Recent content by Fish Guy

DAMSELS RULE!!!! They cost 5-10 bucks a pop and never die. Best fish in the world.

so will the electric company!!! :D sounds nice though!

nah u want to clean water as fast as possible when curing lr to keep as much stuff living on it as possible. Plus the lr itself is already loaded with nitrifying bacteria. It is true that a skimmer will decrease organic waste but that will only help the tank by making water cleaner. Skimmers...

Never kept a Pacific long spine but your dead right about Caribbean long spines eating xenia and corraline( all urchins will eat this though). The long spine is still in my reef tank and the only thing he cleaned out was the xenia a friend gave me. Hasnt eaten orange zoanthids, mushrooms, any...

Thx for the replies. King Jason do you keep shrimp, snails, and hermit crabs with your blue jaw? Does he eat em. What im trying to do is find some neat fish that wont eat mobile inverts or cause ww3 with my current fish. I have 7 damsels, pair of tomato clowns, blueface angel, regal tang...

Thats basically what I did and it worked great. Good luck!

Ive kept 3 species of Urchins. A long spined caribbean, purple pincushion and blue tux. The Blue tuxedo is the best since it stays small and never ate any corals. My long spined carribean ate xenia and mows eveything off the rock. Same thing with the pincushion about mowing plus it is a...

Anybody keep a blue throat trigger with small fish and mobile inverts? Thinking of adding one to my fowlr plus mobile inverts(serpent stars, h crabs, shrimps, urchins, etc). I read they are planktivore but was curious if over time they will eat above listed critters.

It is a 1000 and it works great. I just got it replaced. First one broke a bout 7 months ago and the fish never cared. Shirmp and clownfish kept on breeding. I got sick of looking at red slime algae so I replaced the skimmer. Heck for the last 7 months Ive run my 240g with no filtration...

Funny I got Bang Bang basically calling me a animal lover based on his quotes bout the peanuts, etc. and podman debating against me for being too harsh to animals. I guess my point got lost somewhere along the line :) My take is this it is legal to do whatever you want with stuff you buy...

So there is a peanut gallery on reefs.org, interesting.

I meant that last sentence from a pet keeping perspective. Most sw fish that people buy do not live to ripe old age. Most die from a variety of unnatural causes. Shipping/catching casualties, owner neglect/ignorance, etc. If people kept dogs and they mostly died from the types of things that...

Podman have you never killed anything in your tanks. Not even once.... I dont think you can make that statement in all honesty. The opinion that it is just a fish, so what if it dies is imported from the fw side of the hobby where almost all fish are farm raised and no one cares if they...

I did sound a bit harsh but maybe this hobby should be shut down. I myself have killed stuff and anyone who has never lost anything is either a liar or lucky as hell. Think of it this way if you bought a dog and it stood the chance of a sw fish living to old age then keeping dogs would be...

:roll: This whole thing is funny. If you buy something and it dies... so what you paid for it. Its your choice to learn from it or throw some more money away. The same rights that let me buy a fish let Joe Bob buy the same fish nine times to keep it once. What if you bought a live puffer...