Hotumatua, Debelius, Resplendent

Jordani

Jordani

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Can olny researchers collect rare fish such as hotumatua angelfish, debelius angelfish, resplendent angelfish, etc? If anybody has pictures of the rare fish listed could you post pics of them and tell your experience with them? Thanks
 
hotumatua is located on easter island which i believe is a no scuba collecting area. IE: i think they can free dive for fish and collect but the logistics to fly them or boat them off the island to Chili first deters many people i would think.

Resplendents are protected, as well as everything else on Ascension Island from what i understand.

debelius are free game if you can find someone to get them. They are deep and very isolated. another logistics matter i would think.

all very beautiful. I looked into the hotumatuas but had no luck tracking anyone down. There are a few fish on Easter island that are worth collecting too!
 
anyone got collectors they might want to share looking for quite a few of these rare pygmy angels like the interruptus and joculator
 
jc16 said:
anyone got collectors they might want to share looking for quite a few of these rare pygmy angels like the interruptus and joculator
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Those are not rare.

Interruptus are found in many Pacific Islands from Japan and on, I dont know what the collecting regulations in Japan.

Joculaors are not rare either.
Its just that there is one guy collecting them in Joculatorland (Cocos Isl).
 
anyone have contacts to that person on coco island or for the interruptus? also can't interruptus be found near the Hawaiian islands as well?
 
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ccampbell57 said:
Debelius came to the US 2 months back...they were $5500.
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Yep... tempting, but couldn't do it.
jc16 said:
also can't interruptus be found near the Hawaiian islands as well?
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Yes. They're found regularly in the NWHI (northwest HI), but that's protected, and if they're found near the main islands it's very, very deep (i.e., rarely collected from there).
 
I've owned all of these except hotumatua, as at the time I was not running a system cool enough... I'll post pics later tonight...

Luiz, jc16 is in Canada... LA does not ship there... I'll try and help you jc16!

The debelius two months ago never landed... the last debelius in the US I've confirmed died earlier this year...

stunreefer, you are probably thinking of Genicanthus personatus... Centropyge interrupta were originally thought to be a Japanese endemic, but in the 70s were found in the NWHI... they've only been scientifically documented in the three most NW Hawaiian Islands... a few unknown Centropyge were trawled from Nihoa (the "closest" of the NWHI... near Kauai), and were believed to be Centropyge interrupta... so, as of yet, no documented sightings of them in the main Hawaiian Islands, although I have a good friend that knows fish, and C. interrupta, that saw a photo of one at a dive shop that was supposedly taken off of the Kona Coast... if Centropyge aurantonota can make it to the West Coast of Africa, that is surely possible also...

Ascension will not even allow collection of C. resplendens for science, yet resplendens are taken out and shipped to Japan still... in Osaka earlier this year I saw wild resplendens in three different houses...

hotumatua should be available again next year... rare fish nuts, build up your bank accounts... next year will be a good year... :)
 
Once settled they do quite well and are a hardy pygmy... debelius are not a VERY deep angel, but not shallow... they have never been seen shallower than about 50 meters in Mauritius though, and there is not a high population density at Mauritius... the reason the fish went undiscovered for so long... so even if you have people at Mauritius, they need to be experienced divers and collectors that know where the fish is found... and even where it is found there are not many... the person who discovered the fish and collected them for years has not collected any in a couple of years now, and he probably won't as he's up there now!
 
Of these lovely fish, I had the privilege of keeping a small group of C replendens many years ago (mid 80s). They were easy to care for, ate anything and lived happily in a 75g soft coral "Dutch Mini Reef" for several years. Most folks thought they were little bright blue damsels due to their size. :)

Jump forward many years and I was able to get a close cousin, one of the hybrid fisheri/resplendens that Frank at RCT was breeding. It lived happily in a 120 reef for several years. Copps ended up with the parents when Frank closed down.

I would love to have a little group of replendens again. They are one of my favorites!

Jocs are cool and readily obtainable. Just be prepared to explain why you are so excited about a bi-color angel. :D

-Rob
 
rmougey said:
Jump forward many years and I was able to get a close cousin, one of the hybrid fisheri/resplendens that Frank at RCT was breeding. It lived happily in a 120 reef for several years. Copps ended up with the parents when Frank closed down.

I would love to have a little group of replendens again. They are one of my favorites!

Jocs are cool and readily obtainable. Just be prepared to explain why you are so excited about a bi-color angel. :D

-Rob
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Thats right :lol:

I know that Alicia still has her hybrid's from Frank and they are amazing everytime I get a chance to see them :)
 
Wow.... I managed to misspell resplendens twice in the same post! Sigh......

Here is a pic of my hybrid:
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-Rob
 
I read somewhere that the hotumatua angelfish was being captive bred. Does anybody know anything about this?
 
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