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    Some recent catches.... Old Woman Angelfish

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

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    Dispar that is correct, I have seen Gem Tangs that have been imported from Mauritius, they do differ to the ones I have caught locally. Recently finding small ones have been a bit difficult, they are around though, but we have huge ones as well, I'm talking huge!

    I am still waiting for a SA gem tang, the black is really black and the spots are very prominent making the contrast very obvious and beautiful. But at a size of 2-3 inches :P

    Some recent catches.... Old Woman Angelfish

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

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    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!

    I was just going through this thread slowly and saw this question about gem tang. Yes, there is a slight differences between the gem tang from Mauritius (probably E.Africa) compared the SA ones. I have kept both before, a 3inch specimen of the SA (lost her due to velvet) one and Mauritius (sold her away as i am seeking another SA specimen) one and in terms of colourations, the SA one is much blacker and has more define white spots compared to the mauritius ones. There is a thread in RC in which J. Coppolino mentioned that Mauritius Gem and SA gem looking slightly different.

    Still seeking my SA gem again but most are dinner plate size.

    My Marine lives

    in Members Tank & Specs

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    Pic do not do justice to his tank, have to see the real thing to understand the beauty of this tank and how amazing this reefer is. To have the ability to scape, placed and packed different coral species in such a confined space is just so amazing. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

    Calling Angel lover's

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

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    Hmm, firstly of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

    But for me conspic has this understated beauty about it. Just take a look at this LA pic.

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    Yep I agree with u its expensive so maybe a little hard to swallow.

    Talking about swallow, how about instead of one large angel since you hv two le, get a harem of swallowtail angels or its genicanthus friends? The interaction between them would be fun to watch. And u get 3-4 fishes instead of just one lol.

    Well if all not suitable, a regal angel will never go wrong :)

    Btw French angel is very pretty. U cant find pomfrets with specks of gold on the body. Grey angels yes look abit like pomfret but certainly not French!

    The beauty of conspics lies in the luminous edge of its fins then again its not a fish that a reefer who prefers colorful angel like those of Regal or Emperor who want to keep. IMO, conspic give a lasting look while emperor and regal gives just a wow factor on initial glance.

    Calling Angel lover's

    in FOWLR (Fish-only with Live-rock)

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    Bro nice pics and super nice interuptus pair! Btw are there any discernible difference between the male and female besides size?

    Yes, in term of difference between male and female, Interruptus show the most exceptional among centropyge aka dwarf angel. Male develop more pronouced blue throughout the head to the body while female has a more orangey face. Furthermore, male develop more blue on the end of dorsal and anal fins similar to those of flame angel.

    Best type of pellet food

    in General Reefkeeping_

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    Just curious. Is pellet feeding or frozen mysis feeding better for fish?
    Mysis are nv gd unless its PE mysis still I think loses out to pellets. Firstly, mysis run the risk of being contaminated and secondly ig you are looking to get fish start feeding, you have gd dry feed like TDO now.

    Best type of pellet food

    in General Reefkeeping_

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    Heng ah so i'm not the only one with that problem haha. It's really quite saddening when you noticed your fish colour become dull especially on a fish like yellow tang with such vibrant yellow colour.

    Try TDO, I have an adult mitratus butterfly with colours totally faded and revert back to its original state after 2 months of feeding on TDO. Even so, I always believe in mixing different kind of feeds together but you do have to visit different LFS for different feeds and they all carry differents brands.

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    Best type of pellet food

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    Not sure if it only happens to me, while feeding my fishes with ocean nutrition my yellow and blue tang colour actually seems faded.

    But it begin to colour up nicely when i stop ocean nutrition to replace with NLS and dainichi.

    Rather normal, as I have seen many reefers having same issues with ON food. Imagine having a yellow tang that is not yellow and a flame angel just orange and with no tint of red. That is why I did not include this feed into my pellet mixture if you notice. :ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:

    Best type of pellet food

    in General Reefkeeping_

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    I never believe in just replying on a single brand of pellet as you do want your fishes to have a widest variety of nutrition as possible as well as not over replying on a single type. I also agree with what bro FUEL have said, "Good pellet food does not come cheap" and so I just take the more expensive products of the shelf and combine them together. Currently, I am feeding my fishes with a combination of Danichii, Fauna Marine's "Ultra Health", 2 sizes of TDO, Dr. Bassler's Forte and Chlorella, NLS and lastly New Era Algae grazer with Fauna Marine's Ultra Health by far being the most expensive.

    The various dwarf angel pairs or harems I have kept before all spawn on regular basis and I believe largely due to the food I am feeding to them.

    Zero brace 95

    in Members Tank & Specs

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    What species of possum wrasse are you keeping?

    Are they sequential hermaphrodites?

    Mines a yellow banded (Wetmorella nigropinnata ) but till now I still see only 1 of them due to the initial aggression on the 1st day from my elongatus dottyback (caught and removed it).

    Zero brace 95

    in Members Tank & Specs

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    Nope LCK selling 3.2k buy one get one free. Still cheaper then gem tang

    Yes, Interrupta angelfish are no longer as pricey before, so its gem tang. In fact, many of the more expensive fishes that are not affected by collection issues (such as depth and location) have gone down in price. Great time to get them.

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