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Vicki - 2010-07-06
Can I add a Lyre Tail wrasse if I have a shrimp in the tank?

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Madison - 2011-12-19
NO!

David - 2010-03-31
I personally have a Queen (Juvenile), and its beautiful coloration makes it my favorite fish.

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Jodie Hall Sr - 2010-05-12
The Queen angelfish is certainly a beauty. It was one of the first salt water fish available because they could be collected in the keys. I caught one for myself in about 1972 and it lived 6 years in a 55gal tank that had no living rock or coral. It did well from 1.5" to 10" on a diet of frozen brine shrimp or protozoro, freeze dried tubifex worms and flake food. This fish and several others that I kept for a long time eventually became blind, quit eating and died. From this experience I drew a hypothesis that we tend to have too much light over our aquariums so we need to provide lots of dark alcoves for the fish. They will come out to eat! That's just my idea. Good luck.
David Brough - 2011-12-15
Thanks for adding your experience. The lighting theory is interesting, I don't think I've ever run across it before. Cheers!

Ley - 2011-12-15
Hi ihave leopard eel about a meter long had it for about 2years always feeding fine 2months ago got in found it on the floor still alive put it back in the tank and started giving out this slimy stuff then went back to normal behaves well doesn't look any thinner but hasn't eaten in two months now tried all kinds of food live dead frozen fish shrimp don't now what to ddo can anyone help plz

Steve - 2011-12-13
I currently have one of these with a ocellaris clown fish, a small piccasso trigger, a yellow tang, a medium blue jaw trigger, a powder brown tang, a kole yellow eye tang, a sailfin tang, a naso tang, a blue tang, a juvenile koran angel, a cleaner wrasse, a female bird wrasse, a saddle vallentini puffer, a niger trigger, a small marine betta, and a very small/skinny snowflake eel. They all get along perfectly fine, and yes even the triggers and neon velvet damsel.

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Charlie Roche - 2011-12-14
You have a full house -

Julija Belogubova - 2011-12-12
About a week ago we added the cute yellow tail blues damsels to our existing collection of a yellow tang, skeleton gobie, star fish and a boxing shrimp.
All was well until a couple of days ago when one of the damsels was picked on by the other two. This lead to stress and even with isolation eventually death. But .... this is not all, now the other two have been swimming on there sides (flirting with each other)????? as we see it. Also they seem to change colour of their beards to a light grey?!?!? This only lasts for the same time as the flirting is going on..

Can anyone help but shedding light onto this?

thomas fabin - 2009-06-07
I have just added a sohal to my tank, 75 gal. It houses an ashfur angel, purple tang and a blonde tank. They all get along perfect, they're all around 3-4 inches in size. I have them in a well set up reef tank, the four fish together, just incredable. I plan to get a golden butterfly to wrap it up, wish me luck.

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mark - 2011-12-07
all four fish you listed will be to big for that size tank in a couple of months.tou need at least a 180

Anonymous - 2011-11-27
What is the Teardrop Butterfly Fish's Life Cycle..........................
(need answer-For marine science project Highschool Class)

Anonymous - 2011-11-27
I have a new bi color angel. Although he does stop now and then to pick at live rock, he continually swims back and forth across the tank. He almost seems nervous? Is this normal?

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Charlie Roche - 2011-11-28
Video on U-Tube of angelfish swimming angelfish and looks pretty normal for it to be going back and forth in the tank.

dao - 2006-12-13
Hi, i am a beginner. i bought a bicolor angelfish but, i think i will resell it. thanks for the info

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Louann Gwinn - 2011-11-19
Aloha there! I completely agree with your thoughts. I’ve just shared it on the social networks.
Leontine Blonder - 2011-11-25
Thanks for your post! I really liked it.

Oliver Bailey - 2006-09-06
This wrasse requires expert ownership and should only be kept or attempted by the most experienced aquarists. Its diet is the main problem as it relies heavily on copepods and amphipods and this diet cannot be constitued unless in a large mature tank and like many other difficult fish possibly has another dietary requirment that often leads to their premature death, i.e the morrish idol. This fish is best left in the ocean, and other fairy wrasses utilised as these are far more suitable and in my opinion the perfect reef inhabitant.

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Eugene Searle - 2011-11-22
My splendid leopard eats like a little pig. She loves mussel, brineshrimp and is a massive fan of hikari pellets. It took a few weeks for her to take the hikari, but she loves it and has gained some good weight.

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