OMG! boylei and abei... please take that wrasse out!

[Yurivd]

We are donating one of the narcosis angels to the aquarium.

Nice going now lots more can see them

 

[lebreef]

and an update, things seem to have settled.

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[mountainste]

I heard it is wikiki aquarium's tank

 

[ItsNotJustFish]

wow great vids! cant wait to see one in person one of these days! my dream fish.

 

[copps]

I read that there abei's died
The one in the tank was colected by Forrest Young

Yuri you may have gotten your facts mixed up... Forrest collected the holotype specimen of the species... an amazing story... he caught the holotype while hunting for coelacanths in Sulawesi... funded by Dr. Yoshitaka Abe of Aquamarine Fukushima in Japan... thus the name given to the Centropyge... the person who first discovered the fish, Pat Colin, already had a Centropyge named after him.

Here's a shot of that that holotype fish... it happened to be sitting on Rich Pyle's desk on one of my trips to the Bishop Museum in Hawaii... Rich is holding the fish... John Earle in the center...

You may be thinking of the few that Brian Greene collected on the expedition with Rich Pyle... While Rich only caught one fish his was the only one to survive...

And for a blast from the past... here's some shots of what at the time was the most famous fish collected by Rufus... the first Genicanthus personatus collected in at least ten years (this was back in the fall of '07)

I happened to be driving the boat when this historic fish was collected... here's a shot of Rufus I took... in case you're wondering this is the grin that results just after catching a $5,000 wholesale price fish... :spin3:

And one of the thousand photos I took with this fish...

Congrats again Rufus... and here's to many international dive expeditions!

Copps

 

[auem]

abei certainly is a strange angel....in one glance it can be mistaken as raccoon butterfly,me think...the color scheme is such...:wildone:

 

[copps]

abei certainly is a strange angel....in one glance it can be mistaken as raccoon butterfly,me think...the color scheme is such...:wildone:

Convergent evolution... and when I saw the holotype pictured above I thought Apolemichthys... I spoke with Gerry Allen who described the species, and he said abei fell between Apolemichthys and Centropyge... and he wouldn't be surprised in the future if the genus changes after the DNA is looked at...

 

[aquaph8]

Amazing pics John, always enjoy them.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Convergent evolution... and when I saw the holotype pictured above I thought Apolemichthys... I spoke with Gerry Allen who described the species, and he said abei fell between Apolemichthys and Centropyge... and he wouldn't be surprised in the future if the genus changes after the DNA is looked at...

It is changing alright Copps! More to come (not really soon though).

 

[29reef]

So when does Frank get his pair so the rest of us can enjoy some nice CB peppermints....

 

[lebreef]

A nice video, fish has been offered $30,000!!

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and another one

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[auem]

which video is taken earlier...?

in the first one,the tail of the peppermint seems damaged...in the second one it looks ok...

 

[auem]

which video is taken earlier...?

in the first one,the tail of the peppermint seems damaged...in the second one it looks ok...

 

[bullitr]

Copps
Thanks for the info your tank is always inspirational!