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CF has many new shrimp gobies. looks like an undescribed species of tomiyamichthys? im not sure what it is.

i didn't make the presenting team lol. have abit of short tongue and don't do well presenting on large crowds. i just went there as a supporter. but yah getting to see 39 countries waving their flags and cheering. is amazing.

students in free enterprise. it's an international organisation spanning over 39 countries where university students do overseas or local community service projects. and every year, these counties come together for a huge event and fight out for the world cup. in each country there will be a few universities competing, and the national champion will represent that country in the world cup. singapore's project was the india one that i did about 2 years back. and every country has to work super hard and many sleepness nights to do up a big fancy powerpoint or movie and present to a panel of highly distinguished world class judges from huge companies like KPMG etc. singapore came in 3rd place i think in 2008 berlin. next year will be held in washington dc.

i just came back just now. was in KL for 2011 SIFE world cup competition. germany won first place followed by zimbabwe in 2nd. singapore made it to semi finals only.

the male watanabei is stunning. my second favourite genicanthus angel.

yah Montipora digitata

exquisite wrasses from vanuatu is my favourite colour morph for this very variable species. males have yellow unpaired fins and the pink saddles on the dark green body is very spectacular!

hi every-meow. i'm back from KL after 4 days. semifasciatus season is still in swing! here's some from LADD (live aquaria's diver's den)

oh i forgot! CF had a blackfooted lionfish over the weekend. pretty rare and very beautiful with blue highlights on the fins. call to check if still available. most likely yes

not bad right! i like the blue lips.

well. guentheri and xanthurus has a overall, similar colouration. white with orange-yellow posterior. so the two when mixed, doesn't give a very blarring obvious sign. we identify one of the parent first. look at the forehead. there is a small crown. this crown came from the xanthurus. however, the crown is not as strong as a full blood xanthurus because it has been diluted by the crownless guentheri. look at the body markings too. it has a slightly criss-crossed marking, similar to xanthurus. xanthurus has a very strong chevron mark. but this hybrid is more spotty, but the chevron pattern is still obvious. now for parent 2. the dorsal fin is a little yellowish, compared to pure white for xanthurus. the guentheri blood gave it the yellowish tint. also. guentheri has spots on the body which, when mixed with the chevron from xanthurus, gave a chevron-spotty design. often times it's very difficult to guess the hybrid. so just look at the overall appearance and try to match which parent gave which design. it's like putting a whole poster of butterflies and try matching them to see if they give you something that looks like the hybrid. also take into consideration the range in which they overlap. for example, a spotfin butterfly will never hybridise with a raccoon butterfly. hope that helps. but most of the time, it's still a guessing game.

remember this? it's the blue crowned clarion caught by cortez marine.

remember the tufi damsels from PNG? according to people who've kept them before, highly aggressive.

jake's misbar latezonatus clownfish. i'd rather a full bar latz.

here are some photos of jake adam's fish. i "borrowed" them to share here. but i don't think he'll mind hehe.. his clarion angel. the orange from a clarion is unbeatable by any other! stunning!

very nice and healthy joculator. the hammer coral also very nice!

gorgeous right? lemonpeels are so variable in the hybrids they produce!

you can PM fuel for greenbanded gobies. not sure if there's stock now but they are sometimes available at Iwarna.

here's 2 hybrid of the pearlscale butterfly. the first photo was taken in the wild. it's a xanthurus x argentatus hybrid the second photo is from a dead specimen i found at coral farm the photo of me holding it looks fresh as it just died. really a shame because this is an extremely rare hybrid of xanthurus x guentheri. it was featured in one of my older reefbuilders article. both spectacular hybrids. really unfortunate that the guentheri x xanthurus hybrid was dead!

why does this juv joculator have a crown? does it go away with age? most juvenile jocs i see do not have it.

my favourite hybrid lemonpeels are those with a very black back with electric blue lines. such as these. but these are considered ultra grade and very rare. they even have grouchou heads!