasciatus hybrid, having seen these before and knowing that their ranges overlap... (+1 AuroraDrvr!)... the interesting thing with Genicanthus than when it comes to other angelfish hybrids is that with Genicanthus being so sexually dimorphic, even with full species you get a range of intermediate coloration between male and female, so when you get a hybrid it adds that much more of a dynamic into the coloration... It would be interesting to add some females of both species to see who he spawns with...
Thanks again for chiming in Jon... and shoot me those hi res pics!
Copps
JonTarutis
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John-
The major thing holding me up on getting the photos out to you is that I need to sort through the 200+ photos I shot the other day. Everything from the army of assessors, both yellow and blue... to the randall's watchman pair.... Hopefully by the end of the weekend!!!!
Jon
The major thing holding me up on getting the photos out to you is that I need to sort through the 200+ photos I shot the other day. Everything from the army of assessors, both yellow and blue... to the randall's watchman pair.... Hopefully by the end of the weekend!!!!
Jon
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