What type of rare fish would you want?
 

I got an early birthday (which is this Sun. Dec 7) present of a book about angelfish. Which got me thinking; What type of rare(ish) fish would you love to have if you could?

For me I want a king/passer angel (which I plan on getting in Jan.) and the spectacled/conspicillatus angel is pretty cool too.

If you add the passer do it last they can be very agressive my 3in was squaring with my 6in emporer RIP.

The conspicuos angel is another nice fish aswell that I have only seen once in my lifetime it was ordered for a customer here in the lm going for $1200. If you like angels check youtube for the clarion angel, if I had a million dollars I would definately buy that fish. I asked my freind how much it would cost for a 6in and he said probally around 7-9 thousand ouch :twised:

dalmation dogface puffer

I've been warned about the passer, did your passer kill off your emperor :sad: ? As much as I want a passer I don't want him to hurt/kill my other angels. I've had a bit of luck with aggressive fish (my sohal and clown tangs never bother each other or other tank mates) so here's hoping, but he'll be the last one in just to be on the safe side. Not sure I'll be able to find or afford a conspicuos but they're cool.

Nope the passer was one of the last to enter the tank and at first was shy. My emporer was largest and most dominant however after many battles with ich he couldn't shake it for the last time a few weeks back.

Makes me really sad to talk about it. I had him for over a year, my little french would clean him but now little frenchie is not so little and I guess while he would still clean the emporer he took bigger bites and what I figured was the ich got under the skin of the emporer and that was goliaths downfall. Prazi pro but it was too late sigh:cry:

http://www.aquarium.org.hk/articles/...s/image035.jpg

peppermint angel


or one of the more unique hybrids that you occasionally see.

(The patchy yellow tang that David Saxby has is pretty nifty)

Rare fish
 

I've had a Conspiculatus Angel before and they are absolutely awsome!!

I would definitely recommend them just as long as you are an experienced reefer and have a mature large tank. The conspic is very friendly (too friendly....always wagging it's tail when it saw me) and intelligent; amazing color.

A friend of mine, overseas, just sold a Conspicullatus and Personifer Angel Hybrid. The selling price was insane. Beautiful fish.

I'll post a pic of it later when he emails it to me.

If you want a super rare fish, I can get you the Apolemichthys Kingii. PM me for the price.

Also, the interruptus angel (Centropyge interruptus) is another uncommon fish if you like the rare and unusual.

Cheers,

Ian

Sorry to hear that :sad: and sorry to bring up sad memories.

I saw the peppermint in my book, he was cool until I found out they're twenty thousand dollars!

^cool angel but dang!!

here are pics of the clarion hope stephen doesnt mind

http://www.stephenwong.com/albums/re...rro_060104.jpg

HA... It better be able to drive me to work for that price.:razz:

juvi clarion


http://lh5.ggpht.com/_u6mmEy4rpZY/R2...049%20copy.jpg

Thanks for the info. My 230g is very painfully slowly cycling so I will have to wait till next year :wink: (Jan-Feb) before the cycle is done and I can add the fish.

I was watching a documentary a couple of weeks ago and they showed a shot of 3 or 4 clarion angels parasite-picking a huuuge manta ray. REALLY cool.

Im going to move away from the angel theme here and say that I have always always wanted to set up a species only tank for a couple Japanese dragon morays... drool. or, since they're not really technically fish, my other really-really-want fish: Halichoeres melanurus.

Wow.... what a sharp looking fish. It's interesting that the cleaner shrimp are doing so well at those low temps.

Justin:
Halichoeres melanurus is not a fish? Isn't it a wrasse? The one I googled was gorgeous.

I am in for the Clarion, I have been watching for one but I had no idea they cost that much. I guess I will need the million bucks first too! No wonder you don't see them for
sale. Yes I love angels and no don't forget the prazi pro, I have also learned that lesson.

Cool video, they are very pretty to bad they are so pricey.

Isn't a wrasse a type of fish? Either way cool wrasse.

They're not quite an million, they sell for about 3-4 thousand.

Well, if we are going rare/expensive:

Belonoperca pylei

http://www2.bishopmuseum.org/PBS/ima...2140711607.jpg

http://homepage2.nifty.com/tatsuro33...c_0123_001.jpg

:mrgreen:

Fishoholic I think what Leah meant was if we had a million dollars then these fish could be more affordable. She was replying to my post on first page...... A nice fish but again I would have to strike the lottery to buy one.

Diana that is a cool looking fish looks like part of a wrasse family.

Another cool deep water species is the iron butterfly very rare and hard to get they need cooler temps so a chilled system temps between 18-24c found in the waters in western and south japan.

http://www.japaninc.com/files/mgz-78...japan_fish.jpg

lol no, my bad; poor wording. I meant that the Dragon morays aren't fish; they're true eels. H. melanurus certainly is a fish (and yes, quite pretty too isn't it?)

Balistes vetula

and a 10 ft tank to go with it.

I saw one of these monsters at the baltimore aquarium, amazing.

:lol: That makes more sense.

They had a large queen trigger for sale at one of our lfs not to long ago. Nice fish but the lfs said any fish they put in with the queen trigger, it ending up killing them. Of course though, the queen trigger was in a smallish store display tank.