candaceswf
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This little guy is one of my favorites. It's a Red Pygmy Possum Wrasse, they are so cute and have so much personality!
What's your favorite? There's so many options it's hard to choose just one!
What is you favorite fish and why?
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This little guy is one of my favorites. It's a Red Pygmy Possum Wrasse, they are so cute and have so much personality!
What's your favorite? There's so many options it's hard to choose just one!
silverado61
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My favorite fish isn't a fish. Its the Banded Serpent Star. I've got three of them. One of my little guys, a grey banded, must been attacked in the wild. His central disk looks like someone took a bite out of a cookie and he's got a tiny tentical growing back. Two other tenticals were bitten half off but they're growing back too. My big one, also a grey banded, is missing half of one tentical and its also growing back. My third one, this one is a red banded, is fine but he's the tiniest one of the three. They all have a personality all their own.
flower
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Hi, you shouldn't put your hands in the tank unless you have to. fish are not to pet, it messes with the natural slime coating they have. I just thought you should know... I agree Hippo tangs have lots of personality, I adored mine too.
candaceswf
Administrator
That's so neat! Haven't been able to pet any of my fish yet... getting there lol
candaceswf
Administrator
That's a long time to be able to keep a fish, congrats. I understand, as I'm sure everyone else does, they become family
mauler
Active Member
I can pet all my fish I just hand fed them till they got used to my hand
dangerfish
Member
I haven't got a tank yet but I love two that are greatly different 1.) Obviously the Green Mandarin Goby they just have such a cool pattern on them and since the have orange it makes them even cooler 2.) And not so obviously is the snowflake eel and again they have a very cool pattern on them and I've hear that you can even hand feed the as long as you train them to do so.And yeah sadly I know that they cant go into the tank together
candaceswf
Administrator
The mandarin is definitely a favorite among many people! Personally, I wouldn't ever try to hand feed the eel once you get it. They have bad eyesight and could end up biting you rather than the food
My friend used chopsticks to feed his snowflake eel
mauler
Active Member
When I had my eel I hand feed him and I could tell he was pretty much blind after the first feeding cause he bit me and continued too luckily he was still small so it didn't hurtThe mandarin is definitely a favorite among many people! Personally, I wouldn't ever try to hand feed the eel once you get it. They have bad eyesight and could end up biting you rather than the food
candaceswf
Administrator
Ya the small ones I guess wouldn't be that bad, my friend's eel was about 16 inches lol. There is a guy who does dive charters in the keys and would bring hot dogs to feed to the morays, supposedly he did this for a long time and one day after feeding them the guy had no more hot dogs left, but one eel was still hungry and it bit off the guy's finger!
silverado61
Well-Known Member
I heard about the hotdog thing. Now they discourage feeding the eels because they get too dependent on it and won't hunt.
candaceswf
Administrator
Many people do not realize that the same kind of fish could look really different depending on where it comes from. What is different about the blue throat trigger from Vanuatu vs. somewhere else?
dangerfish
Member
yeah I dont think ill hand feed him I think im just going to let him/her hunt it.