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C. balteatus. males and females available at CF. singapore is lucky to get so many female specimens of C. balteatus from both iwarna and CF's marshall island/hawaii supply chain. female balteatus and balteatus in general are quite uncommon in other countries. especially the females.

rhomboid fairy wrasse griffith's angel 4x captive bred katen brittain's latezonatus clownfish (full bar) pics shown are fishes still inside the QT room. they have been moved to the outside tanks now

Chaetodon mitratus @ cf. 2 specimens. gorgeous, very healthy and the size is just right. not too big and not too small. 25 red notes.

well done although it only ate 2

Sry it's a typo. Stupid iPhone. But I forgot what I meant to type

CF 2 mitratus butterflies Many resplendent anthias Cream Angels Evansi anthias Flavipectoralis Angels Mccosker flasher Girdled wrasse pairs Rhomboid wrasse pairs Red tail tamarin wrasse Hawaiian endemic duperry moon wrasse 4x juvenile captive full barred latezonatus clowns Griffiths angel Goldflake angel Flame wrasse Potters angel Helfrichi firefish Flame angel Yellow tang LCK Huge hooded wrasse all males Rhomboid at only 15 red notes black tang mccosker flasher wrasse royal gramma flame hawk argi angel yellow tang

this one was really sad. it made me cry at the end.

Iwarna Africa shipment stocklist Angels African flameback (Centropyge acanthops) Earspot angels (Pomacanthus chrysurus) Africanus angels (Holacanthus africanus) [TINY BLUE JUVENILES/SUB ADULTS!] Butterflies Somali butterflyfish (Chaetodon leucopleura) Robustus butterflyfish (Chaetodon robustus) Tangs Powder blue tang (Acanthurus leucosternon) Monrovae tang (Acanthurus monrovae) Wrasses Mccosker's flasher wrasse (M & F) (Paracheilinus mccoskeri) Yellow bellied twist wrasse (Juveniles) (Anampses twistii) Radiant wrasse (Halichoeres iridis) Sixline wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia) Splendid leopard wrasse (Macropharyngodon bipartitus) Burberry hogfish (Bodianus speciosus) Anthias Blue-eyed anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) Evan's anthias (Pseudanthias evansi) Carberyyi anthias (Nemanthias carberyi) Misc Gumdrop goby African pufferfish Midas blenny dunno what yellow damsel dunno what chromis

Iwarna Africa stocklist to be confirmed later

Busy in the afternoon. Give me 1 hr. I'll complete the list at night and send u a pm

Some things were deemed impossible years ago like SPS. But that's because parameters could not be met then. But now they can due to equipment. Same for moorish idol, regal angels and bicolor angel. These fishes years ago were almost impossible to keep, but now are moderately difficult due to new kinds of food offered and new collection techniques. But what about obligate coral feeding butterflies? There's no fancy equipment to make them survive. There's no food that can sustain them of yet. And they are difficult to feed in the first place. These fishes will forever be impossible no matter how many years we advance in this hobby. Unless someone formulate a new food or manage to trace their metabolism and find what's the vital component missing in their diet that we can articfially supplement. Until then its impossible with only sporadic success known as luck. But even then causlty rate still high. So know how to differentiate the impossible possible, and the impossible impossible. Anyway to stay on track, Iwarna Africa shipment tomorrow morning

Due to shorTage of power plugs, he will Decom and upgrade to my sump tank 2x1x1 refugium space. I cleared that area and Now it's empty for him to put his fish this time better for him since bigger and have better circulation and its directly connected to my tank. No need do WC

a pair of tinkeri's butterlyfish.

i agree it's not easy to learn ALL the fishes. but must learn the impossible to keep one.

anyway back on track, iwarna have africa shipment this friday timing and stocklist to be confirmed!

relax bro. you will never be able to prevent the collection. but you can certainly reduce the importing of them to as low as we possibly can. this is how it works. the collectors will catch all the different fish species (including obligate coralivores) and list them out in a stocklist. this stocklist will be sent to the LFS as an invoice. The lfs will order the fishes they want from that said invoice, and wether or not they order the obligate coralivores, it does not matter. here's a couple of scenariors. 1) the LFS did not order them, and so they will not come. this is good. but this still does not stop the capture of the fish. 2) the LFS did not order them, but they still come anyway. the supplier just put them in the fish shipment. i've placed many orders for different LFS before and i understand how the importation work. and the above 2 scenarios i've seen many times. we can only play our part by not buying them and hope that over the years, the collection will stop. but to be honest, it all boils down to ignorance. ignorant divers who don't know that these fishes are impossible to keep, and ignorant reefers who don't know that these fishes are impossible to keep. it's up to us ultimately, as the consumer, who have proper education and comprehension to learn and read up on not to buy this fish. it is not the philippine and indonesian collectors fault because most of them are uneducated and cant comprehand english. so expecting them to learn this on the internet or books is not going to work. instead, they will stop catching from experience if the fishes cannot sell. this is where the hobbyist come in. butterflies are always the unpopular bunch.and if ever they are going to be bought, sadly, i've seen hundreds of reefers jump at the opportunity to buy an ornate butterflyfish when it is deemed impossible. yet, the longnose butterflyfish which is so so easy to keep and reef safe, are always left to die because ppl they are not reef safe and difficult to keep. the internet is full of resources but the truth is, many people simply too lazy to research before they buy. then they bring the fish home, and then all the complaints start streaming out. and also global warming will probably kill these fishes faster. at the rate at which our acropora corals are dying, these obligate coralivores will die along with the acropora. and FYI to any hobbyist reading this. i'm sure some of you may say "oh, so and so manage to get his feeding on pellets and survive 2 months" well just a reminder. for every one obligate coralivore that survive, hundreds more die. you think it's easy and it's luck but it's not. when you go down into the behaviour and the overall physical adaptation of these species then you will understand that it's impossible. anyway if it's any consolation, these obligate coral eating butterflies are generally unpopular in the states and japan where people do research before buying. it's only in asian countries that people don't do research and generally buy for fun. perhaps because it's so cheap here that people take forgranted. and these butterflies are very abundant and common in the wild. ok sorry for the off topic. cheers and if i offended anyone in my speech, well don't be. i'm not targeting any reefers and if anyone here is guilty of buying them before, well, they died right? so learn from there and don't buy them anymore

its a yellow tubeworm. yellow tubeworms are not rare. yellow coco worms are rare. gorgeous tank btw

juvenile flames will develop the bars at a later stage. the ones we posted are aberrant flames with very light coloured bars. i think these are xanthic morphs which might revert back to normal. but we're not quite sure. yes i do agree they look like post-meta flame angel juveniles.

in microbiology, bacteria do not suffocate... bacteria cannot breathe in the literal sense.. dirt and silt accumulate due to low flow. and by removing gravel too quickly, the dirt and silt will cause the tank to be cloudy. if the system is healthy and stable, this cloudy effect will only cause temporary blurriness and will have no effect on bacteria or anything. perhaps only an increase in nitrates and phosphates which have been accumulating in the dirt. and bacteria that convert nitrogenous waste to harmless nitrogen gas are anaerobic. this means they live in conditions with no oxygen. how can they suffocate if they don't use oxygen? just my humble opinion.

not true. plankton almost does not exist or in too little amount to make significant differences in our enclosed tank system. our water is too sterile. and cloudy water is not dead plankton. plankton is microscopic and consist of many classes. phytoplankton, zooplankton, etc.

yup most of the time they do have the yellow fin at the bottom.