Fish
Deep pockets
Anyone spending time reading about reef aquariums must have noticed the more and more common reports about “rare” deep water fishes entering markets. The prices of these fishes are exceptionally high and more often than not do not correlate in anyway with fish’s beauty, size, interesting behavior or other qualities often associated with aquarium... »
Grumpy has been selected as second prize winner of the Coral-shop contest!
I guess I’ll be testing coral-shop system for while I receive total of 20 liters (!!!) additives from their Marine Line products. The contest was arranged by coralscience.org, a excellent site for science based information that is also usable for aquarists who might not enjoy reading scientific papers. The list of contributors is very impressive; if you... »
Harlequin filefish, 2nd month
So, it’s been two months since I got the Oxymonacanthus longirostris. I have detailed how it came to me in the first status report but as a reminder: this fish came to a local fish store by accident and it was decided that I should give it a try because I had several different... »
Oxymonacanthus longirostris, 1st month
I got this fish from a friend who received it by mistake – he ordered a Oxycirrhites but got Oxymonacanthus instead… The fish was in pretty bad shape after the journey from importer but he quickly recovered. Immediately after he was added in to the tank he swam into a “green slimer” Acropora and... »
Size matters
Many people use the excellent (but most of time far too slow) web site www.fishbase.org as a reference for their existing fish and future fish candidates. I think it is fantastic that people use scientific resources instead of most of the time idiotic hobby forum discussions but there are a couple of things you... »