acanthurus

Oh...recently saw people in a floating seafood market here (Sai Kung, Hong Kong) buy starfish and have them slaughtered and chopped up! Apparently they are good for soup! Will try to post some pics soon...many interesting ones...BTW the pictures above look like Mainland China...but I think HK is one of the top in terms of eating unusual sea creatures!

Wow....cute! Eh BTW how big is the pinktail trigger?Looks huge from here!

Faster way to get to Tung Choi St (Fish St in HK)... Take MTR to Prince Edward MTR station, exit B... exit at the one leading to Allied Plaza...immediately after exiting look to the left and cross the road,turn right,walk straight until the end where you have to left turn...the first shops start there Other marine specialty shops worth mention in HK...they are not in the main fish area and quite far from most hotels...but I feel worth the trip if you have time: Polaris Aquarium Take the tram that goes toward Shau Kei Wan...the tram line runs through almost the whole HK island... just look out of the window and you will see it on the left...good general marine shop....lifestock generally very good,well quarantined and sometimes rare things Blue Castle Take MTR to Hang Hau MTR station...exit B1 and look for the way towards La Cite Noble or "Sun Bo Seng" in Cantonese...it's a small housing estate and the shop is right at ground floor...quite new so nothing spectacular yet...but the equipment they use is more up to date and livestock quite good...they seem quite knowledgeable too... website: www.bluecastleaquarium.com Hope this helps

Hi, well, I think the Atlantic types can be quite cheap there... I ever bought adult queen angel at SGD$150 quite long ago...not from the main fish street though...the shops in the fish street sell at higher prices for livestock...some like emperor angel and other tangs/angels also reasonable or even comparatively cheap... Red Sea livestock,on the other hand,not worth buying...ridiculour pricing

Wah... DBZ also going to be made as a movie?Anyone know the date for release worldwide? Thanks

Yah I think some solution of copper sulphate at low concentration... but still fatal to inverts... BTW anyone know any treatment for ich which can be used safely in reef tank without killing inverts? Thanks

Eh...sorry...I can't remember for sure now if the treatment I used to use before was copper... but it was some bluish liquid which you added which stained the water blue... that was for parasitic diseases, and it killed all invertebrates... I don't know if it was copper because we used to just buy it in small bottles from the fish shop and the name and instructions were all in Chinese... but what I heard during that time matched closely with the copper treatment they used to use..

Hmm...I must be out of touch after so long out of the hobby...that was the preferred treatment back in the 1990s and I used it myself...but of course never in a reef tank...that was the reason during that time no one I knew never had these tangs in a reef setup... But I saw fish in reef tanks (not Acanthurus tangs,though,more of the Zebrasoma types) recover mysteriously from a bad attack of velvet without any treatment...that was very strange

Well many people don't keep tangs like powder blue and achilles in reet tank due to their susceptibility to disease such as ich and velvet... these diseases are normally treated with copper and other chemicals that would kill all invertebrates...so the fish must be removed for treatment...but in a reef tank it is hard to catch the fish...

Gave him away when I returned to Singapore many years ago... There was a top filter as well as UG with powerhead.

The tank which he resided in...just a simple fish only setup with small bits of live rock... Surprisingly this powder blue liked to pick on the clown trigger,whom he grew up with and was bigger!

My old powder blue (this pic was sometime in 1997)...had him for 2 years 6 months, he from less than 3 inches to this size of about 7... Sorry the pic is blurred... I suck at taking photos

Let me take a guess...I forgot the family and scientific name,but issit one of those known as a "walking batfish"?

Don't really know what species is that,but I kept some edible prawns before and found that most market prawn will survive if you have a fine layer of sand where they can scavenge and good filtration.

Hi, was reading the fishing forum recently and realised I forgot to add... If any of you like fishing and plan to visit HK any time in the future, and want to try fishing in HK, let me know too,because I live just next to one of the best fishing village there Thanks