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possible. why not. he's not keeping any fishes. so it's ok. the bioload for one stingray is equivalent to many fish. and if you feed it well, no problem. abit unorthodox but it can work. of course i won't reccomend it. these kind of oddballs are best left in the ocean.

no stock of rabbitfish?? you're kidding right? haha. rabbitfishes are some of the most widely brought in fish! foxface is a rabbit fish, and there are many other species of siganus in our LFS now

now mine is joining yours in fish heaven! no more roseafascia in singapore anymore. i like to hunt for cheap and rare stuff that people don't normally pay attention to. my roseafascia was one of them. R.I.P!

scary leh. like a spider. adding it to your son's creepy crawlie collection? haha.

Reef safe with caution. Like dwarf angels. I kept 2 before all safe

Vanuatu Roseafascia is super expensive. If you're v v v lucky sometimes Philippine shipment will have. Coz Cebu has Roseafascia too. And v cheap. Few tens of dollars only

Yep this is Roseafascia. A female. Where did u get from? Vanuatu or Philippine shipment?

fairyw rasses are different. they don't hide in the day unless chased or targetted. so no reason why it will hide and MIA. this problem is common amongst wrasse keepers. but no one knows where they go or why they dissapear

i'm not sure. usually when they MIA like that it catches me by surprise. i will just suddenly realise it's not swimming around and then can't recall when was the last time i saw it. probably 2 days? maybe 3? that's why i say it's most probably gone. but it's ok.... part and parcel of reefing. you win some you lose some. just that lately i've been losing too many.

i really hope so... but i'm not positive about it. i've kept many fairy wrasses before and i've lost many of them like this. if they dont appear for 1-2 days, that's it. gone liao. i lost my rhomboid, marjorie and some other wrasses like this. fairy and flsaher wrasses are very sensitive. a little bit of problem they will hide and just don't appear ever again. even rescape or sometimes even water change can make them MIA for no reason! that's why i refrain from buying expensive fairy wrasses. nowadays i hunt for cheap and rare fairies. my roseafascia was one of them. super rare but i got it at a cheap price because it was an accidental shipment and was sold same price for female flame wrasse. philippine shipments sometimes have v rare fairy wrasse. roseafascia can get from philippine shipment too. lunatus fairy as well as melanomarginatus. and all these will but sold at cheap price due to the shipment location.

there are more people who have kept it before. but like i said, the only people whom i know who has kept before, is kueytoc and me. and now i know, you also! so if there are more ppl who has kept roseafascia before, please post here? it still remains a super rare fish in singapore and now no more i believe. sorry to hear about your roseafascia. for the record, the males are very aggressive when stable. i tkae photo using iphone 4. put against the glass, focus and take.

juz some random pics.

you can own one if you really want to. declivis butterflies are common and very hardy. they feed very easily and are bullet proof once stabalised. and they are not overly expensive. LCK and iwarna sells them for about 15-17 red notes. here's two more photos for you.

no. fairy wrasses do not hide during the day unless something is bothering it. my roseafascia is the biggest fairy in my tank and is the boss. no reason why it should hide. oh gosh i'm so sad. roseafascia is extraordinarily rare in Singapore. the only people who have ever kept roseafascia was kueytoc and me (as far as i know). mine was the last one here and now there's no more. i'm more sad now that my marginalis butterfly (also one left in singapore) died. here's the story on my roseafascia for those who are interested to hear. I obtained 2 females that were mixed up with some other fairy wrasses. No one saw it but i took notice and was so excited! the condition in which i obtained them was not very good, and one of them did not make it. no worries, because i still had one. the remaining one was also a tiny little female. i treasured it alot and it was my goal to grow it into a big male. over the months it grew, quite quickly i must say, into a small sub-male. i was pleased and i was so happy! i loved my rare roseafascia alot. it's almost impossible to obtain one here! fast forward many months later, almost a year, it has grown into a big 4 inch male. the tail has yet to fully develop yet though. and then it's gone. i just did not see it anymore. devastated. fairy wrasse and flasher wrasses have this sickening behavior of sometimes just vanishing without reason. has anyone experienced that before? or is it just me. i don't know why, but i miss my roseafascia already it was fun raising it into a male. but why did it have to go like that.

today is a sad day for me. I just realised that i've not seen my Rosefascia fairy wrasse. It's gone! it MIA for no reason. fairy wrasse have this sickening behaviour of just dissapearing one day without notice. and i've lost some of my most precious wrasses like this. But this time i lost my rarest one. Cirrhilabrus roseafascia. The only one left in Singapore. now there are none! i kept it from a 2 inch female to a 4 inch male and then it suddenly just dissapeared. whereever you are, R.I.P!

some of my fishes are extremely tamed. like my hooded fairy wrasse and my beauperryi's fairy wrasse. both of which allow me to catch them out of the water slowly using my hands. no need net. i think i posted a pic somewhere before bt i can't find it. my butterflies also allow me to touch them in water. but they are not ready to let me hand catch them yet.

nice, now got more smaller fishes! this your cardinal? Apogon compressus.

IMO, best is not to. don't disturb the peace of the tank. the achilles looks healthy and adding a sohal might ruin everything. and there's already alot of tangs in there. achilles very aggressive. sohal is even worse.

looks as though the colour changed abit huh?

praziquantel can get from iwarna.

These two super yellow ones... i really want a lot. i've only seen it once at CF 2 years ago and never again. it's apparently very common in the U.S but why are they so rare here, i don't know. i've been told that as they age, the yellow comes out more. but there are tons of juvenile specimens online with bright yellow patches, as well as tons of adults online with black patches. so this theory seems a little off. scott michael lists this yellow one, as a subgenus, C. declivis declivis. so. two subgenus, two different colours. I WANT THE YELLOW ONE! - end of rant.

just ranting, don't mind me. this two pictures are of my declivis butterflies. the first picture is my current one, the second picture was the one in my old tank before i decomm. as you can see, the backs are very black and there's hardly any yellow on it. Scott michael's book list it as C. declivis wilderi, a subgenus which has the black colouration predominantly.

anyway just sharing my experience with FW dip everyone got their own way but i feel 6-8 mins is best. and for me i dont dechlorinate and match ph, but it's always best to do so.

yep. normal fishes should be ok but those expensive ones that require cooler water must be taken into consideration.