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#1 Harlequin Tusk - Beautiful fish that gets along with everyone. My kids also like its blue teeth! #2 Lunare wrasse - Also very beautiful. Very, very active but can be a terror with others. #3 pinktail and bluethroat triggers - I love triggers but these two don't have all the unwanted trigger...

nassarius, cerith and conch snails do a real good job for me. I also have bumblebees that live in the LR and keep it clean. Most of the time I never see them but turn out the lights and watch out! If you have predatory fish like I do a couple of tanks, these sand burrowing and LR hiding snails...

Bean is short for butterbean. My dad started calling my 3 year old bean shortly after he was born and it just seemed to stick!

Perhaps it is a Scopas tang. Mine is black with yellow/orange coloration to its dorsal and ventral fins. Tail fin is black also. Actually, he is more of a dark brown than a black but sounds somewhat similar to the fish you're describing. Bean

I've tried to post pics before but I've never got it to work. I'm relatively computer illiterate. I even purchased a new camera several months ago with hopes of sharing some pics on line. Maybe my wife can figure it out! Bean

I would avoid the yellow tang for now. You will need a larger tank before keeping a tang. Yellow tangs get around 7-8" and usually require alot of open space. If you placed him in there, he would most likely get stressed out and develop a disease like ich. The 2 clowns would be ok. A royal...

Mated pair of blackspot angels (Probably a misnomer since they don't have any spots but I think they are probably some of the best looking angels out there, but I rarely see anyone else with them!), a foxface, blue hamlet, arc eye hawk, scopas tang, harlequin tusk, and the pinktail and...

I probably wouldn't! Both can get pretty big and are known to terrorize their tank mates. I also thought it wasn't usually a good idea to keep multiple wrasses in the same tank but I'm not an expert. I have a harlequin tusk and always wanted a lunare but I'm afraid to do it now that my tanks are...

I have one in my 400 with a blue throat and they are wonderful. They are one of the more passive triggers and like the above poster mentioned, can be kept in reek tanks. Mine is in a FOWLR with about 700# of LR and a bunch of inverts and fish but I haven't had any problems. The are more of a...

That is the fish's normal behavior in nature. They tend to inhabit vertical walls and overhangs in their natural environment. I tried to recreate a similar environment but he has chosen a hole in a piece of LR instead. Go figure! Bean

I have purchased 400 + pounds from this site and hundreds of pounds from other online sites and have been very pleased with SWF.com. The LR has great coralline coverage and lots of stuff surviving the shipping. I have feather dusters, button polyps, snails, soft corals....never any unwanted...

The flame hawk will take out your cleaner and peppermint shrimp sooner or later. The only hope was to have your shrimp established before the hawk but that is by no means a guarantee for success. It is just the nature of the species. I've seen some folks on here successfully keep cleaner shrimp...

I've always wanted one too but decided against it when I found out that the average life expectancy is between 6mo to 1.5yr. They are awesome but they place alot of stress on your filtration and can be difficult to keep in even the most secure aquariums. I have a friend that had an octopus that...

I agree with fishy411, you probably don't have a rockfish. Most rockfishes are coldwater species that wouldn't live long in a tropical marine aquarium without a chiller. I use to live in CA as a teenager and was a deckhand in So. California and we would catch various rockfish during the winter...

What fish are in your tank already? Sixlines are great fish. I actually purchased one a few years back before researching them and he was the second fish added to my 100g but I never had a problem. I have heard that they can sometimes terrorize later additions like the above poster mentioned...

Undulate, What kind of trigger and snails do you have? My tank looks void of a clean up crew until the lights go out and then my tank explodes with life and the best part is that my triggers are sleeping. My success may be partially due to the fact that my triggers (Bluethroat and pinktail) are...

Usually a bad idea to mix hawks and shrimp. There are a few folks on the board that have successfully kept them together...I've seen some pics of a flame hawk being cleaned by a shrimp floating around on here somewhere but I don't think that it's the norm. I have a falco, flame, and a spotted...

What has worked for me is a variety of snails that remain hidden during the daytime in the LR and DSB such as Nassarus, Cerith and Bumblebee....they keep the tank clean but they are working when your invert predators are sleeping. I have hermits too but my fish have always left them alone. I may...

Here is my question; I need help on how to move my tanks. My house is under construction and I am condensing my tanks into two 210g's. The problem is that I wan't to use my rock, sand and some of the water to cycle the new tanks. Can my fish live in 40g plastic bins with a powerhead, heater and...

For me it's the; 1. Harlequin Tusk 2. Bluethroat trigger 3. Lunare wrasse 4. Tangs (Sailfin,purple....doesn't matter which one) 5. Lyretail angelfish Just some of my favorites! Bean