What rare angel is the least owned?

[coralite]

Wow, that last image must have been at Clipperton Atoll, I spy a barberfish and a giant hawkfish.

 

[SDguy]

ID the tangs for extra credit!

 

[coralite]

Ctenochaetus marginatus, I dont know what the common name is.

 

[SDguy]

So does anyone know how/why the LBA has a Clipperton angel?

 

[coralite]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13356859#post13356859 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SDguy
So does anyone know how/why the LBA has a Clipperton angel?

Cause it's cool and someone at the LBA is an anglefish enthusiast like us? (with more money of course)

 

[SDguy]

Meaning did they go out and get it themselves? Was it confiscated, like the rumors i heard about all the clarions I saw there? Give me the dirt, folks!!

 

[coralite]

If I recall, I think the fish was aquired from another public aquarium which tore down an exhibit containing the Limbaughi. There have been no new clipperton collections for 6-7 yrs now, as far as I know.

 

[SDguy]

Awww, that wasn't juicy at all....

 

[coralite]

SDguy, you got PM.

 

[Sheol]

This may be the LEAST owned Holocanthus species.. LOL

Matthew

 

[SDguy]

Isn't there a rather fugly solid black deep water one that would be even less owned?

 

[CarlC]

There is a rather fugly looking black one. The name slips my mind but it is a Cheatodontoplus species. Only a few have been collected by deep trawling nets.

Carl

 

[Chibils]

Chaetodontoplus niger?

I'm digging it. Not fugly at all.

 

[coralite]

Chaetodontoplus niger is not a Holocanthus species, but yeah it is probably one of the least along with a handful of other species.

 

[myerst2]

Who took the sharpie to that beautiful angel.

 

[SDguy]

No, I thought there was a holacanthus species that is only known from a couple specimens that were trawled up....

 

[copps]

There are only seven known species of Holacanthus... and all are shallow water... with Holacanthus limbaughi being by far the rarest both in the trade and in numbers in the wild... Clippertons really have the most restricted range of ANY angelfish species... The other ones with a tiny range have at least waifed to other locations like Centropyge nahackyi...

 

[SDguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13361542#post13361542 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by copps
....at least waifed to other locations like Centropyge nahackyi...

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Mmmm, one of those can waif into my tank any ol' time it wants

 

[Vili_Shark]

Excellent pics of the Clipperton.
One of the fish on my most wanted list.

 

[myerst2]

Those angels are stunning. The angels that are the most rarely sen or kept are the hybrids, color morphs, etc. Here are some pics of some morph angels. Most pics if not all pics are from Japanese blogs that are linked to blueharbor.co/jp Check these bad boys out. My favorite has to be what i think is a Annularis/Imper. hybrid? Copps? Oh one more thing if you read this Copps or anyone for that matter. What's the deal with queen angelsfrom St. Paul's Rocks,(koi angels). Why does it happen and why don't they collect them? It's the first pic. Later, Tim
Sorry one more thing.... Promise this is the last. What about Ballinae as the least owned? Second picture...