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lime green millie another one of my fav pieces.

red phymanthus crucifer, optic fibre pocci and acropora desalwii

orange phymanthus crucifer anemone. red with striped mouth also

super neon green acro frag. the green is intense and still keeping it after so long. a pink birdnest from previous walt smith shipment. it was brown due to neglect but the pink is coming back!

dunno what Acropora this is, but it's one of my absolute favourites. it managed to keep it's beautiful teal colouration. but the pink tips are slightly gone now. but its still a gorgeous piece. i like it.

green nephthea

some top down shots. pardon the diatoms on the sand. it's usually white. bicolor birdnest.

dont remind me. past few weeks i have lost many of my rarest fishes in my collection. JUMPING, MIA-ING....UGH.

digi, terryz, here's a tough one for u. wat's this? i also dunno wats this. maybe a very weird flame?

the two that jon has was from terryz no? anyway digi your philippine flame u posted is a rusty x flame i think. philippine flame look like normal flames but more orangey-yellow. the one u posted shape is different.

yah they did not fight at all. the very red one is a female. the anal fin is stubby and roundish. and has less blue markings. the male from the pic u can see the dorsal and anal fins are very long and sharp, almost like a holacanthus angel. there's also much more blue than the female.

philippine flame angel was offered for sale before. only 5 came. but none made it as far as i know. my pair died despite feeding as usual. terryz one i dunno still alive or not.

this was how they were sold in HK. the semilarvatus in one tub the heniochus intermedius in one tub and the mesoleucos + larvatus in one tub. not sure why.

FTS. pic looks abit dull and blached out. from the iphone. so pls bear with the crappy pics

this birdnest from cedric is a fast grower. many white growing tips.

I like this guy very much. recently moved house to live under the turbinaria. so it's very easy to spot him. I'm aware that there are two Priolepis species that look almost identical. the true P. nocturna and the other one, Priolepis sp which is undescribed. P. nocturna if i'm not wrong, has thick black bars and thick white bar contrast with no smudges inbetween. the undescribed one tend to be more brownish and have white smudges in the brown part and brown smudges in the white part. I'm not a goby expert so i don't know how to differentiate them phenotypically. but i believe mine is not the true P. nocturna, but the undescribed closely related one. this is a classic example showing that the fish does not have to be rare to be undescribed. this goby is commonly offered in the trade with some regularity, and both the true nocturna and this unidentified one can be bought here in SG.

the happy pair. i spent quite some time getting two of them. i had to find a male and a female first. 2ndly, i decided it would be cute to have a male with many bars and the female with very little bars. the two make an outstanding pair with the difference in barring. of course i did a FW dip and some pre-treatment before adding them to the main tank. and as suspected... many flukes came off both of them. angels and butterflies are fluke prone and only until recently, i've dipped all of them prior to entering. of course it's no where near full length QT. but it's better than nothing.

here's the male. as you can see the male is the normal xmas island/marshall island flame. very orangey in the middle.

thanks jeremy. here's more pictures of the female. the female is the very red one. i've posted a thread in RC and many ppl agree that it's the hawaiian one. john copps and hiroyuki tanaka have yet to reply me.

ultra red true hawaiian flame.

yes. joculator is another angel that can be bought at 10c size. flame angel is also another one that can be found at 10c, but very rare. flameback will kill the 10c joculator. if u indeed get a joc, u need to remove the flameback. also, regal angels can be found at 10c size. so can emperor and koran.

impossible if you already have an existing flameback. dwarf angels from the argi complex are ridiculously aggressive. flamebacks and argis are the worst. if may work if you add them simultaneously. but finding both at 10c size will mean that both will be 100% female. and that could mean fight till die, or one turning male as they grow. argi angel has never been offered for sale at 10c size before. flamebacks on the otherhand, have.

the tank is nicer in real life. the pic looks bleached from the lights. parvulus not stuning enuf. he needs a show fish. any butterfly the size of 50cents at least? lol

ok. i've sent the pic to john coppolino, Hiroyuki tanaka, eric michael and my thailand friend. we'll see what they have to say. i'll ask them if this is the true hawaii flame, and if not, how do i tell it from the xmas island variant? to be honest i don't really care if it is the hawaiian one or not. i like it because it's very red and it makes a strong contrast with my other one with many bars. so together it's very nice.

yup can still be found there i guess. maybe the difference is in the barring?