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Ya it's pretty amazing. Makes me wonder if the result was a hybrid x hybrid? Or just a regular F1 hybrid from 2 normal parents. There's tons of super amazing ultra lemonpeel hybrids around. Lemonpeels remain to be one of the most promiscuous species of dwarf Angels capable of producing many hybrids with a few species

I hope the matter will rest soon. Afterall there has been no right and no wrong in all the "exchanges" between me and Johan. We all have our points and it's only in the matter of execution. I definitely am no expert nor do I self proclaim that, and all I'm interested in is sharing whatever I know on this forum. Wether or not the information is from books, my scientist and hobby friends from around the world, or internet. wether it is true or false, you decide. Afterall we all start somewhere.

yes here you can see Cirrhilabrus cenderawasih taken from rudie kuiter's wrasse bible. it's v similar in appearance to walindi.

there are no emperor angels documented from hawaii islands. this is a common misconception that i hope i can debunk today. our hawaii shipment contains fishes from marshall island, mainland hawaii and christmas islands. but the collection and distribution facililty is in hawaii, so everyone thinks the fishes that come from "hawaii" shipment, come from hawaii. flame angels, rhomboid fairy wrasses, helfrichi etc are all caught from marshall islands. the only real fishes coming in from hawaii are potters angel, lemonpeel, fisheri angels and a few others. the orange tail emperors from "hawaii" shipments come from christmas islands. and as for orange tail emperor angels, they exists in every location in which emperor angels are found in. indonesia, philippines, red sea, christmas islands etc etc. the orange tail is just a slight variation to the normal yellow tail one. and being a variant, they can be found in all oceans. just that some areas have a higher population of these said orange tails. like christmas island. and as for the dorsal fin streamer, only pacific ocean emperors have the streamers. indian ocean emperor angels do not have the streamers. i hope this helps.

i still find this story amazing. i mean the aussies are blessed for being able to catch marginalis, muelleri, scribbled angels from shallow water. but a juvenile conspic? ridiculous!

and a super gorgeous lemonpeel hybrid

although all the above are rare, none can compete with this. Cirrhilabrus walindi. it is very closely related to it's sister species, Cirrhilabrus cenderawasih. unlike the others previously posted, this has never made it's way into the trade before. that is, perhaps until now. i can't quite make out if this photo was taken from the wild or an aquarium!

paracheilinus piscilineatus. also another rarity from mauritius!

this is a juvenile sanguineus fairy wrasse. Cirrhilabrus sanguineus. it's a v rare species from mauritius, and rare in the wild too.

these photos are taken from the wrasse magazine at coral farm! look at these super rare wrasses. this is an unidentified cirrhilabrus from bali. it's part of the rubriventralis complex.

pseudanthias flavicauda! i want!!

here's another pic of a super juvenile conspic in the wild. it looks almost like a black/white colini angelfish

this is an extremely juvenile conspic. how did this guy get into an aquarium? well, some random hobbyist was snorkeling trying to catch a seaperch. but the perch went to hide under an urchin and when he removed the urchin, he found this tiny angelfish there. but he went to catch his seaperch first and then went back to catching the tiny conspic.

the spectacular purple head helfrichi firefish from cook islands. do you know these can grow to as large as 4 inches? much bigger than the normal helfrichi gobies. and here's an interesting fact. when the helfrichi firefish was first described back in the 1970's, the very first specimen documented and described was this purple head variant. this was the original helfrichi firefish that was described to science. the normal yellow head ones that we receive from marshall islands is a variation. since the type species for helfrichi is the purple head ones. who knows? the two could be different species just not distinguished yet.

v nice! can't wait for the larger one to develop the insane bar and blue lips!

from CF? i saw something like this yesterday. the tail is quite amazing.

what is this? sorry i don't like clowns and i'm very bad with ID.

jeremy - springer can get from ORA. i want Pseudochromis sankeyi is another one from the red sea that is gorgeous and rare. captive bred ones are available but we're not able to get them for now. sadly. fuel was breeding them succesfully but dunno wt happened now. the problem with the fishes above is that some like heemstrai are not within collection range. so they don't want to collect. and Cirrhilabrus blatteus is deep water fairy wrasse. but if people are diving deeper in the philippines, vanuatu and other areas to collect, why not the red sea too? i've always wondered.

red sea offers a myriad of rare fishes for the enthusiastic collector. Pseudanthias heemstrai Pseudanthias taeniatus Paracheilinus octotaenia Cirrhilabrus blatteus Chaetodon paucifasciatus Ecsenius gravieri Apolemichthys xanthotis and there's still tons more in terms of blennies, gobies and other fishes that we are unfamiliar with!

Alright fishes!

so what are you intending to keep?

i don't know what to say. you might just be the most successful troll in the history of trolling. salute.

i won't say exhibitionism, more of wanting to share. the fish scene in singapore is very lacking in almost everything as you can see. the knowledge here is poor, the fish choice here is poor, almost everything fish related is poor. people like digiman and i are just a group of people who like fish more than others. so we post here and share more about them hoping to bring up the awareness and interest level. of course some people would think that is exhibitionism and wanting to be in the spotlight. as to why most of my posts are incomplete. i often try to do this as simple enough to encourage people into trying new fishes. i feel if it gets too wordy and scientific with all the itty bitty details, people will just get bored. you're always saying that internet and book references are nonsense and bullshit. but that is what 95% of the entire world is getting the information from (who else has an expert in their backyard where they can just call upon for help anytime? no one!). and while i agree, alot is ###### and bull, there are some good references out there. reliable sources. sources from experienced reefers in the states and from marine biologists who are willing to take the time to share on forums. we just have to take the time to separate the sources, good or bad. don't expect every reefer to know everything like you because almost no one has excess to the kind of knowledge that you do. (i.e, field experience and what not). most casual hobbyists rely in internet and books. i don't want to argue with you. it's very time consuming and nothing gets achieved. you're a man of vision and i respect that. but it's very difficult to reason with and so i'll just end it here. i don't want to create another episode like last time.