Red Sea Pearlscale - Chaetodon paucifasciatus

[scchase]

So that is what 4 total people with Asfurs in captivity 4 years plus and all have stopped growing at around 5-6". Interesting

 

[Big E]

Peter,

Did you lose the the second C. xanthurus? I didn't see the C. ephippium in your latest pics either.

The C. melannotus looks healthy.

 

[SDguy]

Peter,

Did you lose the the second C. xanthurus? I didn't see the C. ephippium in your latest pics either.

The C. melannotus looks healthy.

I lost my prized saddleback, both pearlscales, and THE most gorgeous multicolor angel I have ever seen (twice as many stripes on the forehead as your average specimen). Velvet is a fast, nasty killer Only the asfur and niger trigger survived, and even the asfur looked BAD for quite some time, I'm guessing due to a secondary infection after the copper.

R.I.P.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

Terrible, Peter. I can never comprehend how people take some diseases so lightly (such as velvet, or QT in general), but treat ick as if it is the worst disease ever. Anyway, clean slate, fresh start, right?

 

[SDguy]

Yeah, I had honestly forgotten how bad velvet is, not having kept a FO tank with butterflies for many years.

A friend is doing QT for me right now with some tinkers (his), and I have another QT going up today, as a matter of fact. Glad my new condo came with so much kitchen counter space :lol:

 

[Big E]

Bummer on the fish............I feel for ya. I lost three Pakastani BF's to velvet in QT last year. It was my first time ever dealing with it & I diagnosed it too late. BF's are difficult enough as it is to get acclimated without having to fight diseases like velvet.

 

[SDguy]

Bummer on the fish............I feel for ya. I lost three Pakastani BF's to velvet in QT last year. It was my first time ever dealing with it & I diagnosed it too late. BF's are difficult enough as it is to get acclimated without having to fight diseases like velvet.

So true, and yet they are notoriously susceptible to it :uzi:

 

[reefjunkie42]

what are the chances of this fish eating aptasia?

 

[tylersarah]

Orange Sea Pearlscale? I made that up, saw this guy at the lfs, he has an orange back, I'm assuming it's related to the red back.

$30. I asked him if he'd eat my reef and he said "most likely."

And this baby raccoon was cute, I wanted to put him in my pocket:

He had bumps on the white stripe part, you can see in the photo. Also $30

 

[tylersarah]

In lieu of looking like an idiot, I looked it up, Chaetodon Xanthurus. It states, "A generalized feeder on benthic invertebrates and algae." Well, I do have a lot of algae...

 

[SDguy]

paucifasciatus, xanthurus, mertensii, and madagaskariensis are all similar...

 

[Sheol]

While you guys are at it, remember that Pseudochromis fridmani is also a Red Sea endemic. Fortunately, they can be captive-bred. So sad the turmoil in that part of the World prevents old faves like Regal from being imported.

Sincerely,
Matthew