OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[yikai]

amazzzzinggg!!!

[Digiman]

Aberrant Splendid Dottyback

[Digiman]

Dejong mauritius shipment:

Pseudojuloides Xanthomos female (Rare!!)

Chrysiptera Annulata

Chromis Opercularis

[OldTownJoe]

Aberrant Splendid Dottyback

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This seems to be a juvenile. The yellow gets less intense with age.

[Digiman]

This seems to be a juvenile. The yellow gets less intense with age.

Thanks for pointing this out.

I have never seen a juvenile here in sg.

So it was not an aberrant. Sad.

[yikai]

Philippine lunatus wrasses and pintails are flooding the market now. Soon the whole world will be getting from RVS and it will no longer be as rare as they used to be.

there are more alpha males now than before.

[sherman]

Nice. Which LFS selling ?

[yikai]

Nice. Which LFS selling ?

this is form a philippines whole sale supplier.

Iwarna brought in before but females and sub males. they are not intending to bring in again.

[sherman]

So sad

[yikai]

gorgeous australian Coradion altivelis.

[Avrilovigne]

Not sure if this is rare. Recently acquired C. Balteatus.

[yikai]

Not sure if this is rare. Recently acquired C. Balteatus.image.jpg

C. balteatus is not rare, but is not common either. from Marshall islands.

are you keeping this male alone? it has lost its orange patch on the body.

[JSNEO]

Wow interesting

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[Avrilovigne]

C. balteatus is not rare, but is not common either. from Marshall islands. are you keeping this male alone? it has lost its orange patch on the body.

Yes alone. No females available. I've just put him in. Do you think the colour could return?

[yikai]

Yes alone. No females available. I've just put him in. Do you think the colour could return?

difficult.

balteatus is one species where holding colors is not too easy. best to keep with females. if its the most aggressive fairy wrasse in your tank and the most dominant, it may develop better coloration though.

so not impossible to gain back its colors.

[aray]

Lemon,

do male fairy holds it's color even in the presence of females of other fairy species..?

[yikai]

Lemon,

do male fairy holds it's color even in the presence of females of other fairy species..?

it is possible, but sometimes the females of the other species will sort out the dominance heirachy between themselves and one will emerge a male from the females. at the end of the day, you will end up with male of fairy species a), and a male of fairy species along with remaining females of the latter. unless of course the male of a) is so aggressive that under such intense pressure, females will never get a chance to morph.

male fairy wrasses can hold their color for many reasons. here are some possible scenarios.

1) by constantly displaying to other males of another species, the dominant male will display beautiful coloration. some cases the less dominant male of another species will get less colorful as it is being dominated, or sometimes the other species will exhibit heightened color as well as two species constantly pit themselves against each other.

2) by keeping the male with multiple females of the same species. this is the best way IME, and the males will regularly spawn with gravid females.

3) some species can hold colour very well even if kept alone with no other species or females, while others can never hold coloration even with females. one example of the latter is C. scottorum, while the former applies to C. jordani or C. earlei.

at the end of the day, it really boils down to the individual fish's temperament, the specific species, and its tank mates. some species will never hold coloration unless kept in a peaceful tank and it is the only species allowed to dominate, and kept with females. shy species such as C. marjorie for example. other more boisterous species can be kept with multiple other fairy wrasses of different similar genders without females and will thrive under competition, such as C. laboutei.

the best way to keep Cirrhilabrus and paracheilinus is to choose 1 or 2 species you really like, get a male and 1-2 females. this is the best way to enjoy the genus. mixing too many species together will result in messy and heightened aggression between species and will often result in one or more losing coloration or hiding.

[yikai]

here is an example of Kevin Kohen's P. piscilineatus.

this fish started out as a 3cm female and was kept without any other females of its kind. in about a year, it developed into this striking male.

it now lives with single specimens of C. roseafascia, C. exquisitus and P. octotaenia. All specimens are lone males and all attaining terminal coloration. i'm not sure regarding the flashers, but both C. roseafascia and C. exquisitus are quite aggressive as far as cirrhilabrus go, and can hold up very well without females. this will probably not happen with C. marjorie or C. lunatus for example, and they will shy away and lose coloration if kept with the same fish above.

[aray]

thanks for the insight..i know the general way to keep them....my question was based on what would happen when the species so rare that just a male suddenly turns up in the market...

it seems it would depend on the specimen's characteristic.....

[yikai]

thanks for the insight..i know the general way to keep them....my question was based on what would happen when the species so rare that just a male suddenly turns up in the market...

it seems it would depend on the specimen's characteristic.....

sadly, that's often the case now as with digiman's claire.

just pray it remains male. and remove as many unecessary cirrhilabrus, making sure its the only one around.

[yikai]

crazy orange queen

[yikai]

someone in U.S has succeeded in hawaiiensis pair!

so jealous. LFS like PIA and LADD there do offer conditioned ones which makes keeping them easier.

[yikai]

cairns marine shipment at crazy aquarium

[aray]

name of this Blenny..?

[yikai]

name of this Blenny..?

Emblemaria pandionis.

common from caribbean shipments, but gorgeous nonetheless.