yikai

here's some other fishes sold at house of fins besides the bellae, africanum, sanguineus etc. i want the aurantidorsalis and semifasciatus. photos by scott w michael.

if you make a hole in the middle won't it end up like your previous scape? with a large hole in the middle.

maybe phthirophagus is not banned. if it is, they will not be able to get it. but then again, no idea. some sources state that it is banned. looks quite normal. but the adult will be very nice.

or you can just throw all your million small tiny rocks and use lesser bigger pieces. my tank only have 9 big rocks and so easy to scape

cannibalize means the thing is eaten by the same thing. i thought you meant your clowns eating your clowns.. unlikely eaten. most probably died and then devoured... wat size system are you keeping your grouper in? parameters?

its the scape.

this is the ugliest picture of a bellae i've ever had the misfortune to lay my eyes upon. it does the fish no justice and the filaments are all broken. but yes, nice fish still. but there are many many nicer flashers and it's only appealing to me coz of it's long tail filaments and rarity. the yellow declivis is god-sent. so rare here. saw this not too long ago. very nice.

teahcer scold liao. hor hor.

huh u rescape liao???

My greedy butterflies.. the cleaner wrasse is from a friend who decommed and he gave it to me. as you can see, very greedy but given a choice, i wont keep it and won't reccomend it.

isit? omg my memory so jialat meh? i don't recall at all. LOLOL

if jun kai pass you blue cesp, means it's not mine. there's 2 strains of blue cesp now. LCK only brought in 2 colonies and i bought 1. the other 1 i told junkai to buy. the one circulating the market now belongs to him. so far i have not passed any of my strain to anyone except jun kai, cedricang and wilsontan. both strains are different. mine seems to be abit more sensitive. i have both his and my strain in my tank now and mine seems to melt more easily when tank parameters are unstable. also the colour tends to lose more easily. but mine have fluffier polyps and is bluer. but i lost the blue in my old tank never got it back ever since. if you want i can pass you mine but needs time to grow. some melted after my kh incident.

huh its mine meh? since when did i pass you blue cesp?

omg zzz. the only thing nice is the cesp!

oh you have finally seen the errors of your ways. about time!

thanks thanks

hey bro thanks!!! been so so long since i've heard from you and pauline. hope both of you are ok, happy and hope your baby is healthy and happy too!

i was only joking about the rotting part. like i've said earlier. the venustus angel loves it there. it's the only fish apart from the roseafascia there. have ample swimming space, liverocks, macroalgae, feedings 2x a day. the lighting is subdued which replicates it's natural habitat. i don't feel like touching it coz it feels so at home there!

yes yes apologise for that! haha. i know you like angels. occasionally when we post some rare angels you will read and comment.

i posted all these photos of roseafascia in the rare fish thread but i don't think anyone reads that thread except fish nerds like me, so i'll post here. these below are some pictures of full grown terminal male C. roseafascia. their range actually very wide, from cebu to new caledonia, to palau, to fiji and some other locales. however they are deepwater, not abundant and hard to find. the body colour is light pink with a dark pink band from the snout to the tail just below the dorsal fin. this band gives it it's name, roseafascia. literally translated, it means rose-band. the common name is rose-banded fairy wrasse. the characteristic of fully grown males roseafascia is the super super long tail. look at some of these photos of large males. the pelvic fins are sapphire blue which adds contrast to the light pink body. it's going to take awhile before mine gets anywhere close to these photos. currently mine is only around 4 inches. not even halfway to max size at 9 inches!

i will put them back dun worry. no its not an empty space anymore. my CR, UV, test kits, barang barang etc etc etc, power plugs everything inside liao. good also lah coz then i have somewhere to keep all these things. but if ever the day come when i want to build another tank inside, i will just move all those junk to my storeroom. cannot set up another tank for roseafascia. max size 9 to 10 inches. largest fairy wrasse in the world. needs a big spacious tank with tons of swimming space.

in my sump tank with the venustus angel. my sump has a compartment with liverocks and a sand bed. i'm keeping my venustus angel there temporarily because there was a point in time where it was bullying my other fish. but it's very greedy and very very healthy and that's very difficult to achieve for a venustus angel. i've tried i think around 6 venustus. this is my final try and succeeded. eating like a machine, never stop. but for now it's in my sump in solitary confinement. it's happier here actually. it prefers the dimmer lighting since it's a deepwater cave dwelling species. the roseafascia too. roseafascia is a deepwater wrasse that don't see much sunlight, unlike their shallower water brethrens. so it's colouration really improve 10x in the dimmer sump tank and the rose colouration is really striking. good also lah. both of them can rot down there while my other peaceful fishes gain confidence.

thanks. they will be more beautiful in the days to come even after adding the roseafascia back. that is, the dream anyway. can lah. naoko and beauperryi also 2 terror fish.

yap! sorry couldnt talk to u just now. was talking on my phone and it's giving me f* alot of problems. it only works on loudspeaker. the headset does not work. you have no idea how fierce roseafascia is. the terror that it is is just legendary. anyway, beauperryi and naoko wrasse are also very aggressive when settled down. but both of them are getting beaten to a pulp single handedly by 1 roseafascia. and it's piece of cake for it. so im letting the beauperryi and naoko get comfortable first and show their aggressive side. then i'll introduce back the roseafascia and the 2 will hopefully, be strong enough to fend against the roseafascia.