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two rare blennies. Ecsenius aroni and a male Ecsenius bathi. female E. bathi are grey with horizontal black stripes and a yellow head.

very rarely seen dottyback from an equally rare and obscure genus. Chlidichthys auratus. from the red sea. its small size and cryptic nature will probably protect it from frequent collection.

this new one seems to be dying?

beautiful barless flame at yadokari last year. this sold at $700 sgd.

beautiful. just saw your post on RC. your new kingi. how is it? properly decompressed and feeding?

Ah Benga V beautiful burgess butterfly 5.5 red notes Liopropoma collettei Many beautiful Ecsenius pictus blenny Valenciennea wardi tiger gobies. Beautiful pair

jim has a female lanceolatus.

alpha lanceolatus in the wild! and two of them! http://youtu.be/08KNonGL3_g

a very cool and unusual sand diver, but one that we'll not be likely to see in the trade. Pteropsaron longipinnis

Liopropoma latifasciatum from japan, but this individual does not have the black stripe.

purple lunatus from japan

polyzona tangs, including a tiny tiny juvenile.

some rare fish at PIA now. Full grown neopercularis hogfish from marshall islands showing very yellow stripes.

armitagei is relatively rare, but HK, US and japan get it time to time, especially in HK, where it is not rare. it has appeared here a handful of times already at CF and LCK. armitagei is the common name for the hybrid between cream and flagfin angel. being a hybrid, the fish is often very variable and depending on individual, can show more flagfin traits or more cream angel traits. there have been many examples of armitagei posted here. just do a search and you should see many for you to compare. there are two more less common "armitagei" hybrids. these are flagfin x gold flake from christmas islands, and flagfin x xanthotis from red sea.

a new video of Cirrhilabrus katoi flashing in the wild. http://youtu.be/2Twsgr7IQq4

japanese lunatus and baby bandit at LADD.

Ptereleotris uroditaenia!

depends. L. aberrans belonging to the same customer was pinned only once and did very well thereafter. this L. aurora is being pinned for the first time i believe, but no one knows if it will recover fully like the aberrans, or if it will require pinning again in the future. there have been reports of other deepwater fish requiring constant pinning about every month or 2. one such fish is P. basabei. but then again not all of them will exhibit these kind of symptoms, and it is based on a fish by fish basis. that 1 particular basabei did not survive.

that bellae i pass to you was a thug!

new tank video! watch in HD

double post.

yup.

I think it is female P. hutomoi. but i am also not sure. Hi Aray, no Luiz did not tell me. i also do not know what it looks like or what kind of Cirrhilabrus it is. for all we know it's the philippine pylei getting an official description.

Cookeolus japonicus, and an undescribed Parapercis sp.

Pusedanthias cichlops/hutomoi photographed by Luiz rocha