Couldn't resist this unique beauty...

[SDguy]

 

[euod]

Congrats! I thought it was a well defined hybrid.

 

[SDguy]

I thought it was a well defined hybrid.

Are you asking me if I know what hybrid it is? I said unique because of the yellow eye band, and the yellow edges to the forehead band... for the price I paid, it is unique

 

[rachenbrazil]

Congrats ! Really beautiful fish !

 

[rssjsb]

Where are you going to put it? I've been sorely tempted to try one of these (or something in the same family) in my reef.

 

[SDguy]

Fowlr

 

[Ghosty]

Very pretty! How long before it's out of QT?

 

[SDguy]

Thanks. Those are actually the vendor shots...I'll get it next week. Then standard QT for 2 months.

 

[Allmost]

wow ! unique indeed.

congrats

 

[SSprince]

Beautiful! I can't wait to get my tank going!!!

 

[aandfsoccr04]

Such a beautiful fish. I was looking at that when I ordered the pair of lineatus Kevin had, but I didn't want to risk it in the reef not knowing how it would fare. Congrats on a great pick up, Peter! :thumbsup:

 

[stuifbol]

Congrats Peter with this unique fish:dance: very cool

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

What a beauty! Congrats Peter!

 

[Rapide]

Why not reef? Shouldn't it be quite reefsafe
Is it tinkeri x burgessi?

 

[SDguy]

Why not reef? Shouldn't it be quite reefsafe
Is it tinkeri x burgessi?

Reef is full, fish-wise.

It was listed as a tinkeri x burgessi hybrid. I like the amount of yellow that shows up in the forehead... closest I'll ever get to a flavocoronatus, I suspect :lol:

 

[Rapide]

What about declivis?

BTW; to me that IS the flavocoronatus!!

 

[SDguy]

I'm admittedly not super familiar with which species overlap and where

 

[copps]

Hey Peter, nice fish! These are all coming out of Majuro in the Marshall Islands, although found elsewhere in the central Pacific... while it's impossible to know what's going on without looking at DNA, these fish are the result of a "hybrid swarm" there, where there's been an influx of DNA from a number of the Pacific Roaops butterflies... how many is impossible to know... but for sure it appears that burgessi and tinkeri have been represented... some specimens show no or almost no second crown as in tinkeri, like the one shown at PIA left for sale now... Spencer Tinker must be rolling over in his grave! The collector has also gotten what appeared to be a full declivis too, and some specimens show markings of that species... the "true" flavocoronatus was originally only found off the Navy base where I work in Guam... and while many of these Marshallese specimens show the yellowish second band as in "true" flavocoronatus it's tough to tell if that translates to flavo DNA or something else... the second crown of all true flavos is much smaller and bright yellow... all of these from the Marshall's have shown the large second crown of burgessi in terms of patterning... I've noticed that with my specimens in higher light the second crown will darken up... almost suntan... and under ambient light it lightens up... if you have just ambient light in QT you may notice the second crown of this guy lighten up... One of my guys you've seen before I believe...

Copps

 

[SDguy]

Thanks for the info John, very interesting!

 

[copps]

Thanks for the info John, very interesting!

You of all people would appreciate this!

Take some before and after shots... I'd be interested to see what the crown does.

John