Recent content by ech0o

It doesn't sound to me like you are dealing with a water quality issue.   A water quality issue would not likely take your fish one at a time, you would see similar afflictions in multiple fish simultaneously.   Sounds to me like you have some kind of bug in your tank, albeit a parasite or...

We have been bringing some bettas in from overseas and this one really stood out to me as a beatiful fish.   Anything special?   Really a beautiful fish!!!!  

ah i've been snafu'd!!!   i got a good one for this next competition, watch out guys!!!!!

Meet Smaug, my fat little ruby dragonette!    

 

lol unfortunately yea, they are considered one of the hardest fish in the industry!   yep tons of other beautiful fish in the hobby, although darn that filefish is gorgeous!!!!

There are only a few cases that I personally, and many much more advanced hobbyists have seen, in which a blue spotted filefish was kept alive and healthy longterm.   They do best in the public aquarium setting, with HUGE amounts of acropora colonies.   They seem to be very very picky at what...

There are 2 diff nems in this pic, the bottom one seems like a harder stinger to me, although the others are def. majano

I will get a picture of him flashing for the FOTM card when the lights are on tomorrow!

my coral banded says he better get a trophy for this, a ribbon at the least....  

yea just try to stuff him with food first, usually does the trick

Eagles Eye or Whammin' Watermelon are common names for those

stylopora or pocillapora id say poecillapora because of the knobbing that happens at the ends of the branches, stylos grow more long and extended without the "broccoli" effect poecillapora   stylophora

I recently broke down the 26g bowfront tank we were running, and we used 1 of those pumps and directed it straight into the rock pile, seemed to deflect a lot of the turbulence.