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i like 3rd one too! 1st and last is too flame angel.

the more i see the brownish rusty flame, the more i want and the more i like! OK. next time come again i want the brown one. u can have the orange one!

digi, our next aim should be rusty flame X coral beauty hybrid. or rusty X coral beauty. this 2 are v rare but still affordable for me coz they come from philippine. flame x coral beauty.... that one from hawaii. i cant afford.

nobody buy because no body care, and no body knows.

yes mine is super orange. yours is more brownish. i want the brownish one too. and you want the orange one. in time, rusty flame will be common enough for us to obtain one more and for everyone to get one too.

one last photo. i dunno why the photos appear the wrong side up. never mind can still see the fish.

these are exceptionally peaceful dottybacks.... not all dottybacks are aggressive. L. multisquamatus and P. rosae are two very very rare dottybacks! i'm so happy that you obtain both. and i really really like them alot!

another photo. sorry for the blur. it's hard to take a photo of it swimming. as you can see from this photo, the colour of the fish is intense orange and it's not brownish nor red. it's more shepardi like than rusty.

mine has settled down some what and is eating well. a rather traumatic first day as it got a bit of chasing from the flame angel pair, especially the female. the terrorizing has stopped and the rusty flame hybrid is left unscathed, except for a little torn fin which should heal in a day.

yes but i let u have the orange dottyback coz i know u like it more than i do. i don't really care for dottybacks as much as you. so u can have it. and i bet it's very nice in ur tank with the rosae and tapeinosoma right? 3 v rare dottybacks togther. pls takea vid of all 3! so i can write on reefbuilders

even if it is, which it isn't. how could you tell? but if i had a true shepardi, i will freak out coz true shepardi's are almost unobtainable now. only the fake rusty-flames. but unless it comes form a guam or japan shipment, it is not. so pls, dun keep saying it's a TRUE shepardi! IT'S NOT!

no such thing as a true shepardi and a rusty flame lah. like i've said. true shepardi only found in guam and japan. if it's coming from a cebu source, it's named wrongly. and even if its a true shepardi, it will look exactly like a rusty flame hybrid. that;s the story of the rusty flame and why it is so interesting. because the real shepardi is thought to be a rusty - flame isolated in guam to form it's own population. at the end of the day, "rusty flame" and "shepardi" are identical in appearance, but different only in the name.

its the story of the rusty flame. THE STORY IS SO INTERESTING. but i'll refrain from posting here. time consuming and boring. yes to those who like interesting fishes, keep a rusty flame. u can never get sick and tired of the fish. how can you? every specimen is different!

it's still rare in thailand! NO rusty flame specimens have appeared there except for the one in the display tank. me too!! i lie on my floor and look at it in my sump. i'm there like almost whole day lying chest down on the floor and smiling when i look at it. only fish nerds like us who truly appreciate the fish and show so much interest in it will actually do something like this hahaha! cannot count on any LFS to bring in things for us. if we want things like this we must source for ourselves in the future and make arrangements. otherwise we will never get it!

haha!

the one from HK doesn't even look like a rusty flame to me. everything about it is rusty. it is an easy fish. mine is also feeding on pellets but i'm not releasing it first until it eats more and be more bold. it's also VERY aggressive! even more so than flame! only one day in my sump and it's bulling my fremblii butterfly which i added in earlier today to act as a dither fish. hard to believe we are obsessing about something that's become so nonsense everywhere else except here. jake rolls his eyes everytime i tell him about my rusty angel hybrid lol!

the photo does not do it justice. althought the stripes are less interesting than the first two, the colour is very deep and bright, like mine as you can see from the first photo.

yours is actually very nice and very different in shape also from mine. yours is longer in body shape and is very "rusty" in shape. mine is more round and heart shape and is very "flame" in shape. both are nice. they are breaking into our market now and can get to see more of them soon.

3 specimens arrived yesterday, and are the only 3 in Singapore at the moment. 2 were scheduled to arrive but one unexpectedly turned up unscheduled at another LFS. a super huge coincidence! in total, 3 rusty flames arrived displaying all three possible traits that these hybrids can possibly share. hybrid type 1) the hybrid shows more flame angel characteristic and is classified as a 'flame- rusty flame' hybrid type 2) the hybrid shows more rusty angel characteristic and is classified as a 'rusty- rusty flame' hybrid type 3) the hybrid shows equal amounts of rusty and flame angel characteristic, and resembles Centropyge shepardi from guam. these are classified as 'shepardi -rusty flame' * all classification are not standard and just given by me and digiman to make differentiation easier. after hunting this fish for almost 2 years and perhaps longer, the fish finally appeared. not because it is rare, but because they are always only shipped to U.S.A, japan and everywhere else except here. No LFS wanted to bring in because they don't care about the fish and probably don't know about it. and so we had to look for our own sources and finally managed to bring this in on our own with the help of some reefers. Anyway to cut the long story short, the now very "rubbish and common hybrid everywhere else in the world except singapore" is now finally here. reefers who want this fish, you can expect a steady stream of rusty x flame angelfish hybrid to trickle in from now on. note the word trickle. this fish is not going to appear in huge numbers like flame angels from hawaii. here is my specimen, the shepardi - rusty x flame angelfish.

the personatus lives in one of the best japanese tanks ever. i love that tank! the ventralis are so amazing! and i saw 2 pure lunatus fairy wrasse in thailand LFS display tank. they came from philippines not japan.

a Koi bodianus. this one REALLY koi. could this be like the st pauls rocks inbreeding?

ok. that'se pseudanthias charlenae. used to be very rare and a new species. but they seem to be trickling into the trade in small quantities. lovely alpha male specimens too.

nope. that is Pseudanthias charlenae. A relatively new species. which LFS is this btw?

a pair of B. paraleucostiticus