OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[Terryz_]

red?

this particular one is a washed out pink! but the red margins quite nice.

this isn't a good photo and a good specimen.

My bad, I mean the one I saw at Ah Beng... It is very red with the red ring on the eye...

[yikai]

nice and seldom seen wrasses for sale at LADD today.

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LADD's Interruptus angel

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one of LADD's first rusty flame. now it's so common

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LADD's izu cardinalfish.

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LADD's pair of conspic angel.

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LADD's pair of P. aya.

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LADD's cook island helfrichi.

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LADD's choati wrasse pair.

Males have a blue spot behind the operculum.

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LADD's P. guyanensis, trio of ventralis, tri of ventralis (1 changing), P. aya x P. guyanensis hybrid, SUPER RED L. carmabi, C. katherinae!! and a group of v rare A. townsendi.

[Digiman]

nice and seldom seen wrasses for sale at LADD today.

What wrasses are these and from where?

LADD's cook island helfrichi.

This is awesome, someday i'll get it! Hope steven is hearing this.

LADD's P. guyanensis, trio of ventralis, tri of ventralis (1 changing), P. aya x P. guyanensis hybrid, SUPER RED L. carmabi, C. katherinae!! and a group of v rare A. townsendi.

The male katherinae looks a lot like balteatus. The townsendi is my number one most wanted cardinals. Hope steven or RB will bring in one day.

[Digiman]

Look at this two high grade lemonpeel hybrid:

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A pail of vanderbilt chromis and a mauritius CB!

[Terryz_]

A pail of vanderbilt chromis and a mauritius CB!

:ooh:

Nice Mauritius Coral Beauty...

[yikai]

What wrasses are these and from where?

This is awesome, someday i'll get it! Hope steven is hearing this.

The male katherinae looks a lot like balteatus. The townsendi is my number one most wanted cardinals. Hope steven or RB will bring in one day.

the first wrasse is Oxycheilinus nigromarginatus from fiji and the 2nd one is an initial phase of Halichoeres hartzfeldii from indonesia.

the katherinae looks like balteatus but there's clear differences too. balteatus is black top, white bottom with an orange patch.

[yikai]

young male roseafascia on DD today.

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rare blackfooted lionfish.

[Terryz_]

The male katherinae looks a lot like balteatus. The townsendi is my number one most wanted cardinals. Hope steven or RB will bring in one day.

Dun this one looks like the "female" Balteatus we saw at CF on Monday?

[yikai]

Dun this one looks like the "female" Balteatus we saw at CF on Monday?

female balteatus is very very rare in the trade. females are very seldom brought in. but CF and iwarna bring in few times before.

the picture posted by LADD is definitely NOT a female balteatus... female balteatus are just drab rusty red with a whitish belly with faint brown lines near the head.

katherinae is red with a white belly and a thin green margin on the dorsal region.

the picture by liveaquaria is a male katherinae, final!! NOT BALTEATUS!!!

anyway katherinae and balteatus are very similar and closely related.

this is male and female balteatus. doesnt look anything like katherinae.

females of BOTH katherinae AND balteatus however, look similar. difference is female katherinae have yellow dorsal area.

[yikai]

this is female katherinae. see the yellow dorsal area?

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anyway..

here's a v rare pipefish from japan.

Maroubra yasudai

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Parablennius laticlavius

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the fantastic and ultra rare japanese scooter blenny. i've posted a few pictures of them before.

this fish is offered in Bluehabour's and other japanese stocklist. it's available if you want, and can be ordered in. but it's cold water species that will not do well in our tanks.

Neosynchiropus ijimai

[Terryz_]

female balteatus is very very rare in the trade. females are very seldom brought in. but CF and iwarna bring in few times before.

the picture posted by LADD is definitely NOT a female balteatus... female balteatus are just drab rusty red with a whitish belly with faint brown lines near the head.

katherinae is red with a white belly and a thin green margin on the dorsal region.

the picture by liveaquaria is a male katherinae, final!! NOT BALTEATUS!!!

anyway katherinae and balteatus are very similar and closely related.

this is male and female balteatus. doesnt look anything like katherinae.

females of BOTH katherinae AND balteatus however, look similar. difference is female katherinae have yellow dorsal area.

Yup, I know... Just that the katherinae looks so like the female balteatus at CF... LOL... But again, I only took a few glance at the female balteatus, so cant really remember the detail, only know it dun have the yellow patch and it is not really that red either, maybe a morphing male bah...

[yikai]

Yup, I know... Just that the katherinae looks so like the female balteatus at CF... LOL... But again, I only took a few glance at the female balteatus, so cant really remember the detail, only know it dun have the yellow patch and it is not really that red either, maybe a morphing male bah...

if it's not that red means it's balteatus. if it doesn't have the yellow band just below the dorsal fin, it's not katherinae also.

female and male katherinae is very red.

anyway katherinae now is unobtainable. It's found only in Japan and Guam. there's no more collection in Guam, so Japan is the only way you can get C. katherinae now. But forget it lah, none have been collected and i don't think they even bother about it.

it's a very common fish and found in shallow water, 10-40m.

Alot of people mix up katherinae with the temminckii complex and balteatus. but i've not seen a true katherinae yet, even in RC. Only the one LADD posted.. maybe someone still has one? Guam collection was still going on few years ago.

Snorvich from RC has a katherinae but i've not seen a photo of it. so dunno if it's the real katherinae or some other temmincki complex.