Just read on the forum that this guy from country critters in patchogue ny where I took this picture, got arrested for illegally collecting from a protected marine sanctuary off the keys last month and Is out on 20k$ bail, was in the paper . Wonder if this had anything to do with it, just went in there the other day and the had significantly less corals than usual.
Hiclarion angel $4500 at my lfs
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Just read on the forum that this guy from country critters in patchogue ny where I took this picture, got arrested for illegally collecting from a protected marine sanctuary off the keys last month and Is out on 20k$ bail, was in the paper . Wonder if this had anything to do with it, just went in there the other day and the had significantly less corals than usual.
copps
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This fish indeed looks to be wild caught... they've been regularly available recently... even within the past month... even small ones. The CB ones are also coming in.
$100 was the wholesale price back in the day... when I was slinging fish in North Jersey in high school in the early 90s they were regularly available at Aqua-tropics (now Absolutely Fish) in Clifton for $300 to $400... the same price as purple tangs! Funny thing was that asfur angels were about double that price!
Fortunately bandits have been done, and they are very close to the species you're looking to breed... get on it!
http://www.bluereefphoto.org/blog/2013/12/larval-rearing-of-the-bandit-angel-apolemichthys-arcuatus
Also touch base with Karen Brittain, not on RC here as paka.
Anyway, I've had my clarion pair for years now, and fortunately they survived the move... I have them under Radions and these fish glow red under the red channels of LED... it's pretty incredible... I need to get updated shots...
Here's the male... grown from a juvie I got from the first legal collection of them in years I got in February of '08... the fish is now a stud male...
The female... smaller but chunkier...
And the pair together... the male is a deeper orange which up until that point I'd only seen in wild shots...
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FishN00b83
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hey I live in sayville right by there. I stopped going there a little while ago because they never had corals worth buying. that's insane he was doing that and got caught.
humaguy
Premium Member
Yes, I heard that...don't know any details...very sad though, people have got to know better...
copps
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That's the real reason Country Critters has this fish labelled as legally collected... they were one of the many businesses that got nabbed in "Operation Rock Bottom", which was centered around a wholesaler in the Keys... the same guys I dived with years ago in this thread...
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1993508
Not long after that they became legendary for a different reason, along with a network of clients that included retail shops and public aquariums that knowingly trafficked in illegally collected wildlife that included eagle rays, sharks, live rock and corals collected in the Keys! Dick Perrin, the owner of Tropicorium and a legend in his own right, was also nabbed as part of this... along with illegally collecting his own baby alligators, all at the tender age of about 80!
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copps
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What was the loonie price on them?:spin3:
Dmorty217
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I'm not sure if Humaguys are CB or not, I'm sure several other people do wayneL, hedgedrew might have a few in his setup
copps
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Actually by "loonie price" I meant the Canadian price... the wholesale prices I've seen for both the wild and CB small clarions in the past month is well under 2K... but a long way from $500.
Allmost
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$ 3995 !
guess they didnt need to sell more than half of it lol Canadian $ is 1.09 so prety close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOFBjaNZnxQ
[watch from 28th second]
bullitr
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Northwest suburbs of Chicago, late 1980's.
copps
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How many Swiss Francs do they cost?:beer:
copps
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Retail price?
How long before that happens you think? I hope the breeding success continues to a point where they become commonplace, them and Conspic's, that would be great.
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