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Pinnicle brought in 2 VERY RARE Pseudocoris heteroptera, the Torpedo wrasse. Any FOWLR keepers here with big tanks might want to consider this fish. Debut appearance in Singapore and it's truly a rare fish. Can see pictures from their sponsor forum posted by them. Very gorgeous wrasse.

beautiful male rhomboidalis. From the shot you posted, it seems to be excited. tail has turned purple. When in the normal un-excited state, the tail will turn transparent again. The fishes at LCK were most likely held at the holding facility for awhile, and are not straight from the ocean. Thus, we have different fishes from different parts of the world in one shipment. Rhomboids from marshalls, blue angel from carribean, flasher from solomon islands. The fishes are thus very stable and all used to captivity and will not most likely not suffer any casualties. rhomboids are beautiful and every time i see them, i want to buy again. But i've kept them too many times already and somehow don't have the urge like before.

why not? Paracheilinus bellae has now entered the trade in the US. Already at least 5-6 specimens have been up for sale. maybe even more! It will only be a matter of time before more come. P. bellae, like C. johnsoni, is also endemic to Kwajalein atoll, a tiny island in the chain of islands called the Marshalls. Brian green is now based in the Marshalls and is heavily collecting C. johnsoni. P. bellae is found in 18-31m only, and is haremic. Like Johnsoni, it will also be collected and shipped out as well. The market now is hungrier for Johnsoni than bellae, so there's more Johnsoni being caught and sold. Given time, bellae will catch up also. P. bellae is very normal looking. Only thing interesting about it is it's rarity, extreme long tail and dorsal filaments. It is replaced by P. filamentosus in the Philippines and elsewhere in the world.

peanut worm.

Iwarna's wyoming white and green banded gobies shipment postponed to monday morning (tentative).

i know what you meant haha. but i won't also. i don't think i will muster up enough courage to cut up a perfectly beautiful and healthy fish and glue it to frag plugs! haha!

never. i have so many people in waiting list for my roseafascia but i won't sell it unless absolutely necessary.

Not fine. it should be opened during the day to photosynthesize and capture food. at night it will shrink.

the dorsal fin is normal. only thing different is the colour, which is yellow. filamentosus flasher is a very common fish found in indo shipments. every indo shipment sure have 1. this one is rare coz it's a geographical variant from Solomon Island, and the colour is just very different and nicer. yes the millie is from pinnicle. i love the polyps!!

Some basic information provided by fishbase on the world's rarest fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus claire. So rare that it's endemic to Rarotonga, Cook islands. So rare that there's only 2 holotype pictures of it. So rare that even Kuiter's new book on labridae fishes not only does not have a photo of it, it also does not have any description. Here's a short description from fishbase and the 2 holotype pictures. Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 9; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 9; Vertebrae: 25. Dorsal fin with progressively longer spines; interspinous membranes of dorsal fin of males not reaching above spine tips; caudal fin rounded; pelvic fin of male 3.0 in SL, of female 4.6 in SL; male yellowish dorsally, shading on side to pale lavender-pink; head dusky yellow with purple bands; dorsal fin mainly orange-red with a violet band at base and a narrow dark red margin on spinous and anterior soft portion of fin; caudal fin red with broad distal yellow border containing a submarginal dusky zone in central part; female orange-pink, head suffused with yellow dorsally; a purple band from corner of mouth to upper end of gill opening, then continuing ventrally on edge of opercle; dorsal fin yellow; caudal fin orange, shading outwardly to yellow. From the description and pictures, it seems to resemble the Flame wrasse in appearance. (Cirrhilabrus jordani). Both claire and jordani have rounded caudal fin (tail). Male is yellowish dorsally, shading to pale lavender pink for claire. Jordani males are red dorsally, shading to yellow. Head is dusky with purple bands in claire. Jordani males have yellow heads with red bands. Dorsal fin in claire is orange-red with violet band at base. Jordani has red dorsal fin. Tail is red with broad yellow border at edge of tail for claire, jordani has red tail with some specimens having yellow margin. Female for claire and jordani are almost identical except for colouration. amazing!

the family of wrasses is one of the biggest family in the marine fish kingdom. i'm sure the ones being caught and dumped are larger edible ones like parrotfishes and other larger wrasses. although there are plenty plenty of colourful fairy and flasher wrasses from indonesia and malaysia. A HUGE bulk of the popular wrasses in the marine hobby comes out of Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. but a good bulk of them also come from other exotic locales. Anyway don't dilute this thread anymore. Any more questions u can PM me.

after awhile the possum will be greedy enough to snatch food.. mine swims to the surface to bite huge chunks of mysis in the midst of active and aggressive fairies such as beauperryi, roseafascia, bathyphilus etc.

oh there are so many different kids of wrasses -.- how can you assume all are cheap and worthless that people dump aside? there are 57 species of fairy wrasses. at least half of them are so rare that they are only found in isolated parts of the world. many are endemic, meaning they are only found in one tiny part of the world and nowhere else. for example, Cirrhilabrus jordani. flame wrasse is endemic to hawaii. Cirrhilabrus johnsoni. Johnson's fairy wrasse is endemic to marshall islands. Cirrhilabrus blatteus. The Red Sea fairy wrasse is well, as the name suggest, endemic to Red Sea. some are very deepwater and are extremely difficult to collect. for example, Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis Cirrhilabrus bathyphilus. The rhomboid fairy wrasse and the hooded fairy wrasse. The rarest fairy wrasse in the world is Cirrhilabrus claire, The claire's fairy wrasse. It is not only rare, it's found ONLY in cook islands. till date there's only ONE photo of a dead specimen available. How then can you say that all are cheap and abundant? Each species has it's own unique story, how it's founded, it's biology, it's nature etc. It is very interesting to study each species in depth and that's why i'm so passionate about fish. it's not just fish. it's history. it's biology. it's psychology! it's everything! There will always be a handful of people, like you, who will never understand the level of "passion" people like me have. that's why we have 2 kinds of passionate reefers. One who enjoy the hobby so much and enjoy looking at fishes, keeping them, and the other who loves them so much that they study and read so much into everything. so yes i'm wrasse crazy, and there are many other people who are wrasse crazy! hope you understand now

probably. i love it alot haha. pink and green polyps. hope it continues to grow and do well. will update photo again when i get my digital cam back.

Paracheilinus filamentosus (Solomon Island var.)

Mum took the camera to hong kong, so i'm left with my handphone camera. Bought a beautiful millie today. Pink with green polyps. very healthy. polyps extending very well. pink appears brown using hp cam...... wilson you've seen it. any idea what they nickname this?

the goby is some kind of priolepis. posted here before. but forgot the scientific name.

The Johnson's fairy at CF is small. when fully grown, it should look like this. Very beautiful and unique species. It's one of the only 2 wrasses to have a deeply lunated tail. the other being Cirrhilabrus lunatus. Johnson's fairy is endemic only to Marshall Islands. To make it even rarer, specifically only one atoll is the entire chain of islands. The Kwajalein atoll.

CF came a pair of Cirrhilabrus johnsoni. The recent star of all fairy wrasses, Johnson's fairy wrasse. This fairy wrasse has not been in the market for almost a decade already. Emerging after it's long hiatus, is due to the fact that the sole collector, Brian Greene, is back in business. It is endemic to Marshall Islands, but is found most commonly in only one atoll in the islands, known as Kwajalein atoll. Priced very steeply at 1.6k a pair. It's about time that they came in to out little red dot's shores but the price will start dropping eventually since they are being collected now.

Wrasse aficionados, LCK has some very interesting wrasses installed. Cirrhilabrus beauperryi (beuaperryi fairy wrasse). Rare species from PNG. Also many filamented flasher Wrasses (PAracheilinus filamentosus). These are not from indonesia, but rather, from Solomon islands. A rare variant with bright yellow dorsal fin. Many rhomboid, mystery, condei, etc

yah it's a goby.

the price has risen due to competition from overseas country. i think now it's 5-7 red notes/fish. not sure.

Ginsburgellus novemlineatus Feeds on tube feet of sea urchin.