Digiman

To me white mac or white asfur are the same. Cos asfur and mac are 99% similar to each other.

Yes a most amazing variant of venustus.

A preview of wat is coming to RB next week. Two out of four of the fishes pictured(interruptus and carmabi) are obtainable at RB next week and they're currently seaching for the third one, P.Aya. Kudos to RB.

How about a white bar Asfur Angel!

In light of the showup of a so called ultra lemonpeel hybrid at reborn, the following pics (and i can find more) should all qualify more or less as "ultra hybrid".. And Lemon after seeing this myriad of photos u should understand why i'm not overly amazed by the fish. Nevertheless it's still a v beautiful fish and definitely would hav gotten it if the price wont so steep!

LCK also have 3 big joculator angels. Two pinecone fishes still around. Also hav one coradion altivelis left from the aussie shipment. Two Paraplesiops Poweri (they do not require low temp unlike western blue devil). And other misc fishes.. Thks Engineer for the ride out:)

Thanks. May be gg down to RB tmr, if u need pple to reserve rhomboid for u let me know.

Is the tank bred Maculosus white bar? Thanks.

Now this is one ultra hybrid!! G. melanospilos / G. semifasciatus hybrid:

U're going thru the evolutionary stage of reefing. U begin with 3ft corals dominated tank, den u'll grow bored and add more fishes, reef-safe fishes which can co-exists with your corals.. Den u'll slowly grow bored w everything and take an interest in the beautiful butterflies and angels and start to go into fishes more than corals.. Eventually u'll realise your tank is not big enough and u'll want to switch to a bigger tank where u can get all the butterflies and angels u wan.. Den after sometime u'll feel big tank is so much maintenance and wan to switch back to a smaller simple tank keeping a few fishes which u haven tried before with some simple corals. I'm prob at the second last stage now. That is like 'n' years ago.. It's rare in the states prob because it's harder to get healthy specimen there and tilefishes does not ship well. We are nearer to philippines so easier to see healthy tilefishes.

Anyway wat redsea fishes are u looking for? I'm looking for C.Paucifasciatus for years!

That's quite possible esp if the bag is small they'll dash around so much in the bag and die from the impact of the collision with the plastic bag. I always see Ah Beng will pack all the purple tile individually in small plastic bags and put the bags in the blue tub, then reefers will come and hold each bag up and shake and examine (ok i admit i was one of them who did that before) and the poor fish will start to dash and jump around in the bag. Not very good for timid fishes like tilefish.

Nope. I've seen it at least five to six times in AM, Iwarna, Ah Beng philippines shipment over the years. Each time only 2 to 3 pieces but occasionally can be up to 5 or 6 pieces. A lot of the flashing tiles(esp those at Ah Beng) will have slight buoyancy problem. Tilefishes like wormfishes are very skittish and they love to jump out of the tank. They hide too much to be seen often enough for hobbyist liking and as such not a very popular fish. Purple tile is the most common. My favourite is starcki tilefish, which i fall in love when i saw a pair Iwarna kept in their display tank many years ago and back then i was still new in the hobby and was very fascinated with the tilefish genus. However when i kept the fish myself, it hide too much! So much that i grew bored with it very soon and gave it away.

Is it? That's a surprise to me. Ok will check w him next time.

Ya for the blue tang and butterflies(corallivore species) that's wat they are doing cos difficult to breed. But sustainable aquatics is also breeding other species of marine fishes like clownfishes. Defintely a company to support if our LFS do bring in their livestocks in future.

Dun worry wont shoot u anymore . To each his own. As for myself i'm jux a rare fish nut so any fish as long as rare, no matter beautiful or ugly will trigger my interest. For example the true personifer (see pic below) may be far from the beauty of a full grown male false personifer, but becos it's so rare i'll defintely get it if there's a chance of it being brought in.

Yes it's so cool and wonderful to know that these amazing people in the states are making an effort to produce sustainable marine life which hopefully in future stop the need to collect these butterflies from the wild. They'll have other obligate corallivore butterflies coming up so stay tune.

Ya i know cos u actually like nox and flavicauda! But tat's good cos every fish needs to have its own appreciators.

How can u not like interruptus angels? It's the most beautiful and distinctive centropyge! There had been many shipments of interruptus before, once from AM and twice from LCK. But i believe none of those interruptus are still surviving in the hands of local reefers today!

The no reason is due to too many possible unidentified reasons like internal parasites, low temp, shipping stress etc etc.

U're not wrong. It's a minor fin rot problem which can be solved easily w melafix QT. Large interruptus are very prone to these external infections as well as other whole load of internal pathogenic infections.

Price is good but size is not good. Too many horror stories of big interruptus. Not worth the risks. How i wish RB can buy the fish in on their own and QT the fish to make sure it's doing well before offering it for sale. And for that as a consumer i dun mind paying a few hundred bucks more.

My pleasure. I'm still hoping and waiting for someone who is successful with a bandit angel to share his story with us esp temp and feeding issue.

Has the price increase? I tot it's around 9 blues for 3 to 4 inch black tang?

Conspic Angel, one of the most highly valued angel of the genus chaetodontoplus. With its inquisitive puppy-like behaviour and unique spectacled look, it is the favourite of all angels i've kept thus far. Only bad side of the fish is it's care required which fall somewhere in between a regal(difficult) and a goldflake(easy). Biggest obstacle is getting the fish to start feeding and maintain and gain its appetite gradually and this has proven rather difficult for my 5 inch conspic in the first two months. It'll occasionally go on hunger strike for a few days which is pretty normal for most big angels during the first few months of acclimation. At the beginning it does not tolerate excessive competition but will gradually hold its own once pass its acclimation period. I feed an algae(nori) and MP heavy diet once to twice a day. I've kept it w mainly softies and some LPS before. It's definitely not safe with fleshy LPS like open brain but is completely safe with softies and LPS of the euphyllias family. I dun keep SPS but conspic like other big angels should be safe with SPS. If u're willing to spend on a conspic i'm pretty sure u're more fish than coral lover like myself and will not fuss over occassional nippings on the corals. For people who intend to get a conspic in the near future, i think one of the greatest concern will be temperature issue. I'm still exploring this part myself. Website recommend 24 degree which is practically unachievable in our hot climate. My tank temp has gradually increase from 25 degree to 26.5 degree over a period of abt 7 months with no adverse sign from the fish. I'll prob increase the temp further to around 27 degree and let it stay there long term and thereafter only time will tell.