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Anyone can share what are the differences in grade A and B Picasso clowns? Following pics are wat grade and how to classify the grades? Tks.

Wa sounds like some conspiracy.. A conspic conspiracy!

Confirmed all 3 of my ventralis gone! Weisheng hope your ventralis are doing well. Henry sms and told me the ventralis in his shop also died a lot, and all those tat died develop the same symptoms of red marks on the side body tat i encountered. One reefer bought 20 pieces of ventralis and within the first few days 9 died with the red marks symptoms. Guess this fish survival rate is 40% or less.

Also 2 snooty wrasse at LCK.

LCK Two Pairs of Platinum Clown available. 900 per pair. Left only one Picasso i think. Yellow Assesor not many. ###### clown and dottybacks got plenty. Lots of sm size personifer, ml size scribbled, L size aussie flavirostris buttefly, L size chrysurus, and many PBT and assorted wrasses. Waiting for mcc and conspic..........

Looks like juvenile. c. rubriventralis also?

Yes i also got a pair of rhomboid from this batch and the female died after 1 day but lucky the male make it. Rhomboids if not handled well during shipping the whole batch can be v fragile. Plus it's an expensive fish, wat a costly risk. BTW, v nice tank and v nice chaoti.

How's your ventralis doing. Mine trio were doing fine for the past few days, they eat v well and took almost everything and were always out in the open. The male and one of the female had some minor open wound marks developed at one side of their body, those same marks u can see on a bandit angel which is slowly wasting away. This morning both of them died and the third one is now hiding for the whole day because of the lack of accompany, so i suspect she's not gg to survive pass today also. I dun think the higher temp (i decrease it to 26 since 2 days ago) is the full cause of the death, i should have QT the fish w melafix to prevent the external infection. Guess this is the last time i'm trying this fish after the only female left dies.

Found these info from RC and Web: No, it is a juvenile form of G.Takeuchii like wat Fuel said. G.Takeuchii is the biggest of the genus growing up to 14 inches. It is found only in Ogasawara Japan, a national park (also a world heritage site like Lord Howe) where all collections of animals are illegal and as such this fish is not available to the trade. G.Takeuchii can be found at scuba depth and is rather common in Ogasawara water. It is also a cool water fish like Wrought Iron butterflyfish. There were illegal poaching of the fish in the past and they were sold at crazy price of 5-figures. Personally i feel the adult form is reli ugly and with its cool water requirement and big size, it should be better off left in the ocean.

Ah yes!

Do u mean u have seen the fish b4 or the pic of the fish b4? Think u mean the latter, i've posted this fish in earlier posts, as for the name, i also want to know. Believe it is a hybrid though.

Thanks. Weird no cirrhilarbus this time.

3. Centropyge Debelius (Mauritius) 4. Paracheilinus Piscilineatus (Mauritius, so rare that they dun even have a proper picture) 5. Apolemichthys kingii (South Africa)

Recently a few of our LFSes started bringing in Mauritius and South Africa shipment and we get to see some of the common fishes from that area like gem tang and chrysogaster clowns being brought in. Thus this brings our attention to wat kind of rare fishes are there from Mauritius and SA that we may expect to see these future shipments? 1. Paracheilinus Attenuatus (Kenya) 2. cirrhilabrus sanguineus (Mauritius)

So cool!

May i know wat other wrasses are in the aussie shipment at LCK?

Should be for one. When platinum perc was first released in US it goes for USD700 a piece, but now and here will be cheaper hopefully.

Haha I'm only interested in the mccullochi, but due to the temperature requirement and most likely tag with a ridiculous high price, guess will pass. Platinum clown does not appeal to me. Feminus need thick sandbed and too many pple will fight for the fish, so i no chance. Looking forward to grade A picasso clowns in the ORA shipment instead.

Fish sold and collected. Thread closed.

Clownfish aficionado pls get yourself ready this week: Mccullochi Clown (will the price be higher than gem tang's?) Platinum Clown (highly anticipated ORA clowns) Feminus Wrasse (finally this fish is here!) So exciting!

Ah yes this one is darker, can seen more nox. So the ones earlier have more heraldi. Hybrids are so interesting.

Can see heraldi traits, but nox? Hard to say.

Excellent, Terryz think u're right on 1,3,4 and 7. 2) Synodus dermatogenys looks v close but not confident. 5) I found it, it's Zeus faber. 6) does not look like hamlet family, my guess is from some perchlet or anthias family. 8) is a mystery to me too.

And now we have the update on the whereabout of the US$30K pair. If the owner can open a public aquarium, i'll definitely visit when i go hk. And Lemon, pls stop saying these fish are ugly! Read more here: Personatus GBD

More (i need a marine oddball encyclopedia for their names!)..