OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[yikai]

waaaa pauci!

[Johan]

Redsea shipment in HK. So many rare stuff.

Wild bicinctus pair, redsea regals, 2" to 3" pauci butterflies

What a nice pictures indeed!

After 36 hours w\swimming in low PH, high urine in the water and at complete dark undergoing shock and stress. Take the fish from the bag, put it in your hand out of the water and F L A S H .. the camera.

Are we forgotten that a fish eye is 11 times more sensitive than the human..

O well, it is only a fish right.........And once paid for it you OWN that fish life ,right???

To be frank with all you hobbyist.... This would NEVER happen in Europe or the USA It is a habit among Chinese only!!

[yikai]

What a nice pictures indeed!

After 36 hours w\swimming in low PH, high urine in the water and at complete dark undergoing shock and stress. Take the fish from the bag, put it in your hand out of the water and F L A S H .. the camera.

Are we forgotten that a fish eye is 11 times more sensitive than the human..

O well, it is only a fish right.........And once paid for it you OWN that fish life ,right???

To be frank with all you hobbyist.... This would NEVER happen in Europe or the USA It is a habit among Chinese only!!

actually,

there are some photos of people taking photos of fishes out of the water from the U.S and europe, believe it or not.

although not as much as asians do and majority of out of water photographs are taken in taiwan, hong kong and japan.

i agree it doesn't do the fish good and it's bad. but that's just the way things work out in asia.

[Johan]

Asia well all know there are Asian people among the European and USA citizen as well......

Buddha teaches to show respect to all living creatures... Hmmm.... Guess it is the same as with Christianity... all went up in smoke....

[Eniram]

I guess most asian countries are having the Chaetodon paucifasciatus except ours huh.....

[Johan]

I guess most asian countries are having the Chaetodon paucifasciatus except ours huh.....

It can be obtained from Aquarmarine in Sri Lanka... the foremost exporter of Sri Lanka . Andy always has been having Red Sea items, even when the entire region was closed.

I know MAJOR importers that buy from him......

[Digiman]

I guess most asian countries are having the Chaetodon paucifasciatus except ours huh.....

Every three or four months or so we see many redsea shipments. And almost every LFS in singapore bring in redsea shipment.

They will send us all butterflies like mesoleucos, semilarvatus and larvatus, except for pauci. That's extremely annoying.

But never mind, there are rarer fishes i'm looking for that never appear here, so pauci is just one of them.

[Terryz_]

For Members who have pmed me regarding the racist post by Johan, I have already hid the post and sent a warning pm to Johan..

Thanks...

[yikai]

Every three or four months or so we see many redsea shipments. And almost every LFS in singapore bring in redsea shipment.

They will send us all butterflies like mesoleucos, semilarvatus and larvatus, except for pauci. That's extremely annoying.

But never mind, there are rarer fishes i'm looking for that never appear here, so pauci is just one of them.

red sea offers a myriad of rare fishes for the enthusiastic collector.

Pseudanthias heemstrai

Pseudanthias taeniatus

Paracheilinus octotaenia

Cirrhilabrus blatteus

Chaetodon paucifasciatus

Ecsenius gravieri

Apolemichthys xanthotis

and there's still tons more in terms of blennies, gobies and other fishes that we are unfamiliar with!

[Eniram]

Not forgetting the pseudochromis springeri...missed the chance when I saw it.

[Digiman]

Pseudanthias heemstrai

Pseudanthias taeniatus

Paracheilinus octotaenia

Cirrhilabrus blatteus

Chaetodon paucifasciatus

Ecsenius gravieri

Apolemichthys xanthotis

Add on the red sea regal angel to the list above.

If one day the whole world tell the red sea collectors we don't want purple tang anymore! Den perhaps it will force them to start hunting for the fishes above.

[Digiman]

Not forgetting the pseudochromis springeri...missed the chance when I saw it.

I prefer pseudochromis sankeyi.

But both springeri and sankeyi have been captive bred. But no LFS wants to bring in...

[yikai]

Pseudanthias heemstrai

Pseudanthias taeniatus

Paracheilinus octotaenia

Cirrhilabrus blatteus

Chaetodon paucifasciatus

Ecsenius gravieri

Apolemichthys xanthotis

Add on the red sea regal angel to the list above.

If one day the whole world tell the red sea collectors we don't want purple tang anymore! Den perhaps it will force them to start hunting for the fishes above.

jeremy - springer can get from ORA. i want Pseudochromis sankeyi is another one from the red sea that is gorgeous and rare. captive bred ones are available but we're not able to get them for now. sadly.

fuel was breeding them succesfully but dunno wt happened now.

the problem with the fishes above is that some like heemstrai are not within collection range. so they don't want to collect. and Cirrhilabrus blatteus is deep water fairy wrasse. but if people are diving deeper in the philippines, vanuatu and other areas to collect, why not the red sea too?

i've always wondered.

[Eniram]

Maybe someone with supply experience could enlighten us further.

[kueytoc]

First Class...★☆★...hybrid PEARLIE Dewdrop

[yikai]

First Class...★☆★...hybrid PEARLIE Dewdrop

what is this?

sorry i don't like clowns and i'm very bad with ID.

[kueytoc]

I'm trying to 'dissect' its genomes cos' never see such nice hybrids before.

what is this?

sorry i don't like clowns and i'm very bad with ID.

[yikai]

I'm trying to 'dissect' its genomes cos' never see such nice hybrids before.

from CF?

i saw something like this yesterday.

the tail is quite amazing.

[kueytoc]

PINNACLE...was told this sample batch was 'special' which I fully agreed.

from CF?

i saw something like this yesterday.

the tail is quite amazing.

[yikai]

the spectacular purple head helfrichi firefish from cook islands.

do you know these can grow to as large as 4 inches? much bigger than the normal helfrichi gobies.

and here's an interesting fact. when the helfrichi firefish was first described back in the 1970's, the very first specimen documented and described was this purple head variant. this was the original helfrichi firefish that was described to science.

the normal yellow head ones that we receive from marshall islands is a variation. since the type species for helfrichi is the purple head ones.

who knows? the two could be different species just not distinguished yet.

[yikai]

this is an extremely juvenile conspic.

how did this guy get into an aquarium?

well, some random hobbyist was snorkeling trying to catch a seaperch. but the perch went to hide under an urchin and when he removed the urchin, he found this tiny angelfish there. but he went to catch his seaperch first and then went back to catching the tiny conspic.

[yikai]

here's another pic of a super juvenile conspic in the wild.

it looks almost like a black/white colini angelfish

[yikai]

pseudanthias flavicauda!

i want!!

[yikai]

these photos are taken from the wrasse magazine at coral farm!

look at these super rare wrasses.

this is an unidentified cirrhilabrus from bali. it's part of the rubriventralis complex.

[yikai]

this is a juvenile sanguineus fairy wrasse.

Cirrhilabrus sanguineus.

it's a v rare species from mauritius, and rare in the wild too.