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yup. i'm dealing with PO4 now. so holding back on corals for now. after cycling, my PO4 went up to 1ppm. after using rowa crystal and WC, now it dropped to 0.25-0.5 still super high but fishes don't usually care about PO4. so must lower it to 0 before i put corals in. NO3 surprisingly 2ppm lol?

all it's unpaired fins are black with the blue neon markings! so nice!

nice hybrid peel

the cardinals should like hanging under the overhangs haha. nwe tank syndrome bah. mine oso.

depends bah. u going for dwarf angels? he caves will be good for them.

jiayou! very hard to find bah. smaller size fish are always nicer.

the tinker with flavo blood looks like a declivis? my old declivis look similar. coz the back is not pure yellow... but black with yellowish outline.

it eats only live food lei. quite ma fan. actually i dont mind buying it... but cannot keep in my reef tank bah

lol nice leh terryz!! nice scape!! love the open area in the front.

he got it from CF. the price is a secret

looking for male bellus angelfish [genicanthus bellus] and yellow mask angel [genicanthus semifasciatus] (male/female)

not really holy grails, but these 3 must get. male bellus angel male yellow mask angel marcellae butterfly

octotaenia obtainable easily. it's not rare, just not shipped only pintail is very rare and also alot of competition. but recently too many surprises like roseafascia and marjorie. so hey, who knows! haha. lunatus is very rare. but not impossible. still obtainable and maybe only if i get it from japan. nevermind, it will show up in singapore one day. months, years, who knows? attenuatus also available. it has been brought in before years ago. it's from kenya, africa, and not some obscure place. so i'm sure it's still relatively obtainable.

a better choice Rdiant wrasse, halichoeres iridis. the species name comes from the word iris, which is a shade of purple in which the body displays. when grown to a large enough size, their tail will develop a lovely sky blue colouration. unique to only big raidiant wrasses.

still sourcing for these 4 wrasses. the other holy grails of fairy and flasher wrasses - paracheilinus octotaenia (eight line flasher wrasse. found in red sea. obtainable but need to source) - cirrhilabrus lunatus (very very rare. found only in japan and even more rarely, in indonesia) - cirrhilabrus cf. lanceolatus (the pintail wrasse. very rare. but found in cebu. maybe if we're extremely lucky, we will see it here) - paracheilinus attenuatus (the attenuatus flasher wrasse. found in kenya. obtainable but need to source)

currently only have a few kinds. a small group of melanomarginatus wrasse, 1 roseafascia, 1 marjorie, 2 angulatus flasher wrasse. the roseafascia and marjorie are considered one of the "holy grails" of wrasses. both of which i've obtained via very lucky finds and at very reasonable prices. rhomboids are so common now that i've not even considered them to be rare anymore. and they're offically off the holy grail list. many of the very rare fishes are obtained via accidental finds..so i hope my luck continues.

some of the more interesting fishes i've collected so far... none of these photos are mine. all taken from google. i did not take recent pictures of my fishes. - a juvenile white bar maculosus angelfish. bought this from LCK. white barred maculosus angels are all captive bred from taiwan. the white bar is a very rare variant. - chelmon marginalis. the margined butterflyfish from the land down under. an easy butterflyfish closely related to copperband butterflyfish - marjorie's fairy wrasse. a very rare fijian endemic fairy wrasse. the first ever to come to singapore. founded by bruce carlson, named after his wife, Marj. - roseafascia wrasse. also known as the rose banded fairy wrasse. this is a very rare fairy wrasse in Singapore. the only one left in Singapore at the moment.

haha. L4D marine no i only have 12 don't forget when the tank is matured with lots of fish and corals, little food will end up on the sandbed as fishes will devour everything up. so the nassarius snails will die. 12 is fine i think.

good that you're collecting the marjorie tomorrow. if i remember correctly your thiellei's headband isn't connected? there's a spot somewhere.... maybe i remember wrongly

btw digiman, never post a pic of your thiellei clown? your thiellei looks rather different from some of those on the net

out of the sand they emerge. like zombies....

of course! that is without a doubt. captive bred fishes never lose their wild instincts. these guys still eat pods. although they may not be dependent on them since they accept prepared foods my captive bred maculosus angels went straight for my clove corals. hahaha