The pros and cons of reef fish

[spooda420]

TG... GREAT THREAD...

Cardinal fish 7 just because he hides alot and has multi fishology...

Blue toby....8 very interesting.. eats big bristle worms

yellow tang....7 mine does not like green stuff including any algea


Coral beauty...9 great fish very active

Bar Goby.... 8 colorful..

Purple velvet wrasse....10 one of my favs.

6 line wrasse 9 eats preditory snails

Sharks 10-- if left in the ocean

humu trigger 8 only if you have a big tank.

salmon 10 great with lemon butter sauce and a 12 pack of mich. lite (but what isnt?)

once again good thread, should be a place we can rate all fish with a place for opinions!!!!

[tankgirl]

Hi fidojoe, Maybe in your tank and with your experience, the potters will be happy and live long - it's just hearsay about them, don't think I've ever seen it said in any books. Cheers & kudos & K to ya for the little guy!!!

spooda! Nice to see you. Hah!

Sharks 10-- if left in the ocean...salmon 10 great with lemon butter sauce and a 12 pack of mich. lite

You have some wonderfully interesting fish! What kind of cardinal?

[spooda420]

just a common bangii sp??

also forgot

Blue lined fox face 4 pretty boring nothing special.

[curtswearing]

Originally posted by tankgirl
Oops, forgot to add seahorses to the list I won't get for ethical reasons.

I have been researching them since the IMAC this spring in Chicago. SH's actually breed better than most of our reef fish (but if you don't take special precautions, all of their offspring will die). It is important to get an aquacultured seahorse instead of a wildcaught seahorse (often called WC on www.seahorse.org and they thankfully don't recommend them for two reasons.....we need all of the SH's in the ocean that we have and WC seahorse's do very poorly in aquariums while aquacultured SH's do quite well).

They are very demanding critters. They require dedicated tanks and a LOT of knowledge. I'm not kidding----a LOT---throw out everything you know about reef tanks----most of it doesn't apply other than how to properly cycle a tank. Some of us are ethical and won't buy a critter unless they know it isn't being sent to it's death. I think I'm ALMOST ready to buy someone's baby (i.e. not wild-caught) seahorse. I'm also thinking about a Mantis-only tank

I liked your "ethical reasons" recommendation. Hopefully, that will scare off most people. However, if you are willing to do the research and buy an aquacultured SH, they can be done. The thought of someone getting excited seeing one at the LFS and snapping one up is likely giving that SH a death sentence. And since the first couple of SH's the LFS imported sold, they will reorder them again sending more to their deaths.

[Craig Manoukian]

Have abug, size of a silver dollar, Pajama Cardinal, wy cool reef buddy!

:guns:

[tankgirl]

curts, Awesome info and wonderful link!! Thanks mucho for the great information!! I didn't even know there were tankraised seahorses. Really interesting info about seahorses on that site. (Somebody K curts for me? I couldn't, too soon, Thanks!)

spooda - boring? no way! Sounds like a great group of fish to me.

[tankgirl]

Craigy, is that a 10 for Pajamas?

[Craig Manoukian]

At least an 8!

:guns:

[fidojoe]

Originally posted by tankgirl
Hi fidojoe, Maybe in your tank and with your experience, the potters will be happy and live long - it's just hearsay about them, don't think I've ever seen it said in any books. Cheers & kudos & K to ya for the little guy!!!

HA, or lack there of!!! I probably just stumbled across something that actually works

[tankgirl]

fidojoe, Nah, you probably have a blue thumb and more experience than you think. I'm hoping your potter will live 80 years and famous people will write you to ask for your secrets, and you'll have a very lucrative income from travelling the globe to speak about your phenomenal success with these fish and the author of "Secrets of Potters Angels" which will go into the 12th printing. And, I'll be saying "I know him!". That's what I hope.