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Some pictures of iwarna's vanuatu fishes. Anampses neoguinaicus (China wrasse). Cirrhilabrus condei (Conde's fairy wrasse) Cirrhilabrus punctatus (Vila/fine spotted fairy wrasse) Paracheilinus rubricaudalis (Vanuatu flasher/red tail flasher wrasse) Cirrhilabrus pylei (Pyle's fairy wrasse) shipment arrived wee hours of the morning. All above fishes listed came in sizable quantities especially the flasher, condei, punctatus and china wrasse. have exquisite, many scotts, many laboutei, many red margin, regals, lutescens wrasse, fusilier anthias, many more. 12x hooded wrasses but all females. female hooded wrasses although not as beautiful and less desirable than the males, are extremely rare in the hobby. female hooded are almost never shipped in and for those wishing to keep a pair or a harem, getting a small group or pair of females will enable that.

yes well it's been fun talking about something so intellectual at this time of the night. keeps your brain juices flowing. i've always been a big fish geek but it's nice to talk about light for a change and nice daylight pun! hehe.

vanuatu fish tomorrow morning.

no cannot. the coral has symbiotic algae living within the coral's tissues. the algae is called zooxanthellae. zooxanthellae uses sunlight to produce sugars and food. the food feeds the algae itself and the coral too. the coral requires supplemental feedings from other planktonic stuff in the water column, eg, zooplankton, phytoplankton etc. without sunlight, zooxanthallae will die. zooxanthellae die means the coral tissues will not be able to survive since they lost major food supply. sometimes if lighting is too much or too little or coral experience other stress factors, the tissues bail out the zooxanthellae and the coral becomes white. this is known as bleaching. in such cases, the coral dies very easily. yes filtering of seawater removes plankton. that is why if you keep non-photosynthetic corals that rely 100% on plankton for food in a tank with filtered seawater, it cannot survive. you will need to manually feed planktonic food for it's survival.

agreed. also, stigmata blennies grow very big and may lose the gorgeous red streaks.

Very nice P. haenae. i do see some minor geographical variants between P. hanae from philippines and japan. very nice. nice australian hooded too. although my least favourite of the three variants of hooded, its still beautiful and i like this species very much.

yes this is the stigmata blenny.

of course. based on a rough read through of the abstract, it makes plenty of sense. too little light is bad and too much light is bad. however, plant keeping and reef keeping should not be followed identically but rather, a guideline. photosynthetic terrestrial plants photosynthesize either using C3, C4, or CAM pathway. C3 and C4 pathways are used by C3 and C4 plants while CAM pathway are used for desert plants living in dry environment. Land plants also make use of the Z-scheme (electron transport chain) as the first stage of photosynthesis to convert light energy to adenosine triphosphate and NADPH These two compounds are used for photosynthesis in the 2nd step. what goes on inside algae and zooxanthellae may be similar, exactly the same, or completely different. i don't know how it works in marine algae and zooxanthellae so i cannot advice you on this and i'm very sure no one else here can too. so first thing's first, identify the mechanism of photosynthesis in marine algae and more specifically, the zooxanthellae symbiotic algae within corals first. then compare this to photosynthesis in land plants. if exactly the same, then the above abstract can be applied. also, PAR, spectrum, temperature everything plays a part too. it's a very complex ideology and needs plenty of research. Hope this helps

yes very nice. blue is nicer than the pink and orange ones. IMO.

the older fishes are stronger so can resist the velvet better. but as you can see, they still succumb to it sooner or later. from the time of infection till time of death is only 1 day. that means that it's velvet and it's killing your fish very fast. the fishes are resisting the velvet with the help of your UV but once it catches it, it died very quickly.

copper will help but not a guarantee. velvet if too severe will not be cured with copper. if it's early stages and the other fishes do not show symptoms, copper works very well.

i've not used copper before so i cannot help you on this. maybe u can ask digiman what brand he used and how because he use before. it's useful to keep some at home for future. anyway, copper dose too much = fish die. dose too little = useless. the margin of error is too slim. that's all i know.

jon, check your pm!

pic is WAY too big. open the pic with paint and resize it using the option on top. make it smaller size.

please type with punctuations. this is the 100th time im reminding you. if you want me to help you, you have to calm down and type properly so that i can read what you are saying. this is the 3rd time im saying. your velvet did not kill your fishes so quickly as it should because you have your UV. for example. Boy A has final stage cancer. Boy B has final stage cancer but is undergoing chemotherapy. both boy A and B will die but boy B lasted an extra 5 months. why? because the chemothepray prolonged his life. that is what your UV is doing now. Your fishes are still infected with velvet and will still die but slower because of the UV. if not for it, within 2-3 days all will die. also this is the 2nd time im saying this. White powdery spots very fine like dust, is velvet. not flukes. flukes either infect the gills or infect the skin. gill flukes = veryh eavy breathing and die slowly over few days. skin flukes = alot of scratching, alot of flicking, sliming, pale patchy colours on the eyes and skin. this is the 3rd time im saying this. to cure your fish, the only chance you have now is copper. but for velvet, when you notice symptoms and fish start dying, it's too late already and copper might not even work. you must listen to my advice because i've repeated this multiple times over the past 1 hour liao. good luck!

die next day after infection of white powder = velvet. powdery spots all over the body is a sign of velvet. it's not flukes. it's velvet. like i said, the UV helps abit thats why your fishes are not dying as quickly as per normal. this should be a lesson learnt for stocking so fast and so many fishes at once. next time don't repeat this. your best bet now is to remove all fishes and copper everything. however most likely copper will not work at this stage and you will watch as your fish die one by one.

DYING DAILY? that's not flukes. flukes don't kill this quickly. you pm me say your yellow tang is covered in fine dust. is it breathing very heavily? how long already. this sounds like velvet. velvet kills very fast. within a few days ALL will die. the reason why you still have some fishes alive is because of your UV. but it's just prolonging the outbreak. after you solve this ordeal, i hope it serves as a lesson not to anyhow buy fish and buy so many. your tank recently was over stocked with more than 30 fishes and there was a point where you had more than 10 angels, more than 10 anthias, more than 10 wrasses at any one time. the high traffic of fish with no quarantine will definitely bring in disease. flukes are very common in wild caught angels, and so is velvet.

Iwarna and LCK.

vanuatu fishes at iwarna tomorrow. Wrasses Pylei fairy x 16 Punctatus fairy x 17 Labout's fairy x 19 Exquisite fairy x 4 Hooded fairy x 12 Red margin fairy x 9 Scott's fairy x 10 Rubricaudalis flasher x 8 Lutescens moon wrasse x 9 Condei fairy x 23 Mystery wrasse (1 only) Coris gaimard Coris rubromaculatum China wrasse (A. neoguinaicus) x 5 Meleagris leopard wrasse (Male and females) Angels Regal x 8 Deepwater coral beauty x 7 Anthias Purple queen Sunburst Fusilier (I think it is L. waitei) Oblique dottyback Moorish idol Stigmata blenny etc

especially the declivis and marginalis. these butterflies are very hardy and as you can see, they're so greedy and seem to lack one important survival aspect. fear. they're fearless! nip my fingers, swim up to me at the glass, go inside an empty betta box for no reason. in fact, my marginalis spends more than half the day inside my betta box waiting for food. so much personality, so beautiful and so hardy.

no particular advantage or disadvantage. they are just found upside down in nature and i find they look nicer upside down. so up to you how you want to position them. just like sun corals. they are always found upside down in the wild too.

here's some pictures of lace corals with their extremely minute transparent polyps in which they open up within their grooves. they are almost always found hanging upside down under overhangs. so try to place them upside down in an area with very high flow.

you can try using phyto and other planktonic foods that are meant for these kinds of corals. but even so, it will only be prolonging it's death. if you want to try non photosynthetic corals, seafans are the easiest. they accept bigger food like cyclopeeze. followed by cauliflowers and finally these.

it will definitely not survive in your SPS tank. these corals can barely even survive even when given the approriate amount and type of food. they just demand too much feeding that you dont have the time to manually feed unless you go for continuous feed system. this coral's track record is even worse than cauliflowers (dendronephthea sp.)