$5000 Lightening Maroon Clownfish

[Sikryd]

Awesome new morph!

 

 

 

[Coral Hind]

Wow, now that is cool!

[Noobalicious]

was that writeup released today?

 

wonder if BZA would do an April fools joke.....

[Chad]

haha, I dont know, let me go do a Topeka search on it...

[zygote2k]

Here's the original article-

 

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

[Charlie]

Even if it's an April Fools joke, it's still pretty cool.

[Sikryd]

Even if it's an April Fools joke, it's still pretty cool.

 

 

Its not an april fools. Just a cool new clown.

[El Camaron]

that is a really cool pattern, these things are going to be very expensive if they do breed in captivity.

[hypertech]

I don't think the price was $5000, but I'm pretty sure I know where it went. Although he hasn't come straight out and said it, Matt Pederson posted this link to TCMAS and also sold some high dollar fish in a real hurry last week to buy a new fish.

 

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

[BrendanG]

as cool as it is...

 

I'm sure his bite is shocking!

 

(I couldn't resist)

[L8 2 RISE]

hmmm... is this a juvi or near juvi? Will the white turn to gold like it does with the other ones? If so, that would be even cooler!!

[lanman]

Awesome fish, and a great story of sustainable collection.

 

bob

[Jon Lazar]

I don't think the price was $5000, but I'm pretty sure I know where it went. Although he hasn't come straight out and said it, Matt Pederson posted this link to TCMAS and also sold some high dollar fish in a real hurry last week to buy a new fish.

 

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

 

Further down in this blog he does say that he's the new owner. It will be interesting to see how this pattern is expressed in the future offspring.

[Ret_Talbot]

Hey, Guys. My name is Ret Talbot, and I am a writer and photographer who frequently reports on the hobby and the trade in general. The picture at the top of this thread is a picture I snapped of this PNG lightning maroon clownfish when I was in Papua New Guinea last month. It is an amazing fish for sure! I was in PNG researching a story on the SEASMART Program (should show up in the May/April issue of CORAL Magazine), and I have been following the fish from the reef to Matt Pedersen's aquarium. This is a cool story in many ways, as it was a sustainably collected fish, the fisher was well compensated and the retailer who handled the sale did so in a manner that put the hobby before the bottom line. This will be a good story to follow, and you can do so (as others have said) on Matt's blog for the so-called "The Lightning Project":

 

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

 

Regarding the price, offers well in excess of $5000 were made. Reefbuilders reported that the price of the fish when it was originally listed in Blue Zoo Aquatics' Collector's Choice store was $2500. The actual price has, to the best of my knowledge, not been publicly disclosed. For more on the background of this fish, check out the lengthy article published by Blue Zoo that traces the fish from the reef:

 

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

 

You may also like to see the shorter article at the SEASMART website:

 

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

 

Finally, for a little background on PNG and SEASMART, you can look at the blog from my trip, which is published here:

 

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

 

Oh yea, and here's one more picture I snapped of the guy while still in PNG. :-)

 

Enjoy!

 

[treesprite]

I want one of those!

[gmubeach]

Me too I'd name him 1000$ scales!