Cairns Marine Goldrim Chromis and Rainbow Thick Spine Acan

自从他们挥手以来已经有一段时间了Cairns Marineis back in the spotlight with a fantastic coral, and even more amazing new abyssal reef fish. The very colorful thickspine Acan and the Goldrim Chromis are two very different and exciting reef animals that anyone would love to enjoy in their personal reef tank.

The thick spine brain coral,Acanthastrea pachysepta是一种肉质的大息肉石珊瑚，长期以来一直被认为是叶叶, but this coral looks and especially behaves very differently from a typical Lobo. Coral collectors have known for a long time to separate the ‘orange Lobos’ from all the others because these corals will sting and kill every nearby corals, something we havepersonal experience with.

Thick Spine Acans are very common and hardy corals, often seen in green or orange colors, sometimes with a differently colored mouth, and we respect the vitality of this coral in an aquarium. The Thick Spine Acan that Cairns Marine recently collected shows a beautiful mix of orange and green color spread throughout its tissue and attractive splashes of dark and pink colors randomly distributed.

但或许更大的消息是一双Goldrim chromis,Chromis Fraraureawhich are the first ever collected alive for the aquarium hobby. At first glance these unique little chromis don’t look all that dissimilar from typical yellowtail damselfish but these fish will grow up into somethingverydifferent.

Goldrim Chromis于10月19日从凯恩斯（Cairns）以东110海里的Flora Reef收集，从146m的深处，只有6分钟的潜水时间才允许低于13.5m。这些Chromis Fraraurea在一条大约130 - 150m的地质断层线中发现了一个米高的裂缝，蒂姆·贝内特（Tim Bennett）正在寻找阿布（Abei）的绑带，当时大约有十二个小的Chromis表现出来。在有限的时间内，在扫描鸿沟时挖出了两个少年铬铁。

This is the first time this species of chromis have been collected and available for the aquarium trade, they are juvenile and are about 4cm from mouth to tip of tail. At this size the goldrim chromis are a lustrous silvery blue over a majority of the body with yellow pelvic, anal, and posterior dorsal fin as well as most of the tail.

与许多其他种类的Chromis一样，身体的颜色随着年龄和成熟而变得柔和，但Goldrim Chromis保留了其鲜黄色的颜色实际上散布在大部分背鳍上，实际上创造出了黄色新月形框架的外观，并导致了它的外观同名。进一步增加了这种非常罕见的水坝的陈旧，它的生长大小为10厘米或4英寸，因此投资于这种独特物种的收藏家将获得一种非常美丽的深水鱼类的奖励。