coralfriend

Amphiprion latifasciatus with long caudal fin form madagascar

Macropharyngodon vivienae- not very rare Same shipmen with Paracheilinus hemitaeniatus

Hi Digiman and FuEl, I am glad to hear that one fish can successfully survive. I think that small fish can deal with the shipping stress. Several months ago, there are also one ship to Hong Kong. That one is also DOA. I can not even distinguish what kind of fish it is once this fish is taken out from the box. This time there are totally 4 specimens land in Hong Kong. Nearly all of them are DOA. I have been told that the shipping time from the supplier to Hong Kong is nearly 60 hours. Other fish (wrasses is also included) are arrived quite good but not this species.

Rare fish must be share here. Unfortunately this time is a dead fish. But this fish picture is so few on internet so I also post it out here for shareing. Paracheilinus hemitaeniatus is the very first time pop up in Hong Kong market but dead on arrival. I feel very upset.

Special fish need to post here! New member of my tank!

Not a rare fish but she has a beautiful face and fin! Just for sharing!

This fish is being kept by a Tai Wan Aquarist(Stanley Shen). The picture is sent from him. The way of keeping a large group of angel fish in a bare bottom tank is not accept by majority US reefer nowaday. We can't denied that it is a traditional popular way of fish keeping in Hong Kong and Tai Wan. No matter what this is really a rare beautiful fish. Any expert can explain why Emperor angel is not likely to hybridize with other species?

Hybrid? ?cross? Beautiful fish! Isn't it?

Thanks a lot! This fish came from Indonesia shipment. I do not know any captive breed clown fish have such color, Is there any captive breed gold color ocellaris? ORA naked ocellaris is barless but have black margin and orange color. If I can keep this fish alive, I will find another half for him or her. Any suggestions?

http://youtu.be/ol3V9q91qSU Anyone know what kind of clown fish it is?

Hi digiman, Your pseudanthias rubrolineatus is in very good condition. I love it very much! Could you mind to tell me how much does it cost! It is very good to hear that they perform well at 26 degree. I also own a pair of common pseuanthais fasciatus. They are hardy. I use 20 degree to keep them and it seems to me that they behave very well. Both of these species are quite similar in appearance although they found in different depth inside the ocean. It is possible that both species can adapt a wide range of water temperature. Is it possible to get one more to form a pair? I think that the most colourful anthias is mating color anthias! My basabei is also come from Koji. It appear to eat small amount of very small size mysis when I firstly introduce into my tank. Surprisingly, it only keen on finding prey from its surrounding environment once it is acclimate inside my tank. It will chose a small size one if I buy it nowaday. I think that small size basabei may be more readily accept frozen mysis than large size basabei. I have kept reeffish for some years, I find that many informations provided by the fish supplier is not totally correct. You will know all the fact after you have experience of keeping them. I want to ask you a simple question. Do you know whether there are any Basebei still swimming inside a Hobbyist's tank. Not much, I guess!

To Digiman, I am highly appreciate your deep water tank. It is very neat and full of rare fish. I think that I mean the Gem tang from mauritus with small size is the one I refer to. Regarding the tosanoide flavofasciatus or filamentosus, the temperature of your tank may be too high. I guess that velvet is brought into my tank by Sakura anthias. It seems to me that my wrought iron butterfly and Basabei is not easily affect by velvet. Diet is a main issue of Basabei because I do not notice that my basabei accept any food. If your tank is full of live mysid or amphipod, he can survive. Basabei is a difficult butterfly to maintain in captivity.

Hi LemonLemon, My pair of personatus was in fact not a pair. The female get larger and larger. It has the tendency to change to a male personatus. I have record down the color pattern changes of the female. It's face dark region becoming bigger and bigger Therefore the existing male get use to give pressure on the female very often. They quarrel all day long. Sometimes, the female even win the battle between them. I think that it is one of the reason why the female can not come across the velvet attack! I have great desire to acquire a small size female personatus. Nowaday, personatus is less likely to obtain. I think that part of the reason is that Hawaii loss some deep diver. Less diver risk their life to catch such fish. As you know, Rufus's team prefer to catch more expensive and more readily available Pepermint than less expensive and less available Personatus. Hi Nacrosis 1, Of course, I am a reeffish lover. Kingi is one of my dream fish. I was told that some Kingi is not export from SA but east africa. It is much easily to export from the route of east africa. The Kingi come from east africa should be cheaper! I also find that the color pattern of the gem tang. There is some difference between the gem tang from east africa and SA. I like the SA gem tang more. Am I misleading by someone or is it the fact!

Dear Lemon, My name is Chung. You can just call me coralfriend! My female personatus is died about one years ago! The reason of dying is velvet attack! Tosanoides pair is also died for unknown reason! My pair of leafy seadragon is also lost about two years ago. I am also suspect of velvet attack. My technique of keeping reeffish is not really good as I lost so many valuable specimens. All others are fine. I have now one pepermint angel, male personatus, debelius, basabei,white bar boxfish, juvenile P maculosus x P chrysurus, breeding pairs of c interuptas and breeding pair of joculators, Holacanthus passer x clarion hybrid or just passer variant, dusky heraldi,...others. My photo technique is not so good. I can take some video or photos at my spare time to share with you.

There are many stories floating around. Most of the story is not fact! I don't know who is the catcher of the debelius. The story of debelius is that the catcher do not use a pin to decompress this fish. That is all I hear about this fish. The story about the Kingi is that Taiwanese took three Kingi and juvenile old woman from SA. Two Kingi never eat and perform badly. Taiwanese keep the rather small one which they thnk that it is able to accept food. The other two which is large and perform badly is sell back internationally. There was an experience hobbyist in Hong Kong who has a very good passion towards rare reef fish. He took those two kingi and one juvenile old woman through one aquarium fish dealer of Hong Kong from Taiwanese. Taiwanese charge the Hong Kong local dealer how much is a secret. But the dealer charge this gentlement a high price. It has been said that it need more than US $26000 for three fish. This hobbyist know that those two kingi condition is not good. He still want to take the risk! Of course, only the juvenile old woman can survive finally. I know that the name of famous Taiwan reeffish importer/exporter begins with a E. Taiwanese is very rich! So I think that it is the reason why all Kingi go to their hand.