OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[Digiman]

Lots of juvenile clarions and wrought irons at BH

A very old prognathode guyanensis butterfly

A big changing female tosanoides anthias (eating all kinds of pellets)

An unusual import with the clarions. Lactophrys trigonus boxfish

[Digiman]

Blueharbor Shop Tour II

All the deepwater and rare fishes. Clarions, wrought irons, squirei harem, chromis sp, guyanensis butterfly, tosanoides pair, lipogramma evides and klayi, peppermint hogfish, sagamiensis basslet, lipogramma sp, narcosis and peppermint angel etc.

[Digiman]

Next up koji brought me to one of his customer's tanks.

The famous doctor's rare fish collection!

He has a specialised setup to keep ultra rare deepwater fishes in the best condition. The system is comparable to the standard of public aquarium. Very expensive and innovative.

This is my favourite tank! I spent over an hour watching this tank.

[Digiman]

Doctor also kept three very impressive SPS tanks. One of which (the smallest tank) house the resplendent angelfish. A wild caught and one of the oldest living resplendent angelfish.

[Digiman]

During the visit at doctor's clinic. His liopropoma aurora was having decompression problem and koji took the chance to show me how he needle the fish (this is the 3rd time the fish is being needled).

A badly bloated liopropoma aurora

Here is Koji doing the needling with so much confidence. I held my breath when he pierced the needle into the belly.

And here is the fish after the needling. Swimming back to normal.

[aray]

it is surprising that a fish has to be pinned periodically...!!

[yikai]

it is surprising that a fish has to be pinned periodically...!!

depends.

L. aberrans belonging to the same customer was pinned only once and did very well thereafter.

this L. aurora is being pinned for the first time i believe, but no one knows if it will recover fully like the aberrans, or if it will require pinning again in the future.

there have been reports of other deepwater fish requiring constant pinning about every month or 2. one such fish is P. basabei. but then again not all of them will exhibit these kind of symptoms, and it is based on a fish by fish basis. that 1 particular basabei did not survive.

[Harlequinmania]

Next up koji brought me to one of his customer's tanks.

 

The famous doctor's rare fish collection! 

 

He has a specialised setup to keep ultra rare deepwater fishes in the best condition. The system is comparable to the standard of public aquarium. Very expensive and innovative.

 

This is my favourite tank! I spent over an hour watching this tank.

Thanks for sharing. Did u took some photos of his equipment setup as well? Bet many like me would be Curious to know.

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[yikai]

japanese lunatus and baby bandit at LADD.

[yikai]

a new video of Cirrhilabrus katoi flashing in the wild.

http://youtu.be/2Twsgr7IQq4

[Avrilovigne]

Hi lemon, is armitage angel rare? Besides color, what are the differences between armitage and flagfin?

[yikai]

Hi lemon, is armitage angel rare? Besides color, what are the differences between armitage and flagfin?

armitagei is relatively rare, but HK, US and japan get it time to time, especially in HK, where it is not rare.

it has appeared here a handful of times already at CF and LCK.

armitagei is the common name for the hybrid between cream and flagfin angel. being a hybrid, the fish is often very variable and depending on individual, can show more flagfin traits or more cream angel traits. there have been many examples of armitagei posted here. just do a search and you should see many for you to compare.

there are two more less common "armitagei" hybrids. these are flagfin x gold flake from christmas islands, and flagfin x xanthotis from red sea.

[yikai]

some rare fish at PIA now.

Full grown neopercularis hogfish from marshall islands showing very yellow stripes.

[yikai]

polyzona tangs, including a tiny tiny juvenile.

[yikai]

purple lunatus from japan

[yikai]

Liopropoma latifasciatum from japan, but this individual does not have the black stripe.

[yikai]

a very cool and unusual sand diver, but one that we'll not be likely to see in the trade.

Pteropsaron longipinnis

[Digiman]

a very cool and unusual sand diver, but one that we'll not be likely to see in the trade.

Pteropsaron longipinnis

Super cool deepwater nano fish from indonesia. Max length 3 cm. But yes so deep that it's out of diver's collection depth.

RB posted a v nice pic of this fish in Jun 2012.

[yikai]

alpha lanceolatus in the wild! and two of them!

http://youtu.be/08KNonGL3_g

[yikai]

jim has a female lanceolatus.

[Digiman]

alpha lanceolatus in the wild! and two of them!

So beautiful!

But after seeing a huge alpha male roseafascia at iwarna, i think it is just as nice!

[yikai]

beautiful barless flame at yadokari last year.

this sold at $700 sgd.

[situs-sk2]

My eyes is hurting to see so many colourful nice fishes

[Digiman]

HK Sealife

Rare Dolosus butterfly fish

Not one but 3 hybrid Mac x Koran angelfish

[Digiman]

Small Clarions everywhere in japan (We can find one at LCK too!)