Recent content by Jhoehlein

Go for it. The rest of your fish are fairly small-bodied, you shouldn't run into bioload issues. Try and get a smaller one, you are right on the border for acceptable size tank for this fish. As Geraud mentioned they can have an outsized personality for their size. One of my clients had an...

Golden Leptastrea. Encrusting SPS, not terribly difficult to keep. Moderate light and flow.

Not my personal disaster, but that of an ex-employee of my former company who no longer works there for obvious reasons. This was several years ago. 2 AM Sunday morning. Emergency call goes out, one of our larger clients - a 500 gallon reef in a 15th floor penthouse off Central Park West - has...

They look like Scolymia... if they're closed up in these pictures and normally pretty fluffy they have the shape to be the more common S. australis. If they're always like this, where the flesh is pretty thin on top of the skeleton, they could be Tongan Scolymia, S. vitensis.

It's a stomatella snail. Harmless algae eater that probably hitchhiked in on your life rock.

Caribbean rock boring urchins are black to red Pacific specimens have a black to purple body with white spines

It looks like ORA's Joe the Coral http://www.orafarm.com/product/joe-the-coral/

That's not a long spine urchin, that's a rock boring urchin. Long spines (Diadema sp.) have very long spines that break easily: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+530+591&pcatid=591 Rock boring urchins (Echinometra sp.) have shorter, stouter spines that don't readily...

Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis, the Social Fairy Wrasse. Great little fish, one of the smaller Fairies.

Find one in an LFS that's already eating. The hardest thing for them is shipping stress / acclimation... If you can get one you know is already eating well you're golden. The only other thing with them is they sleep in the sand, so at least 2-3" sandbed is a must.

They're not the hardiest and you need a sand bed but Leopard Wrasses are outstanding reef-safe wrasses, decent size, great temperament, and really nice patterns and colors.

I've found copper to be much more effective than hypo for quarantine purposes. It can also be really tough on sensitive fish, your regal included. If you can get your hands on chloroquine phosphate that's my preferred treatment, it's not nearly as harsh as copper but still fairly effective at...

You should be fine keeping it running, it won't make that big an impact on the temperature of the water in the back chamber. It's only going to cool the water down to the temperature you specify which shouldn't be radically different than the temperature in the display. I use a 1/10 Arctica on...

Naming fish is a horrible idea, because as soon as you become attached to one it will inevitably jump out. That being said, of course my girlfriend and I name all my fish because they're our pets and we love them. Percula clown pair: Big Barda and Mister Miracle Pictus Blenny: Benny the Blenny...

Two different mouths for two different methods of feeding. Yellow tangs are nippers, bristletooth tangs are scrapers. Yellow tangs, like all of the Zebrasoma tangs, have a small narrow mouth on the end of a snout. Perfect for taking small nips out of macroalgae, or reaching into crevices other...