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    Anthias at the Sea Food Market?

    Wonderfish Aquarium, a fish store in Australia, had a customer send them photos of what they believed were Anthias being sold at a Sea Food Market. Not only are they Anthias, they are the beautiful deepwater Holanthias borbonius! Commonly called “Borbs”, just a couple years back, some of the first came to the U.S. and retailed [...]

    Wonderfish Aquarium, a fish store in Australia, had a customer send them photos of what they believed were Anthias being sold at a Sea Food Market. Not only are they Anthias, they are the beautiful deepwater Holanthias borbonius!

    Commonly called “Borbs”, just a couple years back, some of the first came to the U.S. and retailed for  ~$1,000. Today you’ll be lucky to find them for less than a few hundred. At $17/kg these were quite affordable… but unfortunately dead. What’s interesting is the collecting “season” for these guys ended quite a while ago. We’re very curious how these beautiful fish ended up as bycatch. 

    Be prepared to cringe at the photo’s to follow…

     

     

     

    Group of Odontanthias borbonius at the Market

    Obontanthias borbonius clearly identifiable

     

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    • felix

      sick sad world!
      AHHH!!!

      Felix-

    • richard

      insane, what a waste of a beautiful fish!

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