yikai

ugly chromis found only in hawaii. Chromis verater

a rare damsel from Brazil Stegastes rocasensis

because it was in a dark tank, you could not see the blue. beauperryi wrasse has a very blue belly. actually just now could have seen it already mah. in the plastic bag, when the lights were brighter

an updated picture of the venustus multibar hybrid. it's still alive!

Beauperryi's fairy wrasse.

i know a reefer with over 30 flavoguttatus and almost 20 princess anthias. all doing very well. IMO, they are easy to feed, but are not easily weaned onto pellets. so frozen food is still the way to go for them and need many frequent feedings. not good for SPS tank.

LCK still have australian hooded wrasse, condei fairy wrasse, laboutei wrasse and pylei wrasse from previous shipments. i did not really take a look at the sri lanka shipment, but saw ALOT of red scooter blennies and female blue eye anthias.

I am super fortunate to chance upon a rare fairy wrasse today. Cirrhilabrus beauperryi, the beauperry's fairy wrasse. It is endemic to solomon islands and Papua new guinea. it is a close relative of the fine spotted or vila wrasse, but was identified as a new species in 2008 by allen, drew and barber. Will update with pictures later. here's what it looks like. pictures from a book. it looks like vila with numerous spots and the top part of the body is greenish. when flashing, the green turns yellow and blue body turns pink.

no worries bro. dilute is ok. flavoguttatus may fight amongst themselves but if the tank is big, should not be a problem. anthias usually will not kill each other unless all are males. flavoguttatus anthais that come in are usually quite small, meaning they are all female. under normal circumstances, they should not fight. IMO if you want peaceful and tranquil environment, bartletts are not ideal. i'm sure you've heard how aggressive bartletts can be. and probably seen it for yourself too. even if they dont kill each other, they will chase and make the tank look quite messy.

hi iori, if you read the post, i did not buy it

bartletts are pugnacious gangsters that are very very aggressive towards their own kind. usually for anthias, the most dominant one will morph to a male and the rest will remain females. however for bartletts, each female has the potential to morph into a male because they are all equally dominant. although not 100%, it is not uncommon to find all the bartletts morphing into males. they love fighting amongst themselves. feeding wise, no anthias can compare to the ease of bartletts. feed on pellets readily right from shipping day. no qualms about feeding and perfect for the SPS tank. however, they will not school properly and will swim everywhere and sometimes will chase each other relentlessly. bartletts are not anthias like at all, very greedy and brazen. flavoguttatus is the complete opposite. they are shy and remain tight in a school. they don't fight and kill each other as much as bartletts but feeding wise, difficult to get them on pellets. frozen food they may readily accept depending on health of individual.

very true. anyway even if someone is willing to spend that amount of money on a privitera anthias, have to wait very vrey long coz privitera anthias is very difficult to obtain. i'm contented with bartletts

what anthias are these digi?

Still patiently waiting for the following fishes. Prognathodes marcellae, Prognathodes aya, and the now heavily collected by brian greene, Cirrhilabrus johnsoni. P. marcellae is an african butterflyfish that steven used to bring in. so can wait for those. P. aya is a carribean one but so far never come before to my knowledge. C. johnsoni is endemic to Marshall islands, and share the same niche as the ultra rare Bell's flasher wrasse, both of which being collected by Mr. Greene now. so it's only a matter of time before we start seeing Johnson's fairy wrasse soon.

three very similar looking anthias. Pseudanthias flavoguttatus, Pseudanthias aurulentus, Pseudanthias privitera. the first one is commonly available and retails locally, 3 for $100. on the extreme end, the privitera anthias retails for around $1200 EACH. worth it? i don't think so.

I received a PM from a reefer here, reminding me not to use the word "nonsense" to describe fish. so to those who take offense by my usage of the word nonsense in relating to fish, i don't mean it the way you think. Every fish is worth something to someone. just because i do not like it does not mean i must label it nonsense. i get it. but that is not what i mean when i say "nonsense fish" what i mean is, when i buy something cheap and commonly available on impulse and add it to my tank without thinking, it will cause problems sooner or later like aggression, disease etc. and it will be very difficult to remove and create more problems in future. these are what i label as "nonsense" fish. i'm not demeaning the value or worth of every fish. afterall, everyfish is taken from the wild and what right do i have to point out what is nonsense and what is not. so for those who misunderstood me and took great great offense, i publicly apologize for my choice of words.

thanks! been looking for a male one for quite sometime, but never manage to find one. maybe because they look quite dull in the LFS that i did not notice. today also, when they came, i did not notice the males. but after looking closely, can see some faint purple colouration on the tail. only after placing them in reef tank setting, then the colours start showing up.

another pic of the male sunset. this shot showing it's nape (forehead). i love the little pattern on it's head. looks like some egyptian hieroglyphics. so cool. the tail looks like a flag, with the innermost being yellow, then red, then purple, stretching all the way to the dorsal fins and then to the head. colourful.

will update the tort in a few weeks.

yes. bartletts too engrossed chasing each other. started with 5 females now got 2 males 3 females. one of the 3 females starting to change into male. typical... so un-anthias like. like pigs and gangsters. eat and fight only. i've removed alot of nonsense fish so now my tank is quite empty can slowly stock and put in better fishes liao. moved my green tort right to the highest point of my scape and it's starting to get back it's blue again!

mantis will definitely pummel a crab any day.

Pseudanthias conneli, the harlequin goldie. a large african anthias that resembles the taeniatus anthias of the red sea.

the picture does not even do justice. the body is decorated with fine yellow spots. the tail, fins and head have metallic lilac colouration that glow under T5. and of course, the middle part of the tail is red. a stark contrast to the purple outlines.