Comments on: Rare Fish | True Chaetodontoplus personifer Hits Japan

By: eric michael

eric michael — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:49:52 +0000

Maido ! Tetsuo,

I am surprised C. personifer is only $400! I would think that the $800 price would be the cost here in the USA. I am glad though, not every rare fish needs to be so expensive.

C. duboulayi variants can be very beautiful. Recently there has one with orange lines, but I do not know where it ended up. Do these variants come to Japan often?

By: Tetsuo

Tetsuo — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:49:36 +0000

Hi Eric,
Before many people had not mentioned this.
Usually we said Chaetodontoplus personifer from west Australia with $400.
I think last year, people started to say “True Chaetodontoplus personifer”, and the price was increased to $800-1000.
This year, fortunately the price goes back to $400. (We are happy)

I would like to tell you one thing.
Usually Chaetodontoplus personifer comes with Chaetodontplus duboulayi (variant) that has more orange color than Chaetodontplus duboulayi from GBR.

By: driftin

driftin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:31:25 +0000

Are there any places in the states that get these rarer fish in on a regular (or even semi-regular) basis? I know Old Town does occasionally, and I’ve seen some come through Live Aquaria Divers Den and Blue Zoo every now and then…