Recent content by velvetelvis

Very beautiful fish. I just got a captive-bred WYSIWYG pair of nigripes from Pacific East Aquaculture today. I was a little nervous, since I've had trouble trying to pair this species before, but they arrived in perfect condition and are getting along just fine.

Thanks for the advice! I don't know about the previous owner, but in fairness to the friend who got the dendro from him and then passed it on to me, she's a single mom with her own aquaculture facility/shop, who also travels to and organizes reefing events throughout the year. So she actually is...

Nice! I have a rescued dendro that I adopted from a friend of mine who grows corals. A customer traded it in, but she didn't have the time or space to dedicate to NPS. I've been feeding it 2x/week for about 2 months. No new heads yet (it came with a couple of smaller ones in addition to the main...

Love it! My current tank is dominated by softies (gorgonians, pink nephthea, sympodium, and lots of blue ridge) and photosynthetic sponges. It's nice to see a thriving tank set up much the same way. Have you experienced any problems with allelopathy? I've read varying opinions on the safety of...

I keep hearing conflicting things about tank sizes for coral beauties. I messaged Biota, whose CBs I'm looking at, and they say that 1-3 (added as babies) would be fine in my tank. The owner of my LFS, who's very honest and won't hesitate to tell people no if she thinks something won't work...

Hi Bob. I live in NC, so definitely not close enough for a pickup! Do you feel comfortable shipping? Thanks, Kristina

Hi! I saw that you had some blue layercake sponge available earlier this year. Do you expect to have any more available? I'm looking for some but it seems hard to find now...thanks!

Still, those are some amazing achievements!

I'm planning a new tank that will feature captive-bred filefish. I'm trying to decide between the whitespotted pygmy filefish and the bristletails. I've read about people keeping groups of the whitespotted together without any problems, but has anybody here ever kept more than a pair of the...

That's amazing! Do you ever sell any of the pistol shrimp young?

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The only other clownfish I would risk adding is a small juvenile tomato clown. They may pair up. Your original clownfish is a dominant female by now and they're very territorial. Tomato clowns are also notorious for being aggressive to begin with.

Territorial as in they may kill each other. The only cardinals I've kept that got along well in groups were threadfin cardinals. But they're also delicate and hard to come by. If you want a fourth fish, I think the tailspot blenny would be a good choice. Blennies are lively and entertaining to...

Honestly, I think you're fully stocked in a 30G. Banggai cardinals are very territorial in captivity. I wouldn't add another.

Years ago I bought a CB pair of M. smithii, the "disco fangblenny". They got along great and even hid together in the rockwork at night or when they were startled.