An artful look at Bali Aquarich’s captive bred angelfish triumphs

Any casual or regular reader of Reef Builders’ pages will no doubt be well acquainted with the powerhouse of marine fish breeding that is Bali Aquarich. Mr. Wen-Ping Su and associates have pioneered the first captive breeding of so many…

Captive raised maze angels land at Quality Marine

The maze angelfish, Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus, is one of the elusive species of large marine angels that we’ve been particularly obsessed with for quite sometime. To make up for practically never seeing any specimens in the country, we’ve frequently shared amazing…

We didn’t realize Maze Angelfish could even get this nice

The Maze Angelfish is an unusual, enigmatic “species” which may represent the frequent crossing and back-crossing with a syngameon of related Chaetodontoplus species. The Blue spot angelfish, blue line angelfish and grey poma angelfish are thought to provide some of…

Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus syn., the orange face angelfish from Japan

Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus syn., the orange face angelfish was recently aquired by a Japanese marine aquarium store called Sea Park.  The orange face angelfish usually is usually collected from the waters of Taiwan, but this fish was collected from the ocean…

LiveAquaria’s Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus syn., the orange face angelfish

The orange face angelish, Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus, is a highly elusive ‘species’ of Chaetodontoplus. This elusive fish is only available from Taiwanese reefs and the fish is believed to be a hybrid species perhaps between C. septentrionalis and C. melanosoma. There…