Beginners playing with natural stuff can be fun. A good sand filter and a hang on the back to keep things moving quickly. Greenback sardines tiniest you can catch they get along really good. They eat tetramin tropical fish food. Very tolerant to changes in water temperature and salinity. A pretty silverfish found on every Reef they don't pick on anyone except each other once in awhile everything has a pecking order
Blue throat fairy wrasses are not peaceful, there’s a fairy wrasse chart showing what is and isn’t going to be aggressive in the genus Cirrhilabrus. Also, where’s the love of tilefish?? These are VERY peaceful but can stand up for themselves, Id love to see a tilefish show on one of your top 10s. I owned (Died in February 2022) Hoplolatilus chlupatyi
Can you do a video on how to transport fish when you move? I'm looking at starting the hobby with a 100 gallon but I know I might not be in the same apartment 2 years from now. The idea of moving my tank seems daunting.
I'd like to hear your opinion on this: Pearlscale Butterfly in a 30 liters. Hear me out: Pearlscales get around 15cm long when full grown, and 30 gals tanks are around 80cm long. That means that a max size Butterfly would be in a tank around 5 times the size of its body (plus the fact that it's the max size, because of lol genetics it could even be theorically smaller). Let's use another fish as a comparison. The minimum tank size for a Blue Hippo Tang (30cm max lenght) is 125 gals, wich are usually long 140-150ish cm. That means the size ratio is exactly 5, like in our Butterflyfish case, with also considered that Butterflies aren't as active swimmers as Tangs, and instead are fish that like to carefully checking every cranny of the reef with their rostrum, so space gor them is not as important as with a Tang. So this made me wonder, people have succefully kept Blue Tangs in 125gallon Aquariums, without making them feel stressed, so is it possible to keep other, less active swimmers in tanks of the same ratio without making them feel stressed? I'm going to make a 30 gallon Macroalgae tank and I putted a Pearlscale Butterflyfish in my wishlist, what do you think? Should I give it a shot? (With obviosly the possibility to rehome it in case of failure) because it's a really pretty fish but I can't really go over a 125 (cuz space)
I grabbed a bunch of snails from the beach and most of them were turbos and a trochus but there was one I was unsure of and couldn’t identify online but it ate algae in quarantine so I hoped for the best. About a week after outing it in my tank I woke up and the mf had half of a starfish in his mouth..
I would disagree somewhat about green mandarins being difficult to care for. Just make sure you buy one that eats live or frozen adult brine shrimp. A good dealer will add some brine shrimp to the tank so you can pick a mandarin that goes after them. I have had success feeding them only frozen brine shrimp for many years. More recently I have been buying de-encapsulated brine shrimp eggs that will hatch in a day or two, at which time they are about the size of copepods. All my fish love them and go into a feeding frenzy when I add them to the tank. If you go that route, talk with a knowledgeable dealer who can direct you to a fine strainer to strain the brine shrimp out of the water in which you hatch them - especially if you decide to feed them and let them mature. They are more nutritious if they are fed. If not fed they will start to die after 2 days.
"So we've come to the number one fish, but... I'm not gonna talk about it."
Love the video I've had my tank for about 5 or 6 years and you videos have been my rock! Thankyou
That is awesome!
This videos have educated me alot . Thank you so much
This is exactly the video I was looking 👍
You should have added the noodles to the list too (Garden Eels and Pipefish), they're so peaceful it's actually the main problem in keeping them.
Beginners playing with natural stuff can be fun. A good sand filter and a hang on the back to keep things moving quickly. Greenback sardines tiniest you can catch they get along really good. They eat tetramin tropical fish food. Very tolerant to changes in water temperature and salinity. A pretty silverfish found on every Reef they don't pick on anyone except each other once in awhile everything has a pecking order
Are aptasia eating filefish a type of trigger fish?
Blue throat fairy wrasses are not peaceful, there’s a fairy wrasse chart showing what is and isn’t going to be aggressive in the genus Cirrhilabrus.
Also, where’s the love of tilefish?? These are VERY peaceful but can stand up for themselves, Id love to see a tilefish show on one of your top 10s. I owned (Died in February 2022) Hoplolatilus chlupatyi
Can you do a video on how to transport fish when you move? I'm looking at starting the hobby with a 100 gallon but I know I might not be in the same apartment 2 years from now. The idea of moving my tank seems daunting.
Thats a good topic.
Top ten tips on keeping such a manly beard, please.
Would the jawfish be ok with the Hawaiian black from Carib Sea? What about sand sifting goby ? TIA!!
Yes I did it before
@@chadsterken7285 thanks for the reply
No problem just make sure you have a deep sand bed and everything is safely held in place
How come in a lot of your videos you never talk about the number one fish very much? Like size diet, tank size, etc..
I'd like to hear your opinion on this:
Pearlscale Butterfly in a 30 liters.
Hear me out:
Pearlscales get around 15cm long when full grown, and 30 gals tanks are around 80cm long.
That means that a max size Butterfly would be in a tank around 5 times the size of its body (plus the fact that it's the max size, because of lol genetics it could even be theorically smaller).
Let's use another fish as a comparison.
The minimum tank size for a Blue Hippo Tang (30cm max lenght) is 125 gals, wich are usually long 140-150ish cm.
That means the size ratio is exactly 5, like in our Butterflyfish case, with also considered that Butterflies aren't as active swimmers as Tangs, and instead are fish that like to carefully checking every cranny of the reef with their rostrum, so space gor them is not as important as with a Tang.
So this made me wonder, people have succefully kept Blue Tangs in 125gallon Aquariums, without making them feel stressed, so is it possible to keep other, less active swimmers in tanks of the same ratio without making them feel stressed?
I'm going to make a 30 gallon Macroalgae tank and I putted a Pearlscale Butterflyfish in my wishlist, what do you think? Should I give it a shot? (With obviosly the possibility to rehome it in case of failure) because it's a really pretty fish but I can't really go over a 125 (cuz space)
What website do you use to view these fish?
Liveaquaria judging by the stills
My Copperband was actually eating too much, it starting to eat my corals and my sea urchin. I had to return mine.
Nice
I grabbed a bunch of snails from the beach and most of them were turbos and a trochus but there was one I was unsure of and couldn’t identify online but it ate algae in quarantine so I hoped for the best. About a week after outing it in my tank I woke up and the mf had half of a starfish in his mouth..
On my
Fairy wrasse is devouring my sexy shrimp, gotta remove
Oh no.
Top 10 protien skimmers under $300 plz
I would disagree somewhat about green mandarins being difficult to care for. Just make sure you buy one that eats live or frozen adult brine shrimp. A good dealer will add some brine shrimp to the tank so you can pick a mandarin that goes after them. I have had success feeding them only frozen brine shrimp for many years. More recently I have been buying de-encapsulated brine shrimp eggs that will hatch in a day or two, at which time they are about the size of copepods. All my fish love them and go into a feeding frenzy when I add them to the tank. If you go that route, talk with a knowledgeable dealer who can direct you to a fine strainer to strain the brine shrimp out of the water in which you hatch them - especially if you decide to feed them and let them mature. They are more nutritious if they are fed. If not fed they will start to die after 2 days.
My Bi-Colour Blenny was a bully.