Terryz_ Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 here's more aberrant blue tangs that we've posted in the past. the full blue one is quite unique! and the other one is just slightly aberrated. THe blue one looks fake leh... LOL... Quote Member of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrel Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Does grade A maze angel ever reach our shores? What is the damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Nitro Posted October 12, 2011 SRC Member Share Posted October 12, 2011 Hmmm... I doubt some of the photos of the very colorful fishes posted. Some do looks like photo-shopped. No offense ya to those who contributed the photos whether original or copied from else where. I hoped all photos are as original as possible so at least reefers here are really looking at what are real and do have the chance to purchase if any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 12, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 12, 2011 U can rest assured of the authenticity. We've seen countless of these aberrant fishes in real life (some at least) and in multiple sources and videos depicting the same fish. You may be surprised. Some are even nicer in real life! Aberrant fishes are not diseased fishes, for those who may be wondering. They are just abnormally colored. It's an anomaly and not a disease Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Nitro Posted October 12, 2011 SRC Member Share Posted October 12, 2011 Well maybe this can be consider unique too for a frog fish? Black base, gold spots with blue finage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terryz_ Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Well maybe this can be consider unique too for a frog fish? One of my favorite... Kept one of them before... Quote Member of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Nitro Posted October 12, 2011 SRC Member Share Posted October 12, 2011 One of my favorite... Kept one of them before... Can't find one like this anymore after it had been eaten by a bigger warty. Been 5 yrs plus and still hunting for one similar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terryz_ Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Can't find one like this anymore after it had been eaten by a bigger warty. Been 5 yrs plus and still hunting for one similar! Yeah, my last one was also years back, died from overfeeding.. Quote Member of: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted October 12, 2011 Author Share Posted October 12, 2011 Does grade A maze angel ever reach our shores? What is the damage. It doesn't, sadly. But if it does, the damage won't be small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 13, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 13, 2011 this grouper from new south wales looks interesting! Hyporthodus ergastularius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 13, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 13, 2011 beautiful pair of mitratus butterflyfishes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators thomas_lim Posted October 13, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2011 beautiful pair of mitratus butterflyfishes! Stunning colors... Missed the pair i had before my tank gave way... Quote Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 13, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 13, 2011 Stunning colors... Missed the pair i had before my tank gave way... butterflies look very good in a pair! and many species mate for life so a pair is always a great way to keep them. mitratus colours become more yellow and deep as they grow bigger. i bought one from coral farm which was the size of a triple A battery. now it has grown to about twice it's size! here it is when i first bought it. it was reaaaaly tiny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 13, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 13, 2011 and here's an updated pic. sorry i just did a super quick snapshot with my phone and it's v blur. but u can see it's grown much bigger and the yellow is so much more intense. in the previous photo, the middle bar is white but now it's completely yellow as it has grown bigger and matured. the tiny juvenile eye spot on the dorsal fin is also gone now! it's not yet an adult, but it's much bigger compared to the tiny specimen i obtained exactly 9 months ago! how strange. i first got the mitratus on january 13th, and now it's october 13th! exactly 9 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member digibee Posted October 13, 2011 SRC Member Share Posted October 13, 2011 Hi Lemon, can we differentiate male/female mitratus? Would love to have a pair next time. Thanks! Quote () Happy will do ... (o_o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 13, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 13, 2011 Hi Lemon, can we differentiate male/female mitratus? Would love to have a pair next time. Thanks! all butterflyfishes are impossible to distinguish male and female genders based on appearance. your best bet will be to pair a big one and a small one together like what liveaquaria did. notice the photo on top. the smaller on is still a juvenile while the adult one is well, an adult. but the good thing about butterflies are they are rather peaceful as compared to angels and tangs. so often times adding 2, 3 or more simultaneously together will not really pose a problem. but this does not hold true to all species. i would suggest adding 2 at the same time together simultaneously. one slightly bigger than the other. if you intend to pair them. because butterflies are peaceful in general, "pairs" in our tanks may not always be male-female. sometimes male-male or female-female also possible due to their relatively peaceful nature. they don't really bother each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 well just to clear the air above as to why i don't like the genus, it's because most of the fishes are rather difficult to keep, and they grow very large. i'm not really a fan of large fishes. i prefer small kinds. but i have to say the maze pattern and colours of this fish is quite remarkable and interesting. Chaetodontoplus generally grow huge and need a lot of swimming space. And those big size one are hard to adapt and keep alive and i tend to be like u too, dislike most species from the chaetodontoplus family. However there are a few that stay small. Like Singapore angel and poliourus angel, they rarely exceed 3". I'm lucky to able to keep a poliourus angel, which is a wonderful fish that is still with me. There is another one that stay small and it is one of the rarest of the chaetodontoplus, second only to the famous Ballina angel from lord howe australia. Here it is, Chaetodontoplus Niger. A cute little angel that has not yet appear in the trade! V rare and found deep. Shallowest is about 40m in some parts of Japan water. Otherwise usually 80m and deeper. Many pics to follow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 Bodianus Cylindriatus. Found 250m and deeper in Japan and Hawaii. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators thomas_lim Posted October 13, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2011 and here's an updated pic. sorry i just did a super quick snapshot with my phone and it's v blur. but u can see it's grown much bigger and the yellow is so much more intense. in the previous photo, the middle bar is white but now it's completely yellow as it has grown bigger and matured. the tiny juvenile eye spot on the dorsal fin is also gone now! it's not yet an adult, but it's much bigger compared to the tiny specimen i obtained exactly 9 months ago! how strange. i first got the mitratus on january 13th, and now it's october 13th! exactly 9 months. Wau... very nice Quote Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jameshong Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Chaetodontoplus generally grow huge and need a lot of swimming space. And those big size one are hard to adapt and keep alive and i tend to be like u too, dislike most species from the chaetodontoplus family. However there are a few that stay small. Like Singapore angel and poliourus angel, they rarely exceed 3". I'm lucky to able to keep a poliourus angel, which is a wonderful fish that is still with me. There is another one that stay small and it is one of the rarest of the chaetodontoplus, second only to the famous Ballina angel from lord howe australia. Here it is, Chaetodontoplus Niger. A cute little angel that has not yet appear in the trade! V rare and found deep. Shallowest is about 40m in some parts of Japan water. Otherwise usually 80m and deeper. Many pics to follow: oh..no..this little cute fish has a very sharp & stunning colour ! Quote Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Goethe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member iskay Posted October 13, 2011 SRC Member Share Posted October 13, 2011 Nothing special. Hybrid Lemon Quote "Be formless... shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend..." - Lei Siu Lung (Bruce Lee) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member cool guy Posted October 13, 2011 SRC Member Share Posted October 13, 2011 Jus imagine if we could own Chaetodontoplus Niger n blackspot angel... Wow!!! Can stop buyin other fish liao... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 13, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 13, 2011 Nothing special. Hybrid Lemon very nice!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 13, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 13, 2011 i LOVE C. niger! IT'S absolutely gorgeous. i love the white pelvic fins! i've never seen those photos before! are they new? those are some of the clearest and best photos of C. niger in the wild! the next reefbuilders piece from me will be this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted October 13, 2011 Senior Reefer Share Posted October 13, 2011 Nothing special. Hybrid Lemon here are some new photos from SRS vanuatu. SRS vanuatu is a large collector from vanuatu (the largest i think) that supplies vanuatu fishes to everywhere, including singapore, via iwarna. they were the ones responsible for catching the very very very rare nigriocella dwarf angel. here's some new lemonpeel hybrids and an aberrant coral beauty. maybe we can see them in iwarna's vanuatu shipment. if victor decides to order. these photos were sent to victor's email for stock update on their latest vanuatu fishes, and were forwarded to me. so if you really like these and want to see them in the next vanuatu shipment, pls pester victor! *but don't tell him i said that. hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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