K.C. Saltwater Fish & Inverts

A little more local article on the ban of marine fish collection in Hawaii. https://www.mauinews.com//advocates-celebrate-aquarium-fi/

As someone who spend many years diving in Hawaii both on Oahu and the Big Island and working with exporters and the collectors, this is a huge blow to your hobby. I know the drumbeat has been all about the environment, be it live rock collection ( which most hobbyists do not understand) and aqua culture, which has advanced to a fantastic degree, Hawaii has been the most monitored and regulated fisheries in the world! Unfortunately, the environmentalists along with deep pocket silent partners have taken control of this issue. Look for Yellow Tang prices and other endemic fish to skyrocket until the supply is depleted.

Here’s a great video of clownfish in wild. Three species at least in an area together. Very unusual.

New shipment of "Wild" Indonesian mushrooms, Neon Green, Blue and Striped. Large live rock bases, NOT frags. Multiple polyps on each rock and very good polyp sizes. Photos to follow. 75 to 175 each. also Elephant Ear and Amplexidiscus Giant Mushrooms. Very Rare!!

Some pics of the new live rock! Looks pretty nice

Having been back in marine livestock for a full year now, I have learned how most current hobbyist feel about "live rock". With most now using dead, calcified rock or man made. Most are concerned with introducing unwanted critters and they worry about environmental issues. As an old school importer, I owned one of the largest companies in Florida that collected live rock for the trade in the early 80's. We shipped containers of live rock all around the world and US, everyone ...wanted it and filled their reef tanks with it. Since many current hobbyists were not back then, most don't know that almost NONE of the rock we collected was done so from the "reef". That's not where live rock is found! Whether it's Samoa,where I also worked for a couple of summers, or Tonga,where I worked trying to setup a new operation there,( it didn't happen ) or Florida, most of the rock is found near the shore and rubble zones, NOT the reef. Why? It would be too hard to collect in deep water, and there is just not that much on the reef that's easy to collect. In Tonga, beautiful live rock was found in knee deep water along the shore, a hundred yards from the first reef drop. Also found there were tons of mushroom rocks of every kind along with sand stars and other inverts. In Samoa, beautiful mushrooms, gonipora and other corals were many times found in almost zero visibility water near the shores, along with sharks! I hated going there for the day. My point? We have a very small amount of "live rock" coming from Fiji this week. It started as the man made rock Walt Smith makes there, then dropped into the ocean to cure. Most has been there 2-5 years and after this load, that's it! I don't think the Fiji government is going to sanction that again. In the old days I would have brought in a ton of it. Now just a few hundred pounds will come. We will post some pics of it later in the week. It will probably be about 8-9Lb.

Just wanted to show off some of our newer corals! These guys are BIG and getting BIGGER. They’ve been doing well in our tanks for a few weeks now so they should settle into their new homes nicely. Come check ‘em out today! (price list at the end is (mostly) in order of the photos)

My phone is not great but short clips of some very nice corals and mushrooms in stock now!

Sorry we have not posted pics of inventory and current specials. We are still winding down the pond business and getting ready for fall. That being said, we have alot of healthy mature sized corals, mushrooms and zooanthids along with many stunning healthy designer clownfish and select wild fish. I also have been working on a separate anemone tank which has Ritteri, Sebae, green bulb and a few carpets. I will have more coming in the next week or so. More to follow!! Remember we carry a wide variety of frozen foods from LRS and Hikari Ocean Nutrition and SFBB

One of my favorite mushrooms; the Giant Cup, Amplexidiscus sp. You will see these on the reef at rhe top of a ridge, spread wide! This onw will probably get to 12 easily. It makes a great statement focal point!

New corals in stock and starting to open this morning. These are NOT frags! Large pieces 5 plus in cubes.

Indo Coral shipment coming today. This may be one of the last due to potential CITIES issues and possible Corona Virus lockdown there.

Great well conditioned marine fish on SALE!!! All Clowns @ up to 30% off!! Includes Darwin, Picasso, Platinum, True Percs, Lightning Maroon, Pair Maroon Clown Trigger Lrg 175.00! Bangaii Cardinals 16.00... Polylepis Butterfly 65.00 These are the butterfly to keep!!! I.O. True Zoster Butterfly 75.00 Pajama Cardinals Lrg 9.00 Flame Hawk 50.00 Firefish Med. 7.00 Purple Firefish Lrg 30.00 Lemonpeel Angel 48.00 Green Chromis 5.00 And More in Stock!! All our fish are held and are eating LRS, Hikari, O.N. and other frozen foods!!!!

My little Nano tank is doing well. True percula, helfrichs firefish and not seen; grisegerri goby and a yellow rose goby w partner

Livestock sale starting tomorrow! Be watching. Also lots of great frozen food brands in stock at great prices!!

More Ocean Nutrition food in stock! The trigger cubes are great for all fish types. All our fish love them chopped up!!

New shipment of LRS frozen foods!! Also many Hikari frozen items in stock!!!

Kishna took some good pics today of some of the new arrivals.

New fish In stock. We do not sell fish without first holding them for at least two weeks to insure health and that they are eating very well!!! No selling out of the box here! True Darwin Ocelleris Clowns Polyepis Butterflies ( one of my favorites ) True Zoster Butterfly Indian Ocean... Flagtail goby Wheeler Goby Yellow Watchman Helfrichi Firefish ( rare ) Red Antenna Goby Tomini Tang Harlequin Tusk Lemonpeel Angel and a few assorted Red mushrooms incluing Atomic Red We also have many more clowns and other fish in stock from previous orders. message for complete list. And we have some of the best prices on frozen food from Hikari, SSBB and LRS. I also did not post that I brought in about 100lb of "real" live rock from Indonesia a few weeks back. Very hard to get and very pricey but call me old school, I just don't like the man made stuff, esp not for my tanks. most pieces are going to run 50-100 each!! They are between 5-10+ lbs.

Our unbelievably busy pond season has put the marine on the back burner unfortunately. Shipment tomorrow and now that imports are opening a bit i will be bringing in more selected items.