Rhinopias

Wild caught Emperor that exported from Christmas Island and a few location might have an orange tail or orange color instead of yellow. But sadly, those color would be fade away. I think that the source of an extreme color came from their food in nature. My friends have been keeping a juvenile Emperor until it transform into an adult coloration. It took them around 2 years to be complete. In my opinion, the Emperor that go through transformation in an aquarium could be as nice as the wildcaught if provided with a good quality of food and regular water changes.

Anthias is not an easy fish to keep, especially members of the Mirolabrichthys section. Dispar and ignitus are moderately hardy anthias that could be kept in captivity if provided with well maintainance and care. But the Purple Queen still remains one of the hardest anthias to kept alive in captivity (both P. tuka and P. pascalus). Some of the purple queen might started and "look'' as it is feeding, but make sure that they really "eat" not just swallow for a while and throw out the food after a second. Some of the Purple queen might adapt themselves to live in the tank, but that is a rare case. Most of them refuse to eat and die withing two months. Refugium may helps to get the purple feeding. As it is a place to reproduce copepod and other small living organism. Try to give them newly-hatch brine shrimp or other live food. Put them in a peaceful tank with no aggressive tankmate would also increase the rate of surviving.

Yes, I'm from Thailand and once kept this lion. That is Parapterios heterura It's a kind of the coolwater fishes that do best kept in the temperature below 28 c. Prone to skin infection and sensitive to low water quality and oxygen level. When first acquired, it need some live food to started them feeding like some ghost shrimps, brine shrimps (in case the fish is not too big yet). Some of my fish collection including this lionfish, Pterois miles.

Mine stay with me for about a year, living along with Angels, butterfly, & Tangs. He accept pellet, shrimp, and seafood mix

coral beauty

Fat Heraldi angel

Majestic

Emperor of the tank

My big Arabian...

Blueface, kept it since a juvenile

Here come along with the Koran First got him about 2"inches. Now...... three years past by.... big laew, but not changing yet.

This fellow too la...

Mine is unusual Bicolor Angelfish He's with me for almost 3 years

yes, it is possible if you have big enough tank with a great skimmer for a great volume of waste.

yes, I've kept it pink, white, and yellow