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me too. so far all of tanaka's scott fairy got show some degree of colour loss, but this cook island one seems to be very colourful still!

urgh i need my anti-clown shot. too much clowns, too little other fish. going...to...faint...

did you quarantine your fish? so many big angels, if no quarantine, no copper, then very likely can be disease. gill flukes or something perhaps? kill very quickly.

tanaka's awesome cook island scott's! the colour is just omg.

I wish i had two! but i'm happy with just one.

Chaetodon mitratus in the wild. so beautiful!

Two rather rare and uncommon fish. Chaetodon xanthocephalus and Amphiprion nigripes.

huge show size blueface.

cry babies. nice!

wah nice! water feature?

Ahbeng has quite a few Pseudochromis dilectus. A rather uncommon, but big and very aggressive dottyback.

this is one angel you will never be able to see. Only a few pictures has been taken by Koji Wada and it's a deepwater angel found in Japan and South China Seas. But who knows? one day in the near future we might be able to see one being collected, but sure to be sold at obscenely high prices. or might not even be sold and kept as personal collection by the collector.

another blackfoot lion at LADD

chaetodontoplus niger is very very rare. only a few specimens have ever been seen and the first specimen was caught accidently by trawling. it's black but it's one of the nicest angels in this genus. IMO.

holy cow the asfur is gorgeoussssss

not true. there are MANY hardy and beautiful butterflies that you can keep. these do not have specialised diets so you can feed them frozen food/ pellets. I'll list down all the butterflies that are common, and can be kept in the home aquaria. some are more difficult than others. i'll list down scientific name, common name, and hardiness level. Do note that although some can be very easy, easy means in terms of feeding and overall adaptability to our tanks. butterflies are very disease prone and can succumb to disease very easily. so no matter how easy they might be, they can die just as easily. They must be provided with good water quality, liverocks and stable water. otherwise, they will get stressed very easily Chaetodon burgessi (Burgess butterflyfish) - Very easy Chaetodon tinkeri (Tinker's butterflyfish) - Very easy Chaetodon mitratus (Mitratus butterflyfish) - Very easy Chaetodon declivis (Declivis butterflyfish) - Very easy Chelmon marginalis (Marginalis butterflyfish) - Easy Chelmon rostratus (Copperband butterflyfish) - Difficult Forcipiger flavissimus (Yellow longnose butterflyfish) - Very easy Forcipiger longirostris (Yellow Long-longnosed butterflyfish) - Difficult Chaetodon semeion (Dotted/Semeion butterflyfish) - Medium Chaetodon ephippium (Sddled-back butterflyfish) - Easy Chaetodon lunula (Raccoon butterflyfish) - Easy Chaetodon semilarvatus (Golden butterflyfish) - Medium Chaetodon auriga (Threadfin butterflyfish) - Very easy Chaetodon xanthurus (Pearlscale butterflyfish) - Easy Hemitaurichthys polyepis (Pyramid butterflyfish) - Very easy Hemitaurichthys zoster (Black pyramid butterflyfish) - Very easy Heniochus sp. (All the bannerfishes) - Medium Chaetodon fremblii (Bluestriped butterflyfish) - Medium Chaetodon miliaris (Lemon butterflyfish) - Very easy Prognathodes aya (Banks butterflyfish) - Medium Prognathodes marcellae (Marcell's butterflyfish) - Medium the above are some of the commonly/less commonly/rarely offered species that are suitable for our home aquarium. of course there are more, but there's no need to type all. you can search on your own too if you like. AVOID THESE AT ALL COST. Chaetodon ornatissimus (Ornate butterflyfish) Chaetodon lunulatus (Red fin butterflyfish) Chaetodon trifasciatus (Melon butterflyfish) Chaetodon trifascialis (Chevroned butterflyfish) Chaetodon meyeri (Scrawled butterflyfish) Chaetodon baronessa (Triangular butterflyfish) Chaetodon plebeius (Blue-spot butterflyfish) Chaetodon speculum (Mirror butterflyfish) Chaetodon bennetti (Bennet's butterflyfish) there are more too. the list i've provided is not even close to half of all butterflyfish species in the world. these are just some commonly offered ones that you might come across in LFS. maybe a little bit confusing and hard to read, but this is a very comprehensive beginner's list to butterflyfish and you might want to stick to it if you intend to keep them. any other questions can just post and i'll help. butterflies are often seen as difficult and touchy but as you can see, many are very hardy when provided the right care! this is a big misunderstanding that should be cleared.

Cirrhilabrus lubbocki has a few forms. This is the rarest of the three forms, and it looks the most different. lubbock's fairy wrasse are either purple, magenta or in this case, white. the white form is the rarest amongst all forms, but in this case "rare" does not mean hard to find. It simply means it's the most scarce amongst all three variants. The white form of Lubbock's fairy is sporadically avaialble from the Philippines.

The resulting hybrid will look like this. The tail is a partial cross, showing characteristics of a lunated and lanceolated tail. The offspring looks uglier than either of the parent species.

Not all hybrids are naturally beautiful. Well, some are, like in the case of the Multibar X Venustus angel hybrid. Both parent species are nice, but when hybridized, the resulting progeny was an EXQUISITE WORK OF ART. Back to my initial sentence. Not all hybrids are beautiful. One good example is the hybrid between the crescent tail wrasse and the pintail wrasse. Cirrhilabrus lunatus X Cirrhilabrus cf lanceolatus (Yet to be described). What will the offspring look like of these two beautiful fishes?

So many pictures posted on beautiful male Cirrhilabrus lanceolatus with beautiful emerald green fins. but here's something rarer. the FEMALE lanceolatus. uglier, duller, but lesser seen.

When will this fairy wrasse make big news again? Recently one was collected by BH, but no news of it ever since. Cirrhilabrus katoi. The Kato's fairy wrasse.

edited your symbolic to symbiotic. these two words have very different meanings. yah those symbiotic ones too difficult. like the zebra crab.

BIG WLECOME BACK MY FRIENDS

not impossible to get the yellow wrasse out. but sand digging wrasses are some of the hardest to catch. if it's greedy enough, it will enter the betta box and can be caught easily as per any other greedy fish.

Leander plumosus CF occasionally have. i have 4 but all MIA after few months. to iskay, Phyllognathia ceratophthalma is the bongo shrimp and is brought in by Henry@ML. but terryz bought it.. Periclimenes colemani saw one before at CF but they are symbiotic with the fire urchin and i don't know if they can survive without it. Cinetorhynchus reticulatus i think is a kind of saron shrimp and CF might have brought it before. Saron shrimps are not reef safe. Tozeuma kimberi is a whip shrimp that lives on gorgonians. difficult to keep without the host if i'm not wrong. CF brought in other species/genus of these kinds of shrimps before.