Saltwater Tropical Fish

Yellowtail Blue Damsel

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:57:11 -0700

Damsels are good fish for the cycle process and are cute while they are young or juvenile. When they age, like people, they lose their vibrance and become a little more cranky. I house 2 of them now, a yellowtail and a velvet in a 55 gallon reef tank. I was going to trade or sell the damsels after the cycle process was completed but I noticed them eating algae off the rocks in between the zoas and the paly's that the turbo snails can't get at so I am thinking now that I may keep them around. Typically they hate anything new in their space but mine seem oddly docile...they don't attack other fish, even new tank mates. They do go after the snails and my hermit crabs but I can't tell if it is an aggressive lunge or if they are eating off the shells. It appears as though they are just picking stuff off the shells. Conserve the reefs..propagate your corals.
Ryan

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Zebra Moray Eel

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:57:11 -0700

I have a zebra moray and find him to be extremely easy to feed, in fact hand feed. He loves to eat prawns and will come completely out off his hiddy hole to get them.
Anonymous

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Cowfish

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:43:24 -0700

Cowfishes are by far the coolest fish ever! We have one named helicopter that's been with us for 4 months, but already he has expressed himself to us. I've never seen a fish that actually has a personality. He is so brave and one can actually pet him. Yes he is great and does love to eat. He has parasites though, and doesn't let the cleaner wrasse or cleaner shrimp clean him. What should I do?
Fernanda

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Neon Velvet Damsel

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:12:31 -0700

It's been two years since I got my first blue 'Devil' Velvet Damsel and I would like to say that the fish has been a pain in the butt. 'Devil' eats all the food I put in the tank, leaving no food for my other fish. Always pushing them around, everytime I add a new rock it's moved, and my sand is dug out from under the rocks so he can swim from one side to the other. Everytime I fix it, 'Devil' digs out the sand again. He's tried to bite on two occasions and the little guy has teeth. What can I say, I love the little guy, just wish he would just relax a bit.
anthony

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Porcupine Puffer

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:10:15 -0700

I love the porcupine fish because it is as cute as a puppy. I hope to have one in my tank. I think that my tank is just nice for him, in my tank I have a clownfish and a red tail file fish. I wish that my wish will come true.
lego man

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Neon Velvet Damsel

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:32:32 -0700

In many ways, this fish will simplify your tank and save you money--because you'll stop buying anything he can destroy or kill. It was one of the first fish I bought when a started a salt tank. He was so small and cute and colorful. "Jaws" is now close to 6". This is definitely a fish with OCD. He can't stand change. If I put a new small pebble anywhere in my large tank, he will knock it off--and will literally try to push it out of the tank by trying to nose it up to the top. Jaws lives with a clownfish, a small yellow tailed damsel, a small black and white striped damsel, and a yellow angel. And, THOSE he is fine with. All is peaceful. But if I tried to add anything else--an anemone, another fish, a coral, etc.--it would be destroyed or killed within five minutes. He's an AWFUL fish . . . but I love him (just like you would an old cranky uncle).
Karen

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Sohal Tang

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:00:03 -0700

I have just added a sohal to my tank, 75 gal. It houses an ashfur angel, purple tang and a blonde tank. They all get along perfect, they're all around 3-4 inches in size. I have them in a well set up reef tank, the four fish together, just incredable. I plan to get a golden butterfly to wrap it up, wish me luck.
thomas fabin

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Catalina goby

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:21:54 -0700

The term for when a fish changes its gender is sexual diamorphism. These are a great temperate species but are very territorial. So make sure their line of view is disrupted as they go by an "out of sight, out of mind" way of thinking although some bickering will always occur.
Anonymous

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Scribbled Angelfish

Sun, 31 May 2009 03:12:03 -0700

I have been very lucky with this angel, he has done really well in my tank. Very easy to keep. Not always had the best water quality and this angel has gone through nitrates and ammonia and never had a problem with him. And he has a brilliant peronality also.
jack kerr

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Blue Tang

Wed, 27 May 2009 23:51:41 -0700

Regal tangs are cute, clever and nice looking. Last week I bought one from a pet shop in china town. It was very skinny at first but after lots of feeding it finally grew bigger. I feed it with fish food, vegetables, and prawns.
Thomas

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