This weekend our friend Koji Wada reopened his freshly renovated Blue Harbor fish store to the public. The Osaka, Japan based store is known throughout the world for its rare fishes, and this reopening did not disappoint. As much as we would have loved to traverse that 9,000 mile gap, I had to leave it [...]
This weekend our friend Koji Wada reopened his freshly renovated Blue Harbor fish store to the public. The Osaka, Japan based store is known throughout the world for its rare fishes, and this reopening did not disappoint. As much as we would have loved to traverse that 9,000 mile gap, I had to leave it to Tetsuo to capture these images, taken just before Blue Harbor opened to the public.
This photo clearly shows that Centropyge interrupta is the largest of the dwarf angels!
Here you can see why Koji and Blue Harbor have grown a reputation within the rare fish market. Held in these three segregated systems are: Cirrhilabrus earlei, Apolemichthys arcuatus, Bodianus sanguineus, Nemateleotris helfrichi (Cook Island var.), Liopropoma rubre, Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus, Holanthias fuscipinnis (pair), Chaetodon tinkeri (pair).
There are few places in the world where this many highly coveted fishes can be found under one roof.
While rare fish may be what Blue Harbor is known for, their corals are just as up to par. Testsuo tells us this ‘deepwater’ Acropora was glowing under a Supercool metal halide spotlight.
Congratulations again to Mr. Koji Wada on his successful store re-opening and a special thanks to Tetsuo Otake for snapping these pictures for GBD. Hopefully this gives you a taste of what it is like inside Blue Harbor.
