Worlds most Beautiful Fish?????
Thought I'd share with you one of my fav fishes and possibly one of the worlds most colourful...
It's a Mandarin Dragonet It reminds me how something so ugly can be beautiful at the same time.....
Thought I'd share with you one of my fav fishes and possibly one of the worlds most colourful...
It's a Mandarin Dragonet It reminds me how something so ugly can be beautiful at the same time.....
hey mj, the mandarinfish is available here in Doha. I saw one last month in Golden Fish in Mansoora, and earlier in Beauty Fish near Partymania.
Its a REALLY pretty fish, but its a pain to keep in captivity coz of its feeding habits and an absolute lack of tolerence to water chemistry variations!!!
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Hope your trip was fun with nice catches. Did you get me a mermaid? :D
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this is a lovely fish, love the colors!!!...hubby and I saw some incredible ones last week when we were in the Maldives. He took some wonderful pictures...I'll see if I can get some to post on here.
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The mandarinfish or mandarin dragonet, Synchiropus splendidus (syn. Pterosynchiropus splendidus), is a small, brightly-colored member of the dragonet family, popular in the saltwater aquarium trade. The mandarinfish is native to the Western Pacific, ranging approximately from the Ryukyu Islands south to Australia. It is also somewhat misleadingly known as the mandarin goby, due to its resemblance to blennies and gobies. Other trade names include "green mandarinfish", "striped mandarinfish", or "psychedelic fish". The name psychedelic mandarin is also used for a closely related species, the picturesque dragonet, Synchiropus picturatus.
Mandarinfish are reef dwellers, preferring sheltered lagoons and inshore reefs. While they are slow-moving and fairly common within their range, they are not easily seen due to their bottom-feeding habit and their small size (reaching only about 6 cm). They feed primarily on small crustaceans and other invertebrates. The name of the mandarinfish comes from its extremely vivid coloration, evoking the robes of an Imperial Chinese mandarin.
Despite their popularity in the aquarium trade, mandarinfish are considered difficult to keep, as their feeding habits are very specific. Some fish never adapt to aquarium life, refusing to eat anything but live amphipods and copepods (as in the wild), though individuals that do acclimatize to aquarium food are considered to be quite hardy and highly resistant to diseases such as ich. They can not contract the disease Ichthyophthirius because they do not have the skin type that this common aquarium disease affects.
The similarly named mandarin fish, Siniperca chuatsi, properly known as the Chinese perch, is only distantly related.
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Lol Brit.. good for you..
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Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it...
She moved in with me.
lol brit... har har har
lol brutus....i'll find one for you!
I have one in my ear now. Its existence can be proven by the fact that I can clearly understand what you and MJ are saying..
QED..
I would MJ if there is a market that I can buy it from.
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Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it...
She moved in with me.
Brit this is the first time I heard this kind of fish.. Is there any proof that it exist?? I would like to see one.
Cheers mate.
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Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it...
She moved in with me.
maybe you're better off with a piranha, brutus.... lol
Really MJ... I used to have this saltwater fish tank.. I really like taking care of it.. but they all died on me.. left me all alone.. (hhhhmmm... dang.... misses fishy)
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Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it...
She moved in with me.
The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energies to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
lol brutus...
i dint get to see the babel fish... :(... but this one is gud.. its like it played wid d best colours n got it on itself.. lol
HHmmm.... Babel fish is for me then.. (hhhmmm... really like fish but fish doesn't like me..)
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Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it...
She moved in with me.
Mis Cat how come it is called green mandarin while I'm seeing a red fish,,
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Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it...
She moved in with me.
"Nemo Sniffs his Way Home"...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/29/nemo-clownfish-smell.html
Yes, that's the one.. A beautiful creature as Baldrick has shown..
Responsible for causing more misunderstandings and mayhem than most of QL put together..
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Baldrick - Qatar's answer to Google ;o)
that's why i asked him for pics.. ;)
If I'm Correct Brit, is referring to "Hitch Hickers Guide to the Galaxy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_fish
"Your born, You Live, You Die, given this premise, one can conclude since we have no control over when we are born and when we die, the only thing that matters to us should be how we live, simple really?" Mis-Cat to her philosophy Lecturer.
show us some pics brit...
Cute, but no where near as pretty as a Babel Fish..
cutie...i like the colors..