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house of fins 53rd splash event photos. no photos of the bell's flasher but here's some other. bodianus sanguineus apolemichthys arcuatus liopropoma africanum chelmon marginalis chaetodon daedalma

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there's actually a 6th member for the roaops genus. i've posted before. but the 6th member is so ridiculously rare that no specimen has ever been collected and only one picture of it. it has only been seen once and never seen again. that's how rare it is. so for simplicity sake, people never talk about the 6th member. in fact, almost no one knows this existed. i happen to chance upon it in a book. Chaetodon (roaops) guyotensis.

mitratus is gorgeous. the beautiful rich yellow body and the black bands are very nice in person. i bought one before but it died after a few weeks. but it died because of problems upon arrival, and had nothing to do with the hardiness of this fish. the price varies, from slightly below 200 to slighty above. depends on which LFS you buy from of course. some LFS can sell up to 300. they usually come in around the same size as my declivis. seldom smaller, but i've seen 1-2 inch specimens before.

there are a few. my friend bigbigfish also has a declivis. declivis is beautiful but is not as highly sought after as the tinker's butterfly or the mitratus butterfly. both are more beautiful and equally hardy.

declivis butterflyfish belongs to the "tinkeri complex" of butterflies, and this whole group is placed in a different genus called "roaops". they are commonly referred to as the roaops butterflies. all 5 of them are exceptionally hardy and very beautiful. they arrive very healthy and always begin feeding a mere few hours after arrival. the following pictures show all of the 5. first picture is declivis, which is found in marshall islands, line islands and surrounding locales. it is shipped in via hawaii shipments. 2nd picture is a mitratus butterfly, which is found in the indian ocean. they are shipped in via sri lankan, maldive and mauritius shipments. 3rd picture is a burgess butterfly which is found in the indo-pacific region. very common and shipped in via philippine shipments. 4th picture is a tinker's butterfly which is found in the marshall islands and surrounding hawaiian islands. they are shipped in via hawaii shipments. the 5th picture is a very very rare yellow crowned, or flavocoronatus butterfly which is found in marshall islands and guam. they are exceptionally rare and only a few handful have ever been shipped in. all went to japan. as you can see, all share similar shape and pattern. my fav is the mitratus and declivis.

declivis butterfly is very very hardy. it's one of the hardiest butterflies in the world and can take shipping very well. they will also begin feeding almost instantly like mine did. feeding on pellets on day 1. it will not morph into the yellow one because the black and yellow declivis butterflies are two seperate sub-species. Chaetodon declivis (declivis) and Chaetodon declivis (wilderi). mine is C. declivis (wilderi), it's the blacker one. C. declivis (declivis) is rarer. declivis butterfly is actually not rare and one of the easiest butterflies to keep. the reason why we don't see them here often is because reefers and LFS always percieve butterflies as difficult and hard to sell.

there are two morphs (subspecies) for the declivis butterfly. the one i have is an entirely black morph, while the other is the entirely yellow one. the yellow one is very rare in the trade and i love it much more than the black. unfortunately, the only time i've seen it was last year in CF but it was too big. hope to find the yellow one again.

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this one is GORGEOUS. but not a pseudanthias. Tosana niwae.

isn't this P. elongatus?

den i dunno.

i miss my mac

yes CF has this. it's some kind of dottyback. dunno wat it is but maybe Pseudochromis tapeinosoma

a fox coral is an LPS..

CF also have some female and sub-male Genicanthus caudovittatus angels.

yes. this is a fully grown terminal male flavoguttatus anthias. most anthias will develop this long dramatic forked tail when fully grown and also long ventral fins. however, all anthias in the same "complex" and similar in appearance to flavoguttatus will share the same elongated dramatic long tail that the flavoguttatus posess. they are the - Pseudanthias lori (Tiger queen anthias) - Pseudanthias smithvanizi (Princess anthias) - Pseudanthias aurulentus (Golden anthias) - Pseudanthias parvirostris (Sunset anthias) - Pseudanthias privitera (Privitera anthias)

griffis has a very wide naturally occuring range, which includes the marshall, line islands, solomon, PNG and even northeast indonesia. they are also quite durable and feed very readily. but they cannot tolerate copper treatments and will develop HLLE very quickly in copper. their "ugly" nature is what puts people off and thus the low demand for griffis, even though it is a widely available and easy fish. i personally like griffis angel but they always come in in such big sizes. bandits on the other hand, look more handsome and for the same colour combination, bandits are a more popular choice. anyway, bro orsony do you know what corals at comign to LCK on wednesday? softies? LPS?

oh chey! it's the rare "xmas island" new trigger ah. hahahaha.

Anampses lennardi in someone's tank!

omg. crosshatch trigger x goldenback hybrid.

yah lah uncommon coz no demand mah. just like tinker's butterfly, declivis, fremblii, marcell, aya, etc etc. these butterflies are common just no demand. i dun want griffis. too big. but they look quite cute.