Recent content by lisamweston

So this is where I am at with my main tank, have some great fish and inverts, really love watching and feeding them. Have a second tank run off the first with safe soft corals, all ready for seahorses. Hoping this week to get my first pair. Will try to attach some pics.

i have heard conflicting things about chromis- getting 5-7 means that they will keep picking off the smallest one, getting 8 or more that is less likely to happen. thoughts?

is there a smaller fish that would do better, and would encourage my foxface? i want my fish to be happy...

220 gallons is too small? my research says at least 135 gallons, it seems to be lots of space, I'm interested to hear from others who have these fish, thanks

my foxface is the largest fish in my tank right now, i have 2 black clowns, 2 orange clowns, 2 bluedamsel fish and a royal gramma w inverts. he is a scaredy cat, when he comes out he is always flicking his spikes. i was thinking about adding a juvenile emperor angelfish next. do you think having...

as i am building up the health and stock of my tank, i am getting a second tank started up next week for seahorses. 60 gallons, run off my current tank filter, with its own gentler powerheads. I found a source for tank bred seahorses in Toronto and hope to have them in the tank probably in the...

what kind of anthias do you have?

A little fleshy thing is growing on the live rock and some flat purple stuff is growing on my snail- will it kill him?

So I am dreaming about a new tank for seahorses, I am starting to explore what all could be in there with them. Do people think that seahorses with some corals could live ok with some anemones and clown fish if the tank were big enough? Any suggestions for a size of tank and I understand that...

"take care of", as in eat?

Many many years ago, I saw a tank in an aquarium somewhere that had seahorses in it and fell in love with the idea of a saltwater tank with seahorses til I started researching it and found out that most seahorses were wild caught and that they were a threatened species and many died during the...

i also heard that- they will pick on one fish til it dies, i dont want that. but everything and everyone says something different about how many to get. i am also thinking of a school of pyjama cardinalfish but have to figure out how many of them too. i knew this hobby was complex but had no...

oh, ok, i have just seen the one so will keep my eyes out for more

that may be, info says stomata is brownish and nocturnal, this was definitely pink, and came out when the daylights were on. i will keep watching, thanks

Oops, here is the picture