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Paracheilinus Sp. in Bali Is it a hybrid of filamentosus and flavianalis>

Somemore... Wrought Iron Butterfly New Dr Seuss fish New phoebe basslet

Some new fishes in Japan Rusty flame Red ruby dragonet Rare Lonchurus jawfish

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After a long hiatus, finally baby wrought irons!!! I have seen too many baby interruptus recently and now seeing wrought iron juveniles makes me more excited!!

Caribbean Schultzea Beta Hope to see this fish come in one day!

Here is another parapercis in a Japanese LFS. This fish is labelled Parapercis sp 2 by the LFS. There is a parapercis that i always could not ID. It's very common in our indo shipment and i see it always at one of the LFS here. Dejong Marine has it before and they also labelled it as Parapercis sp. Here is a pic of the fish: Joe, do you think the above is P.Schauinslandi?

Parapercis is extremely difficult to ID. The pics on fishbase and on the net all look very very similar. I always give up trying to ID parapercis. There is no other clearer pic i can find of that parapercis. Here is another pic of another parapercis sp in a QT. Here is another parapercis sp i posted before. It belongs to another japanese reefer. It looks to be the same species as the one above.

April 2013 Deepwater Okinawa fish collection (100 to 200m) Plectranthias sp. (V expensive perchlet selling at around 3k in Japan) Chaetodon Guentheri (a shallow butterfly that can also be found at depth over 100m) Odontanthias Borbonius (huge and gorgeous but usually does not survive the decompression maladies) Parapercis sp. (Suspected to be the rare parapercis katoi) Bodianus Leucostictus (v rare bodianus) Choerodon Robustus Cirrhilabrus Lanceolatus (absolutely gorgeous!!) Xanthichthys Lineopunctatus (very rare triggerfish, unavailable to the market outside of Japan)

And here is a hybrid takeuchii x semifasciatus

Huge Genicanthus takeuchii in the wild Here is a juvenile

Osopsaron formosensis Beautiful nano flathead goby (Max size 5cm) in Japan and Taiwan. However not available in the aquarium trade.

Pseudochromis Luteus Extremely rare dottyback found in the waters of Japan (Okinawa), Taiwan (Southern coasts) and the philippines (Batanes Islands). For years Dr Tanaka has been trying to obtain this dottyback in Japan without any success. Males Females (Equally amazing!)

3.5cm poliourus angel in HK

Btw, this is my lonchurus. Super easy to feed. However now it has a bit of thorn fins as it squabbled with my spanish flag over a new den.

The ones LADD and you have obtained are Lonchurus and its common name is moustache jawfish and not sailfin jawfish. Adeljian wasn't saying they are not lonchurus, he was just pointing out the erroneous common name given to lonchurus. It should be moustache jawfish and not sailfin jawfish. Sailfin jawfish is the common name for another species, Fenmutis, which is not yet collected for the hobby. So there is no confusion here in the species identification but rather it is an error made in the use of the common names in the reefbuilder articles that Adeljian was trying to point out. That is why i dislike the use common names when it comes to fishes! Me too am surprised that lonchurus is so poorly mentioned in literature. I know they are found in deeper water but i want to know exactly how deep they are. Fishbase did not state the depth range of this fish and i am curious are they just deep as in about 100+ ft or are they found very deep like the lipogrammas. They are expensive when it comes to jawfish and i would like to know if their rarity and high price is due to the depth at which they are found in and perhaps requires the use of rebreather to collect? I have one in my tank now which has been with me for over 6 months. Super hardy jawfish and is one of the most interesting fish to watch in my tank!

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Cook island Scotts. Most beautiful variant of all Scotts! Rare deepwater moustache jawfish Beautiful Earlei fairy pair in Japan Cebu Flabelligobius sp. in Japan. This fish is gettting harder to find.

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100 and big size

Wow!! Misbar in bandit is very rare.

Lagoon Okinawa described the fish as having eyes slightly bigger than the normal selenanthias analis and as such they labelled it as sp. However they aren't sure if the bigger eyes is due to individual fish difference or if it is a different species. Juvenile Analis is also virtually unknown, so only time will tell if the fish develop into an Analis or something different. On a side note, according to fishbase, there are only two other species in the same genus selenanthias, Myersti and Barroi, and both have no pics on the net. S.Myersti is found in the south china sea while S.Barroi in coral sea.

My take: A juvenile Selenanthias Analis

Which one would you choose?

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