Male Scribbled Angel

[Dussumeiri]

Thanks for letting me know guys about the male Scribbled Angel! I have just seen two male scribbled angels in person. The other one I have just seen today at Atlantis.Its also around 7-8" I'm not sure whether the one in the Den is actually a male from the picture. Maybe just the way they took they took it. The lines or scribbled on the males are more straighter and have a more brilliant blue like the picture in Scott Michael's book and the marine center website.
Thanks for the heads up!

 

[DFS]

Dussumeiri,
It is a challenge for us to take a perfect photograph that we are proud to display on our site of the fish offered in the Divers Den section of the LiveAquaria site, especially at the correct angle, or to show off specific characteristics of some species. Often times these beauties just wont cooperate even when we talk nice to them and give them treats

For others reading this thread that may not be aware, Male Scribbled Angels (Chaetodontoplus duboulayi) are normally more vivid blue and have a larger white vertical band from their head down past their cheek spine, as well as an “ irregular striped” pattern down the side of their body. Female adult Scribbled Angels normally have a small white patch in between their pectoral fin and eye, as well as a peppered spotted pattern on each side of their body.

Happy Reefing!
Kevin Kohen
Director of LiveAquaria
Drs. Foster and Smith