Need help finding some fish

[Fish Finder]

I have been looking for these fish for some time now with no luck. I hope someone here can help me out in finding someone that sells or can get these fish for me. The fish i am looking for are:

Spanish Flag (Gonioplectus Hispanus)

Bicolor Basselet (Lipogramma Klayi)

Threeline Basslet (Lipogramma Trilineata)

Yellowheaded Hulafish (Trachinops Noarlungae)

Southern Hulafish (Trachinops Caudimaculatus)

 

[IconicAquariums]

Good luck on the first 3. They are all deepwater Caribbean fish and hardly collected. A few of them make it to Japan from one collector, but they are very expensive. I recall Scott Michael having L. klayi, but it perished after a few days and it was over $1,000 IIRC.

Live Aquaria just had Trachinops last week. Try emailing them - but they need cooler water longterm like most of the fish from Western Australia and seem to be seasonal.

 

[Fish Finder]

The one i want the most is the Spanish Flag (Gonioplectus Hispanus). If i can find one i will most likely buy it. As for the trachinops thanks for the head's up i will try to email them. I want to keep them in my cool water tank with my jap pineapple fish

Where in NY are you from I am in Lindenhurst LI

 

[IconicAquariums]

The Monocentris would probably eat the Trachinops. All the ones I've ever seen have been 1.5-2" - the size of a shrimp goby. You'd be much better off with a Morwong or a Western Blue Devil. You could probably do Boxfish too, but they need 65-68F long term. Cherry Anthias would also work but they are expensive. Atlantis Marine World has a shoal of females in the 22,000g reef.

I've seen a couple of Gonioplectrus years ago but they are very infrequent. I would expect them to sell for $1,800-2,500, with the smaller ones being most expensive. They are actually found in shallower water(150-250ft) in NC off the coast, but there is no collecting there. I can't imagine they could be collected with any predictability based on their secretive nature.