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i dunno. i've never been to ahbac before too. but it should be updated in the lfs address page.

yes! meiacanthus is a very pretty genus of fish. but the nice ones are hard to get. Meiacanthus kamoharai is a lovely species from japan. they can occasionally be found in habours at the surface which makes them super easy to catch! unfortunately, we can't get them.

well, someone got them and gave us an updated shot! here's the happy and very healthy trio. oh god i love these angels so much. i have a trio of females and i'm waiting patiently for one of them to start morphing. for those who don't know, it's a very rare fish that's currently re-appearing again after disappearing for many many years. from the philippines, but very cheap. this fish's rarity in paper is higher than that of bandit angels and conspic angels. but now with the recent influx again due to targeted collection, many people everywhere are getting it. and many people in SRC have also had the chance to obtain this coveted species! so congratulations to those who managed to get their fins on the semifasciatus angelfish and i hope you take care of it for a long time! because there' no telling when they will just disappear all over again!

remember this gorgeous trio of semifasciatus angels from LADD?

i realize that the people in Singapore are more conservative. i type the same way here and in reefcentral. but i think the americans are more used to this kind of typing and anyway, reefcentral is an absolute shark compared to our humble SRC. so more effort has to be placed when typing here i guess so as to not step on anyone's toes. anyway let's just continue about fish and unless i am a rare fish or a hybrid fish, my name should not appear here anymore! *hopefully* haha

fang blennies hover in the water column and are free swimming fishes. so the behavior is different from most normal blennies that hide amongst rocks and slither amongst them.

nothing rare or anything just a large yellow belly blue tang that i find particularly nice.

here are some beautiful rare fish for sale in LADD. a quadrimaculatus butterflyfish, a male psychadelic head wrasse and a trio of rhomboid fairy wrasse. the quadrimaculatus butterfly is a difficult species that eats coral polyps, but it is not an obligate coral eater, and so, it is possible to keep them in the aquarium. although with much difficulty. the psychadelic head wrasse is a very tough species to keep. females are black with white spots and a red tail. the males are rare. but as with all anampses, they are tough to feed and tough to acclimate. the rhomboid trio is gorgeous. rhomboid wrasses are cheap and common now!

all the above fang blennies are recently described from PNG and some from indonesia! i hope that one day we'll find them in our shipments. fangblennies are very underrated fishes and are extremely beautiful and suitable for the home aquarium!

this one's very nice too! Meiacanthus abruptus

Meiacanthus cyanopterus. this is very gorgeous!!

Meiacanthus erdmanni

fang blenny fans, check out these new species of recently described fang blennies! this is very nice. Meiacanthus geminatus

very common fish. should be very easily available in CF, ah bac, iwarna, ahbeng.

nice! i like the semifasciatus angelfish in the background!

cool guy, the maze angels can be obtained from taiwan EZ marine. there are other sources too but i'm not really sure. digiman can help you more. jacky, when it comes to aberrant and hybrid fishes, ALOT of people do not like them. there are many instances here where we've posted aberrant mixed koi coloured fishes and people also go "err, ew!" hahaha. everyone has their own taste. for me, sometimes i do not like those aberrant fishes too. like tricolored koi tangs. i find them ugly.

anyway cool guy, here are some more pictures of the very rare maze angel. for those who don't know, a maze angelfish is not a legit species. it's tentatively named Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus, but it's actually a hybrid. a hybrid that's mixed up of the blue line angel, and other closely related species in the genus. the result is a fish with varying degrees of spots and stripes. each maze angel is also different in appearance! well just to clear the air above as to why i don't like the genus, it's because most of the fishes are rather difficult to keep, and they grow very large. i'm not really a fan of large fishes. i prefer small kinds. but i have to say the maze pattern and colours of this fish is quite remarkable and interesting.

well it certainly does not have anything to do with belittling people. i definitely don't mean to hurt anyone with my comments. yes what BFG said is true. i don't like alot of things. i don't like the chaetodontoplus angels, i don't like the holacanthus angels, i don't like alot of fish. but i'm just saying it out as a preference and definitely don't mean it in any other way. but i'm trying to change the way i type though. i'm trying to be lest brash and more calm in my writing. but i think it still needs work (obviously ._. ) i also don't force my thinking onto anyone else. i'm very straight forward in my words and sometimes it may hurt people unintentionally. but those who know me well and personally enough to not pass judgement, know that i do not mean harm and it's just my character. i was born this way. i'm not everyone's cup of tea but i certainly do not put people down for no reason. especially when it comes to fish. i love fish, some just more than others. so if i offended anyone here, i'm sorry. but thanks for my friends who cleared the air for me while i was away today. they know me well and i really respect and treat them the same way as i do to any other in the forum. i do not show bias and sometimes even they mistake my words for venomous post. so i apologize on behalf if i've offended anyone in anyway! sorry and peace

i dont like the entire genus of chaetodontoplus. i much rather the humble but very rare selene butterfly!!! or the modestus!

wow for a moment you got me extremely excited! that's not a tinker butterfly. it's a declivis butterflyfish

this one is mega rare. u can read more about here in the article i wrote not too long ago. http://reefbuilders.com/2011/07/22/prognathodes-basabei/

OMG I WANT THE SELENEEEE LOOK AT THE ROWS OF SPOTS!

no off the shelf market product is available for angels yet as far as i know. i could be wrong. but the difficulty of rearing angelfish is really far out harder than clownfishes or damsels. there are only a few people in the world that have succeeded so far and these are people with big resources and big everything.

be prepared to wait years. the U.S people can't even get them because of the embargo with Cuba. most specimens make it to japan and europe.

a good website. but a big lump of scientific names without common names can be very intimidating for beginners. also the website is not updated and some fishes are given the old taxonomic names. prognathodes butterflies are still listed as chaetodon and venustus angel is still listed under holacanthus, as opposed to paracentropyge