Recent content by NatureNerd

Even two dragonettes would be difficult. I do understand the want, they are very cool fish but, please read up on the feeding requirements.

I voted for the orange because that is my second favorite firefish/dartfish. Consider the Helfrichi firefish. This is the most beautiful of all the dartfish, in my opinion. It is more expensive. They go for $80 at my lfs. The helfrichi is similar in behavior and habits to the more common...

Yep, and the neon gobies will clean, if that is the behavior you are after, without overly harassing your other fish. I think the cleaner wrasses are best left in the ocean. See my video in the Scuba section to better understand how these fish live in the wild. They clean at a frenetic pace...

This sounds similar to my build except, I am going with a less tall tank. 48 x 24 x 21". It is a pain to work on a tank when you can't easily reach the bottom. I too am going with the two mountain with channel rock layout. My tank now has rock against the back glass and I have grown to really...

Had a couple dozen of the pests. Added two shrimps. Nothing happened for about two weeks. Then suddenly there were fewer aiptasia. A couple weeks later all were gone. My pep shrimps only ate at night with lights off. It has been several years and I have never seen an aiptasia since. It...

I really enjoy your sense of humor. I relate to your reef keeping too. I have gone away on vacation for three weeks. No one was home to do anything to my reef. I only asked a friend to stop by and add five gallons of water to my top-off bin. No dosing, no feeding, no maintenance at all...

Thank you Adrienne. It was amazing to see and I had to share it with a community that would appreciate it.

Nice shots! Looks like a great trip!

I watched a Hawaiian cleaner wrasse clean probably close to 100 fish in an hour. This was in the wild of course. I don't think we can provide enough fish with parasites to keep this species fed.

I think these (the cleaner wrasses) are fish best left in the ocean. They provide such an important service. I have a tank bred neon goby that rides around on my BT Tang and this is a much better solution to the desire of watching cleaning behavior. Large fish seem to know not to eat these...

Snorkeling near Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, I ran into a cleaning station so I took some footage and threw together a short (1:45) video. It is amazing what you can see while snorkeling over a coral reef. These two little wrasses worked non-stop for the hour or so I spent watching them...

Can't see them either. Would like to but not sure why I can't. I use Photobucket myself, so I know it is not the host site.

From your description, I think I have seen these too, after lights out, once in a while. In my tank, they are usually only in an area with low-ish flow (the far back corner of the tank). They seem to come and go and only are present in visible numbers if nutrient levels go up. They are always...

FROM AN EARLIER POST: I know I sound like a broken record, but Dragon face pipefish are not the answer. They will eat some Red Bugs but not enough to make a big difference for your corals. I did a semi-scientific experiment on this topic. I literally counted bugs on one coral branch every day...

Every tank and every anemone is different. My LTA went from 7 or so inches to over 9" in diameter under AI Sol Blues for the last couple of years. I really don't want it to grow any bigger. This anemone seems to grow or shrink depending on how much food it catches. I don't feed it anymore...