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Lightning Maroon Clownfish

JRWOHLER

JRWOHLER

I don't know how many of you get Blue Zoo Aquatic's email newsletters but I find them to be a cut above the standard sales pitch.  I ordered from them very early in my reefing career and was impressed with their way of doing business.  Heck I still use their acclimation setup.

Anyway they had great article on this new RARE(in this case really true) clown morph.
They documented the fish from capture to sale.  Great read and have to say that there are so many things right with this fish I hope they have great success.
1) sustainable collection
2) good shipping
3) selling to respectable breeder vs some rich Joe
4) can you say natural good looking fish

Anyway as a member of the conservation committee just wanted to point this one out as done the right way IMHO.  Take a look the article is great.

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/resources.asp?show=416
 
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john90009

NJRC Member
its definitely the nicest looking clownfish in my opinion. ranks up at the top with the true perculas and the best looking picassos. Just wish they were nice temperamental fish and cheap lol
 
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Ret_Talbot

Hey New Jersey Reefers! I do not live in New Jersey, but my sister does...does that count? Anyway, my name is Ret Talbot, and I am a writer and photographer who frequently covers the marine aquarium industry. I happened to be in Papua New Guinea when this fish was collected, as I was there researching a story on the SEASMART Program. I have followed this fish closely from the SEASMART Program's export facility in Port Moresby PNG to Matt Pedersen's tank, and I wanted to make sure you all knew how to continue to follow the story. Matt has started a blog called The Lightning Project about the fish. You can view it here:

http://www.lightning-maroon-clownfish.com/

For more on the backstory, you have the lengthy (for an online article) Blue Zoo article linked above and the shorter SEASMART article that can be read here:

http://seasmart.ecoez.com/spotlight.html

For more on PNG and the SEASMART Program, feel free to check out my blog on the trip, which you can find here:

http://www.rettalbot.com/onassignment/PNG.html

Enjoy!
 
JRWOHLER

JRWOHLER

Thanks for the extra links, appreciate you taking the time to come on board and share with us the behind the scene info. Having read the article I guess there was just the one morph collected, but were there others left behind?
 
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Ret_Talbot

There are other on the same reef. The PNG lightning clownfish collected in 2008 was from this same reef, and, anecdotally, others have been spotted, but this one is the most dramatic seen and photographed to date.

Ret
 
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mnat

Officer Emeritus
Staff member
Moderator
I am very very happy to see it went to a serious breeder. I am glad such a rare fish is in good hands and hopefully will wind up being aquacultured. Also read about your collection program, very impressive.
 
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Ret_Talbot

mnat said:
I am very very happy to see it went to a serious breeder. I am glad such a rare fish is in good hands and hopefully will wind up being aquacultured. Also read about your collection program, very impressive.
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SEASMART is doing some great things in PNG, and we should all be pleased that the fish is now in Matt's able hands...stay tuned...this is only the start! :)
 
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Ret_Talbot

mnat said:
I am very very happy to see it went to a serious breeder. I am glad such a rare fish is in good hands and hopefully will wind up being aquacultured. Also read about your collection program, very impressive.
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I wish SEASMART was my collection program, as I think it has a ton of potential in terms of a sustainable model for the future of the hobby. Alas...I'm just a lowly writer who is writing about the Program. On the up-side, my article should appear in the May/June issue of CORAL Magazine! -Ret
 
qwik

qwik

JRWOHLER said:
I don't know how many of you get Blue Zoo Aquatic's email newsletters but I find them to be a cut above the standard sales pitch. I ordered from them very early in my reefing career and was impressed with their way of doing business. Heck I still use their acclimation setup.

Anyway they had great article on this new RARE(in this case really true) clown morph.
They documented the fish from capture to sale. Great read and have to say that there are so many things right with this fish I hope they have great success.
1) sustainable collection
2) good shipping
3) selling to respectable breeder vs some rich Joe
4) can you say natural good looking fish


I also hope he sells them at normal prices instead of "prices just for the rich joe"

Anyway as a member of the conservation committee just wanted to point this one out as done the right way IMHO. Take a look the article is great.

http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/resources.asp?show=416
Click to expand...
 
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ReeferNets

Im glad to see who got the clown, cause i know matt will do good things. '

I have been saying it since it showed up on reef builders because its possible that these patterns may not hold up.

Ret, what i wanted to know was if have noticed any ph fluctuations in PNG or any food ofthe clowns.

I am starting to think we are going to see more and more of this with all fish as the reefs begin to shrink. Something is wrong in the enviroment is causing their striping to change. In meta lack of quality foods or bad water condtions can cause deformities and striping.

Since our reefs have been in the decline for over 20 years which related to the first importation of picassos and stuff like that. We are seeing more and more hybrid fish cause the areas where they live are starting to co mingle. Hybrid angels and tangs.

Im sure some of you saw the show about the American brown bear that met up with a cute polar bear and created a hybrid. The two worlds collided cause their enviroment collide cause of their shrinking areas.

By the way i think it should be called the spiderman clowns cause its the coolest pattern on a wild caught fish ive seen;.
 
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Ret_Talbot

ReeferNets said:
Im glad to see who got the clown, cause i know matt will do good things. '

I have been saying it since it showed up on reef builders because its possible that these patterns may not hold up.

Ret, what i wanted to know was if have noticed any ph fluctuations in PNG or any food ofthe clowns.

I am starting to think we are going to see more and more of this with all fish as the reefs begin to shrink. Something is wrong in the enviroment is causing their striping to change. In meta lack of quality foods or bad water condtions can cause deformities and striping.

Since our reefs have been in the decline for over 20 years which related to the first importation of picassos and stuff like that. We are seeing more and more hybrid fish cause the areas where they live are starting to co mingle. Hybrid angels and tangs.

Im sure some of you saw the show about the American brown bear that met up with a cute polar bear and created a hybrid. The two worlds collided cause their enviroment collide cause of their shrinking areas.

By the way i think it should be called the spiderman clowns cause its the coolest pattern on a wild caught fish ive seen;.
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The fact that this may be environmental is something I have been casually discussing with some folks involved in the SEASMART Program. I was only in Papua New Guinea for a few weeks while researching my story on SEASMART, so I have no historic or baseline data. The fishery management area (FMA) where this fish was collected is adjacent to the capital city, Port Moresby, which is the largest port city in the South Pacific. -Ret
 
qwik

qwik

Could it also be that now that deformaties are fetching higher prices they are being sought out and collected instead of disregarded or culled ?

Who knows ,these fish could of been out there forever but thought worthless ! Now that collectors see the prices they fetch we might be in for alot more unique fish being sought after and brought to market .
 
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