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none. too aggressive for my liking. and don't know if the colour can hold or not. the yellowish peach colour is so nice though.

so you're the one who got the black tang. make sure it eats... ALOT. at least 3 times a day. a zebrasoma tang this size is not easy especially to keep the body weight.

The temminckii complex features many species of fairy wrasse that closely resemble Cirrhilabrus temminckii. The true C. temminckii fairy wrasse is unobtainable in Singapore and is found only in Japan. Thus all the temminckii wrasse aka blue margin wrasse, are members of the complex which have eluded scientists until now. Iwarna has the rarest of the Temminckii complex, with specimens resembling Cirrhilabrus katherinae (Katherine's Fairy wrasse), an extremely rare fairy wrasse found in Japan. I've never seen this colour morph of "temminckii" and it's quite interesting. but do note that they are very aggressive. the last photo shows the REAL temminckii from japan. some of the specimes at iwarna look like the real teminckii too. update. ok just checked fishbase and other literature. Cirrhilabrus temminckii occurs in Philippines too besides Japan. the ones at iwarna are the TRUE teminckii which is VERY RARE! They differ from the other fake teminckii complex by having orange and yellowish body colour with a greenish belly.

no black tangs at LCK.

Rare does not always mean nice. and the following anthias fit the bill perfectly. Pseudanthias hutomoi, P. hypselosoma and P. sheni

how i wish we can have marquesas shipment... Chaetodon declivis, Centropyge loricula and PSEUDANTHIAS REGALIS! P. regalis is IMO, the HOLY GRAIL of Pseudanthias. it's very very abundant in the marquesan archipelago but found no where else. like many other anthias, they just swarm over reefs. i really really hope to see this one day in the trade. so far they have never been collected. they are like the smithi butterflies of anthias. However, due to limited distribution and range, P. regalis is classified as a vulnerable species in the IUCN red list.

i don't actually know if CF ones are real yellow bellies or juvenile grey bellies leh.

beautiful shot of a yellow belly regal angelfish. i wonder when will i ever get to find one that is 2-3 inch and is a yellow bellied one.

i actually prefer submale labouteis over alpha male ones. the lack of colour and the white line is so nice.

rhomboids at iwarna today were so golden compared to the uglier purple faced ones. examples from online.

scott's fairy always look so so gorgeous but the colour is almost impossible to retain! so angry

a video of the earlei trio!

some suprise fish that were not in the stocklist at iwarna's hawaii shipment. it's in already. - Bodianus sepiacaudus x1 (Peppermint hog) - Princess anthias x1 (Pseudanthias smithvansi) - Threadfin/Carberry anthias (Pseudanthias carberryi) - Vanuatu ventralis anthias x4 (Pseudanthias ventralis (ventralis)) suprised that it's not the hawaii one, but the vanuatu one instead * Black tang is only 1 inch * rhomboids 2 huge alpha male. very gorgeous. this shipment is good. all are males, no females. all very healthy. * one rare true blood red hawaii flame angels. (Look out for the ones with very red body, little back bars and little blue colouration. characteristic of true hawaii flames) * helfrichi firefish all very healthy also, colouration is superb.

let me go train and brush up first LOL! very unfit nowadays. so lazy and greedy put on so much weight! :chair: anyway thank you and all your friends that day and for introducing me to atsumi and koji. look forward to seeing you guys again!

on! let me know next year when you're planning to dive palau. meanwhile i need to go brush up on my diving...

PALAU? IF I EVER GET TO DIVE PALAU I WILL HECK CARE THIS MONTI AND CATCH MYSELF SOME EARLEI'S FAIRY WRASSE! HAHAHA! edit* sorry for the caps! didn't realised caps lock was on

more pics more pics of the world's first juvenile personatus!

ridiculous. absolutely ridiculous. time for me to brush up my diving. get a boat, and sail to, not hawaii, but PITCAIRN! land of smithis. it's really a shame that earlei is found only in Palau. Palau shipments are unavailable to us and all go to japan, BH, where earlei is available from.

YES EXTREMELY KAWAII DESU. lol. SUPER CUTE. but 15k for a fish that size? omg. GORGEOUS!

here's another photo of the 3.5cm RARITY with a baby bandit angel. the personatus is feeding on frozen food. lucky fella who bought it!

fully grown terminal males will have blue cheeks like the picture i posted in the wild. his is still not there yet. but nonetheless an extremely rare and beautiful fairy.

update on the baby personatus! it arrived in BH and is SOLD! oh my god look at the size!

scribbled angel probably?

not sure. ok white spots will only be present if they are still females, juveniles or sub-males. terminal males i think will not develop the white spots, or will have very little traces of it. roseafascia carry the white spots till adult hood and only the huge males will lack it. i do agree it is a bit stressed, thats why the spots are showing. but other than that there's almost not much difference from their non stress colouration. so what you are seeing now is almost identical to what you will be seeing when they are swimming in his tank.