It’s no secret that marine angelfish are some of the highest profile pets for our saltwater and reef aquariums, and they are certainly among our favorite reef animals to write about. With a circumtropical distribution, their captive breeding breakthroughs, aberrations, and the ways that their hybrids remix the colors & patterns, there’s an endless stream of news and stories regarding our favorite members of Pomacanthidae.
In the previous year of 2018 we had an even mix of all of these topics and special angelfish to write about, and 2019 was no different. However the past calendar year saw our browsers come across some of the most famed, uber rare angelfish species, some exquisite aberrants and hybrids, and some fish species and specimens that the aquarium hobby has simply never seen before.
这将是一个相当大的考验e for the first year of the new decade to rival all the excellent stories we were fortunate enough to write about. But knowing the breadth and pace of the reef and saltwater aquarium fish hobby, we wouldn’t expect anything less than for the collectors, breeders and underwater photographers to fish up some really great surprises.
Apolemichthys guezei, the ‘Bigfoot’ of Rare Fish Photographed in Reunion
有时我们将稀有鱼描述为“圣杯”或unobtainium但是，Guezei Ganselfish甚至超过了非常独特的名称，因为这条鱼生活在印度洋西部的偏远玛斯加林高原。去年的最后几周，最稀有的人的熟女之一，即传说中的团圆绑住了，仅第二次就在其自然栖息地中拍照。
On the other end of the spectrum, we had exciting news that a fairly common fish, the blackspot swallowtail angelfish was being commercially bred by Biota, and these are gradually becoming more widely distributed. Hopefully this early success and experience with one species ofGenicanthuswill lead to broader protocols for Biota to breed even more of the beloved and graceful swallowtail angelfish species.
Orange coral beauties are well known even though we only learn of several specimens that are collected and offered to aquarists every year. This particular中央副本Bispinosa几乎完全是橙色的，这表明我们希望这条鱼将保留其几乎所有或大部分盲目的橙色颜色。
If you’ve been in the aquarium hobby for any length of time, surely by now you’ve heard about the fabled peppermint angelfish. Coming only from the South Pacific Ocean and at depths only reachable by specially trained divers, collections ofParacentropyge boylei很少，而且相距甚远。对库克群岛的一场专门探险为水族馆的爱好带来了许多现场和健康的薄荷！
巧合的是，在库克群岛收集了薄荷般的缠身！少数P. Boylei收集并在现场进行调节，最终在Steinhart水族馆参加了公开展览。尽管只有一个现场薄荷的天人提供出售，只有一个高级辊子可以为其付30,000美元，但任何人都可以以更低的入场费来访问旧金山的薄荷。
库克群岛的南太平洋收集工作不仅仅是钓鱼薄荷的！这Genicanthus spinus由liveaquaria收购可能不是水族馆爱好中这种非常稀有物种的第一个标本，但它非常接近。虽然旋转旋转的旋转器是莱茵兰德的淡蓝色女性，但通过行为刺激的一部分，有可能成为小相关的后宫的一部分Genicanthus天使，这个标本可以鼓励成为一个更有趣的男性。
神仙鱼的异常标本确实非常正常，并且在一些最常见的物种（如《古兰经》天使）或珊瑚美女的珊瑚裙（例如上面提到的橙色示例中）往往会更常见。但是，就像弗拉金求助者一样普遍，我们无法想到水族馆爱好出现的任何明显异常的标本，除了这一样本中，还有一种奇异的鱼类。
Of all the angelfish captive breeding breakthroughs we’ve been waiting to hear about, the regal angelfish has been at the top of our list for a number of reasons. Not only are smallpygoplites diacanthusabsolutely gorgeous, their finnicky eating preference would certainly benefit from a life begun growing up and feeding on prepared aquarium foods. Not to mention, many aquarium native angelfish show captive breeding artifacts that in breeders usually strive to reduce, but any aberration of the regal angelfish’s many blue, white and yellow bars would possibly be very attractive and desirable.
看到中小型的人的杂种始终是一种景象，让我们想知道成熟时他们的颜色和图案会变成什么样，但是这个巨型混合动力皇帝已经已经成长了。据信，这种特殊的杂种绑扎是皇帝和安纳鲁斯的神伤者之间的十字架，很有趣的是，看到皇帝天使的基本外观在这个特殊的十字架中占主导地位。
Debelius的熟女是最不可能获得的侏儒天使狂物之一，这主要是由于它在印度洋西部偏爱的极端深度。有Centropyge debelius以前是由毛里求斯的深部潜水员故意收集的，但捕获该物种的捕获是在马达加斯加发现的，而且在仅五十英尺的非典型深度。很难知道这一发现是多么罕见，是否是位置和深度的一次性，但到目前为止，这是我们从马达加斯加听说过的唯一的Debelius Anselfish。
