First wild video of a peppermint angel and the expansion of its range
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Wow!! That is beautiful. Thanks for sharing John!
copps
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You mean uncommon as in NEVER BEFORE!?:spin1:
About 2 1/2"... collected between 350 and 360... Rich told me the terrain was gnarly for collecting and it took him about 45 minutes!
fish on the left of polleni grouper looks close to c.abei.....is that a multicolor angel actually?
i somehow think same fish appeared muliple time..to find 3 peppermints in a 4min. video is too much for me actually...:celeb3:
Those are all separate fish...
They will absolutely get offers... as they have for the Centropyge abei and others... but will turn them down... such a good group always there at the aquarium... many friends of mine through the years have worked there... Bruce Carlson, Karen Brittain, Charles Delbeek and now Rick Klobuchar... Rick provided me with this photo of the peppermint... thanks to him for both showing me a great time on my last Hawaii trip and providing the image...
The amazing part is that if Chip Boyle never moved to the Cook Islands the Centropyge boylei never would have been discovered... until these dives at Moorea! There are so many species to be discovered in the "Twilight Zone"... I watched this week on the news all the talk of James Cameron going to the Marianas Trench and how it's the final frontier and blah blah blah... well less than 1% of the twilight zones such as this have been dived and explored, and the biodiversity there I'd bet will blow away the trenches...
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rachenbrazil
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Wow! Thanks John really thanks for sharing this AMAZING video and FANTASTIC photo....
@copp,
i admit that the diversity in depth between 100-200m can be mindblowing if properly explored...anyway cameron is ''explorer in residence" of nat geo.....so he only do BIG things...
one thing i would like to ask you,that is it true that in 80's this angel went to the US in multiple number..?
peter van sujlekom describing see it in boston in 1986..
http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/content/coral-interviews-pieter-van-suijlekom
the fish was officially described in 1992...
i admit that the diversity in depth between 100-200m can be mindblowing if properly explored...anyway cameron is ''explorer in residence" of nat geo.....so he only do BIG things...
one thing i would like to ask you,that is it true that in 80's this angel went to the US in multiple number..?
peter van sujlekom describing see it in boston in 1986..
http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/content/coral-interviews-pieter-van-suijlekom
the fish was officially described in 1992...
copps
Premium Member
I have no clue what the article is referring to... Chip Boyle did not discover this species until the fall of 1989, and Rich Pyle and him then collected three specimens later that year, which made it back to Rich's apartment on Oahu actually... they collected more in 1991 and these were the first to go to market... Julian Sprung actually received one of these original specimens for a client in Florida... an amazing story Julian told me... the fish was shipped in a giant box air mail... Julian actually dug up a few photos of the fish that I use in one of my presentations... none of these original specimens survived long though... as they were kept too warm...
also the fish is going to the Smithsonian...will it be kept in aquaria or as a specimen in jar as a part of moorea biocode project...??
Yes, the fish is "on loan" from the Smithsonian to the Waikiki Aquarium... until the fish dies a natural death!
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Kahuna Tuna
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That was anamazing video, thanks for sharing.
takayan
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It looks like she got some damage by being attacked other fish or some stress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtYiJhwuWOI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtYiJhwuWOI&feature=player_embedded
BeanMachine
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My wife and I already had planned vacation to Hawaii, the Big Island and Maui in 2 weeks, but now we are going to make a day detour over to Waikiki so we can see this beautiful fish. What an amazing video, thanks for sharing.
