OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[yikai]

Nice, u know wat chromis is this?

no idea.

but nice right!

[yikai]

dunno wat goby. but looks rare.

[yikai]

digi, this will make a FINE addition to your rosae dottyback.

seriously no idea wat dottyback is this but look at the tail!

taken from the great barrier reef.

[yikai]

some sort of priolepis?

very nice!

[yikai]

2 very gorgeous hybrid lemonpeels in the wild.

omg the first one is !

[yikai]

this is gorgeous.

keep before. want to get it again if CF bring in again.

[Digiman]

whats this?

Vanderloosi angel?

Adult dimidiatus angel.

[yikai]

whole plethora of unusual and rare dottybacks.

but some are quite ugly.

[yikai]

Adult dimidiatus angel.

dunno how to diff dimidiatus from vanderloosi.

vanderloosi is from PNG i think.

[yikai]

ok finish posting the interesting ones.

got it all from this website.

alot of gobies and blennies inside. very nice.

[Digiman]

beautiful damsel and some goby that i dunno.

Chrysiptera flavipinnis, one of my favourite damsel. Common in it's habitat in australia but so rarely collected for the trade.

digi, this will make a FINE addition to your rosae dottyback.

seriously no idea wat dottyback is this but look at the tail!

taken from the great barrier reef.

OMG i love this dottyback, look at the tail and the ghastly white body is so unique!

2 very gorgeous hybrid lemonpeels in the wild.

omg the first one is !

The first one is so gorgeous and came out of vanuatu before, i'll definitely want one if any show up at vanuatu shipment.

dunno how to diff dimidiatus from vanderloosi.

vanderloosi is from PNG i think.

Yap East PNG only and never collected. From Copps: Adult C. dimidiatus have an all yellow tail. Adult C. melanosoma have a tail ringed in yellow. Both have all grey backs. C. vanderloosi has just a grey head and the tail of the melanosoma with just the yellow edge.

[yikai]

yhah the "lanceolatus" dottyback very nice.

[Terryz_]

beautiful damsel and some goby that i dunno.

This goby is my favorite.. Will never forget it.. Myersina lachneri.. The only pair in Singapore previous was with Fuel, I think he sold it..

[Terryz_]

this is gorgeous.

keep before. want to get it again if CF bring in again.

Very fierce leh... Kept before also, from CF...

[yikai]

Very fierce leh... Kept before also, from CF...

yes very fierce but only towards new residents.

this is one of my fav dottyback. i want to buy again if it comes.

females more common, grey with white tail and 2 red spots on the pelvic fins.

[Terryz_]

yes very fierce but only towards new residents.

this is one of my fav dottyback. i want to buy again if it comes.

females more common, grey with white tail and 2 red spots on the pelvic fins.

It is one of the brighter colored dottyback...

[yikai]

Paracheilinus attenuatus.

The attenuatus or diamond tail flasher wrasse. A gorgeous and lovely Kenyan species that is one of my favourites. Extremely rare in Singapore, last brought in many years ago by Harlequin. Moderately rare in the states and Japan, but still, rare!

Unique species in the family of flasher wrasses, it is the only one to have a rhomboid tail. Although rhomboidal in shape, it is not lanceolate. Dorsal fin has a dorsal filament which comprises of only one dorsal spine, a very fine hair like spine unlike the other species in the genus.

This is a gorgeous species that I hope to find one day and I do hope it makes it's re-appearance after a very long hiatus. It's simply a very gorgeous and rare flasher wrasse that not many people know about.

Flashers are over-looked because of their cheap indonesian cousins like carpenter, filament etc. But there are a handful of very very rare ones that rival the rarity of the rarest fairy wrasse!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPomx4WBUtY&feature=player_embedded#!

[yikai]

Paracheilinus octotaenia

The Eight-line or Red Sea flasher wrasse. Another super gorgeous flasher that is endemic only to the Red Sea. Also another little known species in the local Singapore market. Little known as in, if it pops up here one day, not many people will know what fish this is. It is common in the states, and Japan, but somehow, they never made it to Singapore.

Another beautiful beautiful species that I hope to see one day and acquire. Another distinct species of the entire genus. All median and unpaired fins are very rounded, when flashing, resembles a disc.

Another model organism that demonstrates the popularity in other parts of the world, but unpopularity in the local market here. Other fishes joining this list includes the Rusty x flame angelfish, Johnson's fairy wrasse (new), Roseafascia fairy wrasse, Chrysocephalus tamarin wrasse, etc.

[yikai]

biggest success with obligate coralivores!!

read it! so interesting!

http://glassbox-design.com/2010/obligate-corallivore-captivity/

[Terryz_]

biggest success with obligate coralivores!!

read it! so interesting!

http://glassbox-design.com/2010/obligate-corallivore-captivity/

That is super long... But Larvatus is one of the easiest one among the others...

[yikai]

larvatus another red sea fish we will never see here anytime soon.

[Terryz_]

larvatus another red sea fish we will never see here anytime soon.

Last time with red sea shipment, will see a few pieces... But now red sea shipment so difficult to find liao...

[Digiman]

larvatus another red sea fish we will never see here anytime soon.

Long time ago redsea larvatus always can see one or two. Until early last year i still saw one at cant remember Ah Beng or pac marine (current pinnacle) den after it goes extinct in red sea shipment. Almost two years already, all the red sea shipments that came had nothing else except for purple tang, sohal tang, and golden butterfly! The red sea supplier are so spoilt that they became so lazy to catch and target other fishes apart from the three mentioned jux now.

[yikai]

Larvatus used to be common. when i first started i saw it before. it's called the hooded butterfly. so nice.

now it can join paucifasciatus as unobtainable red sea fish thanks to all those lazy fish catchers.

[Terryz_]

Long time ago redsea larvatus always can see one or two. Until early last year i still saw one at cant remember Ah Beng or pac marine (current pinnacle) den after it goes extinct in red sea shipment. Almost two years already, all the red sea shipments that came had nothing else except for purple tang, sohal tang, and golden butterfly! The red sea supplier are so spoilt that they became so lazy to catch and target other fishes apart from the three mentioned jux now.

it was at pinnacle. saw that one..