Rare Black Ear Candy Hogfish is First One In USA
JEREMY GAY
3 DAYS AGO
A single specimen of a rare deepwater hogfish has arrived in America for the first time. Named the Black Ear Candy Hogfish, Bodianus tanyokidus comes from the Indo-West Pacific, Comoro Islands, and Mauritius to southern Japan, and can be found off the Ryukyu islands, Japan, at 328’-656’/100-200m depth.
The featured fish was collected in Taiwan and imported by high-end fish retailer Unique Fins. The only other one that we know of was procured for public display by the Okinawa Churaumi public aquarium in Japan, the news of which we covered in August 2020. Bodianus tanyokidus can be found at depths ranging from 131’-656’/40-200m, with Unique Fins’ fish being collected just shy of 328’/100m depth. Those depths can be as cool as 68F/20C, although Unique has brought theirs up to 73F/22.8C and it’s said to be doing well, on a diet of frozen krill.
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A single specimen of a rare deepwater hogfish has arrived in America for the first time. Named the Black Ear Candy Hogfish, Bodianus tanyokidus comes from the Indo-West Pacific, Comoro Islands…
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