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Finicky is a good word. I have had one for over a year, it still will not touch prepared food. All it eats is live ghost shrimp. Putting a feeding stick in the tank will cause it to run and hide although it will eat live food from my hand. other than that though they are a really good fish...

this is going to be a FOWLR with maybe some hardy soft corals fragged from my tank in the future. Mostly fish though(she has eyes on my filefish heheh).

Hello, I am setting up a new tank for someone and decided to look at something different than my current setups. After reading a quick paragraph in a fishkeeping magazine about filtration I saw these as being highly recommended. Whose uses them and how effective are they? What is a good brand...

There are other lions that will do better for a 75 than a Vols. An antennatta is a bright colored lion that will not fade in color like a volitans and does not get quite as large either meaning other fish will be safer. You still have to be careful however as lions grow extremely fast. If you...

There are a few odd thousand species of isopods, many of them non-parasitic. I have seen the bad ones in action and if they havent latched on to a fish so far then you should not have any problems. I had a bait bucket with half a dozen killifish and a couple unattached isopods(bad kind), within...

I think actually its only online websites you arent supposed to mention, LFSes are ok since they arent direct competition.

None that you can post on this site, competition and all heheh.

We learned in my marine biology class last semester it was a French research facility which actually flushed it down the drain by mistake. It only takes a little bit of this stuff to survive and wreak havok, so much as a little piece of stem or blade. I am not so sure but I remember hearing...

Get the smallest trigger you can(barring big enough not to get eaten by the grouper). I have noticed that some fish fail to realize they are bigger than their neighbors when they start small. I had a lion do that for a long time, then switched tanks, then awhile later switched back and his...

I got two from a shrimp trawl. Neither of them fared well. I believe it was stress from the net. beautiful ugly fish though, they appear very fragile though so good luck with them. I saw them on sale at one site for like $200 and about croaked. We catch them on every shrimp trawl I have ever...

I had this problem feeding my Sea Robin with a bunch of filefish in the water. Fast little buggers. Basically I learned to use two sticks, one for the food and one for crowd control. Funnily enough the robin got so used to the stick it would ignore the food at the bottom and swim up the stick to...

If it is a Volitan lion or most of the Pterois genus, you will want a bigger than 55 gallon tank seeing as they will reach full 15" in less than 18 months.

There are some odd colormorphs out there, I have even seen pics of blue and white and green and white lions but these oddballs are few and far between. The pics I saw were from Japanese aquariums. Also on an oddball fish like that which actually makes it to the US the price is going to be...

Yeah lions have a sting, but dont worry about it, they arent nothing compared to a stoney's. I didnt know we had any bases in Micronesia, whats it called?

Yeah just ignore most information about fish on vender websites, it is usually just trash they write to sell the fish and rarely of any real informative value, vender area of this website included. Forums are where you find true good info. If a vender says that a fish is very difficult to keep...

I havent seen any stone fish that max out at 7". It might be something they are calling a stonefish. Thats alot of predatory fish in a 90 gal, just because they are so extremely messy so hopefully you have some really good filtration, especially if you want a tang of any kind. And by the way...

I stopped reading after the first ten or so posts and realized this is getting ridiculous. Hands down, the absolute minimum for EVEN THE SMALLEST species of shark is 180. Thats bare minimum. You should go larger. Sharks are not oversized damsels, do not think you can treat them as such by...

Plus you can use it to create surface aggitation increasing dissolved oxygen. This will also make your fish more active.

Its really bad for your fish's long term health.

I second the parasitic infection or the idea that something is wrong. As far as eating copepods, pretty much any fish will munch on them if they get a chance, they are the trail mix of the sea for fish, cant eat just one handful heheh. What you might try is a cleaner shrimp or cleaner goby...