Sorry John... But I am calling out COPPS!!!
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jmaneyapanda
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14016679#post14016679 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by copps
Look at the shirts on you two! Oh MY Lord!!!!!
Family looks amazing buddy. Get those critters on skates and teach them to stick check!!!
Regarding the FO, which is awesome, why the seperator? Just for new adds, or temperoary issue, or is that a new type of antarctic live rock?
jmaneyapanda
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stupid double posting dummy jeremy.
DFS
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John,
Your collection is coming along nicely, and I can honestly say you have the most incredible collection of Pomacanthidae I have ever seen in one location, let along in someone's home.
The hogfish Bodianus prognatus with the elongated snout hailing from the Line Islands is actually listed on page 230 of Reef Fishes Identification Tropical Pacific by Allen, Steene, Humann, and Deloach. This is a fish you don’t see too often at all described in most marine fish publications, and with the limited imports this year from Christmas is a fish that is very rare in the aquarium trade.
Hope all is well; I would like to wish you and everyone here on RC happy holidays!
Cheers!
Kevin Kohen
Director of LiveAquaria
Drs. Foster and Smith
Your collection is coming along nicely, and I can honestly say you have the most incredible collection of Pomacanthidae I have ever seen in one location, let along in someone's home.
The hogfish Bodianus prognatus with the elongated snout hailing from the Line Islands is actually listed on page 230 of Reef Fishes Identification Tropical Pacific by Allen, Steene, Humann, and Deloach. This is a fish you don’t see too often at all described in most marine fish publications, and with the limited imports this year from Christmas is a fish that is very rare in the aquarium trade.
Hope all is well; I would like to wish you and everyone here on RC happy holidays!
Cheers!
Kevin Kohen
Director of LiveAquaria
Drs. Foster and Smith
jmaneyapanda
Commencing hatred
No comment on the shirt, though, huh? I dont blame you. There IS no explaining that!!!! Well, we all cant be as good looking as me:
John, do you still have the 180 reef up? Is that butterfly a normal Tinkerii, or a "special" Raoaps?
I dont blame you. There IS no explaining that!!!! Well, we all cant be as good looking as me:
John, do you still have the 180 reef up? Is that butterfly a normal Tinkerii, or a "special" Raoaps?
rachenbrazil
Member
new year .... new pics ... please ... !
myerst2
Active member
Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Well looking at some of the Japanese Blogs and retailer websites a familiar face showed up. What do you know, it's John with what looks like a person of Asian decent in complete joy as I would at looking at one of John's amazing displays. Now to have a thread on a Japanese blog post about your displays and mind you one of the premier shops in Japan is like winning the nobel peace price of aquarists. So kudos to you John!!! Well deserved and aquarists world wide are in awww of your accomplishments!!! Still hate in a very jealous way I must say as I am sounding too complimentary!!! Any updates??!!! What is the deal with the Lio? below.
Here is the link.....
http://www.blueharbor.co.jp/factory/devil/blog/rare/#a001818
Here is that guy... Copps I believe....
Lio. sp. Any info about this fish? Looks huge!!!
Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Well looking at some of the Japanese Blogs and retailer websites a familiar face showed up. What do you know, it's John with what looks like a person of Asian decent in complete joy as I would at looking at one of John's amazing displays. Now to have a thread on a Japanese blog post about your displays and mind you one of the premier shops in Japan is like winning the nobel peace price of aquarists. So kudos to you John!!! Well deserved and aquarists world wide are in awww of your accomplishments!!! Still hate in a very jealous way I must say as I am sounding too complimentary!!! Any updates??!!! What is the deal with the Lio? below.
Here is the link.....
http://www.blueharbor.co.jp/factory/devil/blog/rare/#a001818
Here is that guy... Copps I believe....
Lio. sp. Any info about this fish? Looks huge!!!
AuroraDrvr
New member
Yes. John is laid over in Japan for a little before he heads to Guam.
Matt_Wandell
New member
Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Liopropoma aurora, Hawaiian endemic.
Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14226257#post14226257 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by myerst2
Lio. sp. Any info about this fish? Looks huge!!!
Liopropoma aurora, Hawaiian endemic.
Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Tim - I ran that link through Google Translate and here's one of the quotes I got:
"This motherf****r was wearing and a welcome gift After BH-shirt he wore when calculating met with Dr. Randall and Richard Pyle. "
I don't know exactly what that means, but it made me laugh.
Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Tim - I ran that link through Google Translate and here's one of the quotes I got:
"This motherf****r was wearing and a welcome gift After BH-shirt he wore when calculating met with Dr. Randall and Richard Pyle. "
I don't know exactly what that means, but it made me laugh.
copps
Premium Member
Re: Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Re: Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
Hah! Thanks for the link... how do you guys find these things?
Anyway, I'm checking in from Guam in the Marianas Islands of Micronesia... on my way here I stopped in Osaka Japan specifically for a "fish trip" to meet up with friends. The owner of Blue Harbor, Koji Wada, who I've known for years, was amazingly gracious... picking me up at the airport and chaffeuring me around the whole trip... and it was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING... I have many photos to go through and I will share them when I return home. I stop in Hawaii on the way back to do some collecting too... woo hoo!
If you click on the blog link now you'll see some photos of my systems, but the one you posted with me in the background is from Kyoto Japan on a day trip we took there... again I have a ton of shots to share when the time comes... this was that tank and one of the photos I took... this was not even the most special tank in Kyoto alone... despite the pair of wild resplendens angels... and on the bottom left of the photo is one of the respendens/fisheri hybrids from Frank in Hawaii... if you guys remember the broodstock pair retired with me in my basement... the owner of this tank and I felt a connection not only with our passion but the fact that I owned the parents of one of his fish half a world away...
While we were driving Koji got news from Hawaii that both of us have been waiting for for a while... finally... at long last... the first Liopropoma aurora was pulled from Hawaii in years... this gorgeous Lio landed in Japan the night before I left... and with a price over three times that of the recent carmabis seen in the states!
Also in Kyoto I was reunited with the personatus we caught in October of '07 in Hawaii... He/she is doing well!
... and sharing the tank with this AMAZING fish... I'll elaborate more later...
... funny thing is that that tank is not even the most special in that guys house!
Another photo on the blog that is mine I haven't shared with you guys... one of my sps tanks... the fish were hiding as I turned the circ pumps off...
More pics will come...
Re: Re: Sorry John have to do it again..... You thought it would stop!!!
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14226257#post14226257 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by myerst2
Well looking at some of the Japanese Blogs and retailer websites a familiar face showed up. What do you know, it's John with what looks like a person of Asian decent in complete joy as I would at looking at one of John's amazing displays. Now to have a thread on a Japanese blog post about your displays and mind you one of the premier shops in Japan is like winning the nobel peace price of aquarists. So kudos to you John!!! Well deserved and aquarists world wide are in awww of your accomplishments!!! Still hate in a very jealous way I must say as I am sounding too complimentary!!! Any updates??!!! What is the deal with the Lio? below.
Here is the link.....
http://www.blueharbor.co.jp/factory/devil/blog/rare/#a001818
Here is that guy... Copps I believe....
Lio. sp. Any info about this fish? Looks huge!!!
Hah! Thanks for the link... how do you guys find these things?
Anyway, I'm checking in from Guam in the Marianas Islands of Micronesia... on my way here I stopped in Osaka Japan specifically for a "fish trip" to meet up with friends. The owner of Blue Harbor, Koji Wada, who I've known for years, was amazingly gracious... picking me up at the airport and chaffeuring me around the whole trip... and it was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING... I have many photos to go through and I will share them when I return home. I stop in Hawaii on the way back to do some collecting too... woo hoo!If you click on the blog link now you'll see some photos of my systems, but the one you posted with me in the background is from Kyoto Japan on a day trip we took there... again I have a ton of shots to share when the time comes... this was that tank and one of the photos I took... this was not even the most special tank in Kyoto alone... despite the pair of wild resplendens angels... and on the bottom left of the photo is one of the respendens/fisheri hybrids from Frank in Hawaii... if you guys remember the broodstock pair retired with me in my basement... the owner of this tank and I felt a connection not only with our passion but the fact that I owned the parents of one of his fish half a world away...
While we were driving Koji got news from Hawaii that both of us have been waiting for for a while... finally... at long last... the first Liopropoma aurora was pulled from Hawaii in years... this gorgeous Lio landed in Japan the night before I left... and with a price over three times that of the recent carmabis seen in the states!
Also in Kyoto I was reunited with the personatus we caught in October of '07 in Hawaii...
He/she is doing well!... and sharing the tank with this AMAZING fish... I'll elaborate more later...
... funny thing is that that tank is not even the most special in that guys house!
Another photo on the blog that is mine I haven't shared with you guys... one of my sps tanks... the fish were hiding as I turned the circ pumps off...
More pics will come...
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copps
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Yes... that's Tetsuo Otake... he's a young hardcore hobbyist and angelfish nut in Japan that was the translator of the book "Angelfishes of the World"... Years ago when we met I felt an amazing connection and we established that he's the Copps of Japan... or I'm the Tetsuo of the US... We both have an insatiable passion for these fish, and more useless information about them that we always share with eachother...Oh, and John you'll appreciate this... I was going through some magazines in the store there and I found this page... two shots of us side by side both holding the Angelfishes book...
I think the last time I translated a photo on that blog of me it was"crazy angelfish *expletive*"
Koji was happy to see me wearing Blue Harbor shwag when I met with Rich Pyle, John Earle, and Jack Randall a couple of years ago... On Rich's desk was coincidentally the holotype specimen of the newest angelfish species described... Centropyge abei... it was a coincidence as the Bishop Museum does not own that fish... it was just passing through... Gerry Allen described it and told me the fish fell basically between Centropyge and Apolemichthys after the meristics... and it's designation in Centropyge could change... as I checked out the jar I thought Apolemichthys from across the room... it looked most similar to A. griffisi... but the living specimen at Waikiki is smaller and looks more Centropyge... but very unique...
And the same Blue Harbor shirt at Jack Randall's house in Kaneohe... for those that don't know, Dr. Jack Randall has described more reef fish species than any ichthyologist in history... now over 700... anyone reading this thread this far has the obligation to know this guy... he's been more places and seen and handled more fish than Jacques Couteau... an amazing man that is still at it in his mid eighties! One thing we all share is a passion for fish that started growing up as a child... Jack told me about keeping a saltwater aquarium first in the 1930s!
copps
Premium Member
Oh... and last but not least... two of my recent fishies... hope they're still alive when I get home!
A Centropyge potteri that lacks all black pigment... it's just blue and orange...
... and a tiny xanthic Holacanthus bermudensis... the Japanese guys have never seen anything like this...
Anyway guys... I'll check in more later when I have more time... until then I have this view in front of my laptop...
Copps
A Centropyge potteri that lacks all black pigment... it's just blue and orange...
... and a tiny xanthic Holacanthus bermudensis... the Japanese guys have never seen anything like this...
Anyway guys... I'll check in more later when I have more time... until then I have this view in front of my laptop...
Copps
espocrespo
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Man what i wanted to, to get where u are, stunning mate absolutely stunning, the fish where ur off to and japan, good luck mate.
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