Hotumatua, Debelius, Resplendent
- Thread starter Jordani
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Cantonesefish
with active cooling
Some places that I would like to see some collection happening:
Pitcairn
Easter Island
Johnston Atoll
Guam (John get a rebreather!!)
Pitcairn
Easter Island
Johnston Atoll
Guam (John get a rebreather!!)
Some places that I would like to see some collection happening:
Pitcairn
Easter Island
Johnston Atoll
Guam (John get a rebreather!!)
johnston atoll falls under us military and marine reserve...
though i wonder why we don't see much of semifasciatus and semicinctus...
Yurivd
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i have been thinking of starting
copps
Premium Member
semifasciatus do trickle in from the northern Philippines... semicinctus is a Lord Howe endemic (the record from the Kermadec Islands is based on one specimen)... so we won't be seeing them anytime soon...
Yuri your South African coast has 13 documented species of angelfish... equal to the entire Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Pacific Ocean combined... go enjoy it!!! :bounce3:
Copps
Yurivd
New member
i was on holiday in Mauritius
and I met with a legend
Mr. D Pelicier :spin3:
he told me that only 16 debelius was ever sold by him
and that he thinks that apolemichthys guezei is at about 300m deep
he told me that he has made lots of dives in Reunion and Mauritius at 100m looking for it but never found it
and I met with a legend
Mr. D Pelicier :spin3:
he told me that only 16 debelius was ever sold by him
and that he thinks that apolemichthys guezei is at about 300m deep
he told me that he has made lots of dives in Reunion and Mauritius at 100m looking for it but never found it
copps
Premium Member
Excellent Yuri and congratulations... Daniel is indeed a legend and has contributed so much to ichthyology with his collections on Mauritius... he has many fish named in his honor yet that special Centropyge he collects is not... it should be Centropyge pelicieri as Daniel was the true one to discover that fish... perhaps there was a language barrier when he gave you the numbers he's collected on the debelius... as it is much closer to 60 than 16... yet he's seen many more and only would ever collect the juveniles... the population density of that fish is somewhere else!
So Yuri share some more photos or stories... did you get in the water there?
John
So Yuri share some more photos or stories... did you get in the water there?
John
Yurivd
New member
I met the king of gem tang collection (his name is mr gem tang )I think 90% of Mauritius gems he has collected (gem tang junior is in the top photo on the left also on reefcentral )
I neve finished my padi open water one ( my ear drum poped )
So I was only snorkeling it was really nice
Yurivd
New member
Only 2 guys have ever collected them Richard Pyle and Daniel Pelicier
Currently debelius is not collected :hmm5:
Yurivd
New member
Thy are at the same depth as personatus and rarer to vind in the wild
There are not a diver to collect them ...
