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I know that a lot of people are going to disagree with me and not be too pleased that I am spouting off "bad advice" but I personally have never quarantined my fish. Ah- I take that back. One fish I have quarantined- a male pink anthias. He eventually died, but that was completely my mistake as...

Actually, you're quite wrong. At the point that I lost all my fish before, it had been several months since a new fish had been added. I don't add new fish to my tank often, and while I do not quarantine I am careful and slow in acclimating. Not everyone who owns a saltwater tank also has the...

I have a very tiny dwarf lionfish in my 55-g. He has been in there for just over a week right now. When I put him in, beautiful. He had beautiful colors and seemed lively. I did not attempt to feed him that night. Since then, I tried to feed him frozen krill but he won't take frozen food yet. He...

When I worked at an LFS we got Rainford's in once in a while. However, we were never able to keep them alive for some reason. We had really good luck with virtually everything else- but for some reason every single Rainford's that we got in did not live long enough to be sold. So, I am just...

We routinely stock foxfaces in the pet store where I work. They seem to be a hardy fish, as they have lived for months on end before being bought from our tanks. A co-worker of mine was once accidentally stung by one of these fish as he rearranged some rocks in a tank. He didn't seem too...