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warrrreagl · 07-01-2007, 04:26 AM

What a great offer, and thank you. Grancey and I used to be heavily involved in saltwater tanks, but we stopped about 15 years ago. So all I have are memories....

But I do have a question to see if you've ever heard of a type of fish we had. There was a terrific guy who owned a fish store near us who guided us into making the magnificent switch from fresh to saltwater. One day we were browsing his tanks and Grancey found a particular juvenile angel that she fell in love with and I asked him to tell us about it. He just grinned ear to ear and said, "Ah, she has EXCELLENT taste."

As it turns out, it was a juvenile Arabian Asfur Angel. According to him, there were only five of them privately owned in the United States at that time, and Michael Jackson had two of them. Our guy had acquired them by accident as one of his suppliers who regularly dives the Red Sea had mislabeled two juveniles and sent them to him. The fish store guy obviously kept one of them and he put the other one up for sale (which we bought immediately). I think we paid $189 for it, but he told us that a fully mature one would be worth at least $1000 and this was back in the late 80's.

That fish was the absolute showpiece of our main tank. Gorgeous, gorgeous fish, and we really enjoyed watching him change colors as he matured. I remember once I asked my older brother to feed my fish while we were out of tonw and he flatly refused, saying there was no way he was going to be responsible for a $5000 fish.

Have you ever heard of one or seen one? If we can get to the boxes that have the old photos, I'll scan one so you can see our little guy. Grancey named him "Aubrey," by the way. He was Auburey Arabian Asfur Angel.

07-01-2007, 04:26 AM	#2 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	What a great offer, and thank you. Grancey and I used to be heavily involved in saltwater tanks, but we stopped about 15 years ago. So all I have are memories.... But I do have a question to see if you've ever heard of a type of fish we had. There was a terrific guy who owned a fish store near us who guided us into making the magnificent switch from fresh to saltwater. One day we were browsing his tanks and Grancey found a particular juvenile angel that she fell in love with and I asked him to tell us about it. He just grinned ear to ear and said, "Ah, she has EXCELLENT taste." As it turns out, it was a juvenile Arabian Asfur Angel. According to him, there were only five of them privately owned in the United States at that time, and Michael Jackson had two of them. Our guy had acquired them by accident as one of his suppliers who regularly dives the Red Sea had mislabeled two juveniles and sent them to him. The fish store guy obviously kept one of them and he put the other one up for sale (which we bought immediately). I think we paid $189 for it, but he told us that a fully mature one would be worth at least $1000 and this was back in the late 80's. That fish was the absolute showpiece of our main tank. Gorgeous, gorgeous fish, and we really enjoyed watching him change colors as he matured. I remember once I asked my older brother to feed my fish while we were out of tonw and he flatly refused, saying there was no way he was going to be responsible for a $5000 fish. Have you ever heard of one or seen one? If we can get to the boxes that have the old photos, I'll scan one so you can see our little guy. Grancey named him "Aubrey," by the way. He was Auburey Arabian Asfur Angel. __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed. Last edited by warrrreagl; 07-03-2007 at 07:35 AM..