Hong kong LFS.

[yikai]

Want to see some rare fish?

Day 1 in Hong kong and i paid a visit to gold fish street.

Hong kong is famous for big angels and butterflies.

but first. look at how identical the MTR system there is similar to our MRT system!

singapore copy?

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I'll skip all the boring non fish stuff.

this is how the people sell their fish in gold fish street.

most of the fishes are hung outside to sell.

freshwater ones.

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Heres a very very rarely seen hogfish in Singapore.

Bodianus speciosus.

It hails from African shipments but our shipments do not carry this fish.

Gorgeous beauty but will grow to 40cm. not suitable for out aquarium.

very abundant in Hong Kong!

i've attached an internet picture incase my lousy photos are not clear enough

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This is one of my favourite butterflyfishes.

Chaetodon auripes. The oriental butterflyfish.

You will NEVER see this fish in Singapore. It's very common in the waters of Taiwan and thailand and it's eaten as a food fish.

attached a google image incase mine is too blurry

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Burgess butterflyfish (Chaetodon burgessi) often trickle in onesies or twosies during Philippine shipments in singapore.

Not rare, but nowhere near common.

Look at the number of them in Hong Kong! at least 30 of them in ONE LFS!

and many ultra large show size emperor angels and queen angels. the honkies really love their angels!

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many large angels everywhere.

cortez, annularis, emperor, meredithi, queen, blue, africanus are common sights.

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conspic angels are very common too.

i saw at least 10 of them today. scattered around a few shops.

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OK this fish is SERIOUSLY RARE! for those who don't know, it's a hybrid maculosus and koran angel from Red Sea.

this hybrid is very rare but a few have been brought in before, most end up in Hong Kong.

it's an honour to see this fish in person.

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Bellus angels are so abundant.

look!

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large show size xantocephalus butterflies for sale.

These rare butterflies are from the Maldives and occasionally one or two will appear from CF's maldive shipments.

but large show size pieces like this never come in before and they're really super nice.

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juvenile pure blue africanus angels are not rare too.

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the adults are even more common!

africanus angels are staple here and they are everywhere!

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Robustus butterflies and chrysurus angels flood the scene when i step into an LFS.

So many of them!

robustus butterflies almost never appear in Singapore. the last time they appeared was recently, iwarna's africa shipment. before that sealife brought in a few times.

very rarely brought in.

angels and butterflies are so popular in HK!

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don't be fooled by these maculosus angels.

they are juvenile and from the photo, you can only see about 5?

but there are at least 50-60 of them everywhere!

their shipment sizes are insane and literally bring in hundreds of the same fishes.

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I was super excited when i saw this for sale.

chaetodon mesoleucos, the white faced butterflyfish.

forget about seeing this in singapore. they come from the red sea but our local red sea suppliers never bring this fish in.

i'm very happy to see that there were more than 10 there. i will bring back a few on saturday and hopefully there will still be some left for me to buy on saturday.

3 more days to go.

i did not take any photos of them at the shop but here are some google pics.

i adore this fish!

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it was red sea and africa shipment season at HK because many of the shops carried fishes from these locales.

their red sea and africa stocklist is very very impressive compared to ours! half of the fishes in HK we never get to see. HK's buying power for angels and butterflies really very strong.

for example.

HK's red sea fishes include (those that i saw)

- white face butterfly (more than 10)

- larvatus butterfly (more than 10)

- asfur angels (too many to count. seriously. maybe 50-60?)

- maculosus (too many to count too. even more than asfur)

- golden butterflies (30-40? many!)

- sohal tang

- purple tang

HK's africa shipment

- bodianus speciosus hogfish (pictured above.)

- africanus angels (too many to count. from tiny blue juveniles to xxxxxl show size)

- rainbow coris wrasse! very nice and veryy rare (coris atlantica)

- robustus butterflies

- MACULOSUS X KORAN ANGEL --->> SUPER SUPER SUPER RARE

- chrysurus angels

[CFOh]

Lemon, Any resplendent angel spotted? Cheers...

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HK sell many corals too.

i don't have many coral pics but i will take more soon and show you.

their SPS are very cheap and come in huge huge colonies. but too bad cannot buy back.

anyway here's a tank full of super suns, regular suns and balanophyllia for sale.

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very nice pulsing xenias.

This is xenia elongata but it's a very rare form with thick trunk like stems and golden-orange polyps.

GO used to bring them in last time and i got them before. but now don't see them anymore.

i love love them alot and they are so nice!

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a nice display tank with many SPS.

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ok that's all for today.

will take more pics tomorrow.

[yikai]

Lemon, Any resplendent angel spotted? Cheers...

resplendent angels!?

illegal and cannot be caught and sold. any that appear in the trade are illegally caught or obtained via special string pulling haha.

cannot find them in Hong Kong. but Japan, yes.

recently 2 were sold in Japan. Bluehabour was selling them.

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You can't bring those fishes back to Singapore?

[yikai]

You can't bring those fishes back to Singapore?

i can.

but some of the fishes are way too big to transport.

i'm only allowed maximum 3L of water.

so i'll only bring back some smaller fishes.

i'm bringing back the white faced butterflyfish. i'll bring back some so i share here and introduce some to our market. this fish is very rare here and any butterflyfish lover would definitely want to buy it.

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