Dispar_Anthias

Main topic aside. I agree that no wild caught fishes are parasites free but purchasing from shop that takes good care of their livestock such as quarantining and acclimitizing it before hand reduces most if not some of the parasites. This will at least gives the fish a fighting chance as it allows the immune system of the fish to slowly recover as all fishes that arrives at LFS suffer from long flight journey, are stressed up and thus their immune system will be at the lowest. With proper acclimitation, the fish will not be further stressed upon in its new environment and thus will have a higher chance to feed. A feeding fish usually is a thriving fish. Comparing to a shop that do not acclimitize or handle their fishes properly and adding them into tank with poor water quality exposing them to more alien parasites I believe I will pay slightly more for better quality fishes. I may end up with a fish that thrives for years compared to having a multiple that will just waste away should I get them from LFSes that do not condition their livestocks. I believe this is especially true for touchy fishes eg. Achilles Tang where i witness on many occasions reefers will paying alot more for a established and feeding fish compared to rushing down LFSes to chance upon a newly arrvied. If you speak to reefers enough, you will know that there are certain LFSes "specialise" in such finicky fishes such as Regal angels, Achilles Tang, Moorish Idols and the hit rate of getting a healthy and thriving fish with them is rather high. Additional point to note is that getting a fish from LFS with improper husbandary may end up with one biggest regret as the new livestock may bring along foreign parasites with it and you end up infecting your whole tank and killing all your established and precious fishes in a short time frame. The name would be very familiar to most reefers , "Marine Velvet". Thus I believe in terms of pricings, its always a willing buyer, willing seller and I am one who is abit more KIASU and will fork more to get a healthy livestock at a LFS with better husbandary not renowed as some renowed LFS have pretty poor husbandary. To know how good is the husbandary, you just need to look at how the lfs personnels handle the livestock when new shipment arrives.

The royal gramma at fish channel are in amazing conditions with excellent finnage & colouration. Interested party, pls head down.

Ups for the clown.

Skimmer sold, left the clownfish

A: $55

Got another smaller one from a different breeder to try and pair with the bigger one I have so smaller one gotta go

Thanks bro... Ups!

Have the below item for sale 1)H&S 150-F2000- $150, in working condition and was running for my tank before I change a new skimmer today (should be this model - rated up to 800L) 2)Picasso Clown- $100, selling the smaller one (2inches) in the picture, raised it from a tiny fellow Please sms me @ 9139 1438 to deal and collection at Potong Pasir. Thanks! PS: I have added photos for the above mentioned item. WYSIWYG

Understand thats theres only one collector in the world and he is very particular about the vendor he supply his fishes to. In Singapore, it will only be CF who will be able to bring them in.

That looks more like a bobbit worm rather than a bristle.

Arh... wasted..... Yep I understand you took the muh bigger one. Any idea what caused it?

You sold both candies?? Cos I only saw you putting 1 for sale

I see, hows ur candy?

Bingo but actually I was looking for the opercularis instead although theres not much different between the 2 fishes. Mind pm me where you bought this fish from?

I saw B. Neopercularis?

Thanks bro!

It just takes abit of patience actually. During shipment when all the helfrich are placed together, spent about abt 45mins to 1 hr to observe the fishes behavior. Usually the possible pair or the ones that are comfy with with each other will stick together and just grab those 2 and you will have a higher chance of getting 2 that is tolerant of each other. Its not a fool proof method because I have 2 that kill each other before but you just have a greater chance.

Thanks bro!

My friend wants it so it ended up on a dinner plate instead

Bro, not exactly dream fishes but just a list of fish that I would love to have.

Thanks bro, still waiting for the many zoas frag to grow out before the tank looks gd. Yes bro, the smaller Joculator is from you :thumbsup:

You can pair them up easily bro with a bit of luck. Their courtship and spawning behavior are a joy to watch!

Thanks bro, still looking for remaining dream fishes to complete my collection

Update of my tank as of today Tank Overview Tank side view Lipropoma Carmabi Helfrich Goby Picasso Clown Joculator Angel

The current supplier for Iwarna's latest caribbean shipment export only the rare and top quality fishes. Definately a worth to buy!