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Wes Goedjen - 2006-08-12
Just make sure when you have two tangs, in our case a yellow and a blue...that they are the same size when added. We have a 150 gallon tank with 60 pounds of live rock and our yellow attacked and unfortunetely killed our Dory!!

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Pete - 2011-06-18
Next time do your research, as many fish on the reef will not get on in the small confines of a tank.
kate - 2011-10-07
60 pounds isnt a lot of rock for a 150.

Realistic reef keeper - 2009-11-21
"I just got a dwarf lionfish and I'm already in love with him. He's in a 30 gallon tank with a yellow tang, a picasso triggerfish, a clown triggerfish and a panther grouper. I love the way he watches and then boom! And the fish is gone. I would recommend this to anybody with a semi aggressive saltwater aquarium.
some fish lover!"
2009-11-01

Your tank is way to over stocked for the fish you have. You need to do more research before just filling your tank up with whatever you please. They are living creatures try using better judgment with them. You should have at least a 75 gallon tank for those fish. They will most likely die soon if they are not dead already.

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Richard - 2010-04-10
If you are going to keep the lionfish you need to get rid of the triggerfish and grouper too big for a 30 gal. aquarium, not fair to the fish to over stock the aquarium.
Steve - 2010-04-14
I agree with that, as I am about to pick up a fuzzy dwarf lionfish and introduce him to a yellow tang, blonde naso, coral beauty, blue tang and gold stripe maroon clownfish. No fish is over 6" and they are in a six foot long 150 gallon tank established mini reef. Those fish like mine will exceed that tank and probably mine, in a short span of time. Please research what you are doing before you do it. The nitrates alone will make the fish less tolerable to the water changes you will have to do keeping all those med to large fish and a lionfish. I change 40 to 50 gallons every 2-3 weeks and that keeps my Nitrates at .08 ppm to .10 ppm.
aelun - 2011-06-11
Listen you have actually got 2 rather agressive fish and as they grow they will most likely kill your other fish especially considering your tank size. If you want your your fish to survive then you'll need a much bigger tank probably 110 gallons and if you want anenomes say goodbye to your clown trigger fish.
Anonymous - 2012-02-01
4 words, GET A BIGGER TANK!

John - 2011-03-08
I had never seen a Gold Spangled Angelfish in the twenty years I have been maintaining a marine tank, so when I saw one in a St. Louis marine aquarium store, I had to buy it. The fish was extremely expensive ($350), and is the most I ever paid for a fish.
The fish is absolutely gorgeous and is a good tankmate with the other fish. He has an excellent appetite, and appears to be flourishing in the 2 months I have owned him. I will keep my fingers crossed.

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David Brough - 2012-01-30
I have seen them in wholesalers aquariums, they really are beautiful, I hope they are really hardy. Keeping my fingers crossed too!

kathy - 2012-01-29
Our new Black Spotted Puffer, Tbow's eyes turned cloudy and now green. Any idea what this could be?

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Charlie Roche - 2012-01-30
Scroll to symptoms in the Animal World article Fish Diseases

Jake - 2010-06-20
Getting a pygmy soon.

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David Brough - 2012-01-26
Me too! I would like to get a pair so I guess my best bet would be to get a large one and a small one according to the information above.

Chip Kramer - 2011-09-20
We have a dog face puffer, Smiley, he was being harassed by a wrass who we have removed from the tank. Since then he has been hiding in the corners and has stopped eating krill. It almost seems he forgot how to eat. He must be eating snails in the tank as he doesn't look like he is starving. Now he comes up to the front of the tank like he used to when feeding and i can put krill in his open mouth but he wont eat the krill. should we be looking for different food?

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Charlie Roche - 2011-09-21
Some ideas on foods in the Animal World article on Dog Face Puffer. They like their meat so maybe just got tired of the same thing and wants a variety. Good suggestions and variety on feedong the puffer in the article though so please read. Thanks a bunch.
robert - 2012-01-26
Hi I have a 7 inch stars and stripe puffer and eats anything but will not eat krill, but loves prawns and muscles and fresh squid. Even gets mouth fulls of coral sand like a gobby filtering it for food.

Alan Carter - 2010-09-29
I have a Juvenile Blue Ribbon Eel still black. This guy has been very easy for me to keep. I have him in my 55 gal tank at my girls house with plenty of life rock, sand bed, (which he never burys himself in), soft corals, LPS, SPS a huge Snowflake Eel, two Tomato Clowns, a Lion Fish, a Huma Huma Trigger, and a Damsel. Seriously anything I put in front of him he'll eat. I have fed him frozen krill, frozen silversides, ghost shrimp, rosey reds from pets mart, gold fish, and small Damsels because I don't like them, and they are a good snack. lol. Does anyone know when he'll turn blue?

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Anonymous - 2012-01-25
You bought a BLACK ribbon eel NOT a BLUE ribbon eel, they look similer when young.

Nasal Tang - 2012-01-20
just got this fish yesterday. it swims well in a 60 gallon wide tank, only because i have two wavemakers where it swims in one place in the current. i've only seen him peck at algae growing in my tank. so far did not eat the tropical crisp or bloodworms. but seems to be out swimming and happy.

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Editor's Note - 2012-01-20
Seems like you are doing the right things! :) Naso Tangs, like other tangs or surgeonfish are basically herbivores. He is pecking at the algae since that is what he basically eats. If your algae is a little on the low side, and you think he is hungry, try flake food for herbivores or hang some nori agae sheets for him to eat. Watch his tummy area, or I should say, his 'chest' and if it is full and not concave, then he is getting plenty and there is no need to feed him extra. If ANY area in his lower body is 'pinched' or thin, then feed him algae or Nori Sheets. They can be picked up at the local pet store or Nori can be found at asian markets.

Anonymous - 2011-04-06
It's a dorie!

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CRRose - 2011-04-13
Not quite! Dory was a blue hepatus tang, not a purple tang.

coree - 2012-01-15
Why don't you guys have a section for seahorses and pipefish? Some people might want one of those kind of fish. I put that up on the long nosed hawk fish yesterday but no respond back.

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red kangaroo - 2012-01-15
they might be in the horse section that would be funny but i probaly doubt it.
Alex Burleson - 2012-01-18
I apologize that you received no response. However, we are constantly working to better Animal-World, and those are pages we will certainly have to consider.
british - 2012-01-18
I was thinking the same thing cuz I want to get a seahorse real bad.:) p.s. I'm american and I love british people especialy their accent and australians too but british more :)

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