yikai

thanks for reminding. its not suitable ya hear? haha! but so are most things in the kopi tiam! so read with caution.

a compilation of SOME of my wrasses.

look at the photo i posted. that's how it looks like when its closed. your picture is dyed i think. there's colours inbetween the polyps. not suppose to.

AHH YES THANKS!! BLOOD AND GORE! MY FAVOURITE.

that's why not watching lol. discovery channel some crap about sacred sacrifice.... and animal planet got boring lion show. argh. and starworld is spamming american idol like 24 hours a day.

yeah. bored. nothing nice to watch.... only nice is cooking channel. but i'm too darn hungry to watch.

okok lol. dont take about the green banded gobies liao ;) so........... anything nice on TV lately..?

there are some in singapore already

bloody phone wont spoil no matter how hard i throw it. to think i treated it so well to prevent it from spoiling. it still give me problems. no luck with nokia phones. its like keeping a freakin bandit angel. argh! think i'll go repair it while im away in my 3 week trip. dont need it there anyway. anyway yes the fungia from GO. got 2. 1 was solid gold with no green. but the gold not as gold as mine.

N97. dont get it. bleeped uped fone. touch screen spoil...everything spoil .ARGHARGH. i smashed it against the wall like 5 times today. dam pissed with it. anyway, its even nicer in real life.. its like a little gold coin.

palys cut into two will survive. my purple death ripped into two and okay leh lol. each grew back.

yup. only from Kashiwajima Island

cost of...?

yea. S. pentafasciatus

one of the most beautiful stonogobiops IMO aside from yasha. but i think one of the rarest too.

sorry forgot again, joculator angels avaialble at CF, and one dracula goby. Stonogobiops dracula

yeah maybe. i think diet and light also plays a part. i have seen "bleached" yellow and blue tangs before... also notice in some cases, the fish fades in colour as it ages. seen those tangs, angels and even gobies!, that drop alot of colour after years in captivity.

i dunno? there are some fishes that don't retain colours right? or isit only wrasses? notice some anthias also fade colours to shadows of their former glory. could be diet related? lack of carotenoid pigments? in that case cyclopeeze might help i think. or in this case, haremic withdrawl could also play a part. what's most important is the success of regaining their colours. must urge more reefers to post pics and share if they do have fishes that fade colours and regain.

wow... lol. never would i ever imagine..

Pmed you. thanks

what about non wrasses that cannot flash?

never see it flashing before. but it does like my rhomboid very very much. will swim along side the rhomboid and twitch the two pelvic fins. and open up all the fins. maybe this is one reason for the return in colour. but want to see more of such cases! wonder if anyone can or isit possible to reverse an extremely faded fish?

sad to hear the decomm. the lovely lineatus is in good hands i presume ups for the joculator trio!

As many would know, some fishes do not hold colour well in the aquarium. be it angles, wrasses, etc. I think the most prone family of fishes to succumb to colour fading will be wrasses, and of course, the infamous scott's fairy. which will fade to literally black in no time. Not too long ago, i collected a very large slightly over 4 inch cebu pylei wrasse from a reefer here. Cebu pylei differ from the vanuatu pylei counterpart by having a thick black border on their tail, and a black patch on their dorsal fin. When i first received it, it had a very brilliant red colouration but it had lost the black on the tail and fin, which i love. however, the fish was still a gorgeous specimen. i realised recently that the black is returning from this fish! it has been in captivity for years and was passed down from reefer to reefer, and i'm currently the 3rd person holding it. to my knowledge, the black has been gone for quite awhile. It is starting to develop the black on the tail and dorsal once more! so i'm very pleased. this is my first time experiencing reverse colour fading in wrasses, in my tank. not sure if it's lighting, diet or the community it is in. anyone with similar experience with other fishes? please share! its great to see faded fishes regain their colours, although i seldom see that happening. will be an industrial break through is someone manages to retain the lovely colours of a scott's fairy, much less BRING IT BACK FROM BLACK!!