Category: Saltwater Fish
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Best saltwater aquarium tips for beginners
Creating and maintaining your own saltwater aquarium is a rewarding and enjoyable experience. Here are the 9 Best saltwater aquarium tips for beginners to help you on your journey. 1. Install a grounding probe to avoid shocking yourself and your fish A grounding probe is an inexpensive device that will safely remove stray electricity from…
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Best saltwater fish for a 15 gallon tank
Setting up a saltwater tank is a hobby you can enjoy for years and years. One important aspect of having a successful aquarium is picking fish that are the right size for the tank and are compatible with each other. This guide will help you get started by sharing the 26 Best saltwater fish for…
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Yellowhead Jawfish Care Guide: Opistognathus aurifrons
The yellowhead jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons) is one of the most personable of the jawfish group. Hobbyists get the best of both worlds: a burrowing species that happens to enjoy people-watching. And if you provide the best conditions for your little excavator, you can expect it to “spy hop” throughout the day. All it takes is…
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Sohal Tang Care Guide: Acanthurus sohal
The Sohal tang (Acanthurus sohal) captures the eye with its striking array of vibrant stripes. In any saltwater aquarium, they’re hard to miss. Of course, part of that’s due to their impressive size. If you’re interested in acquiring one of these beauties, you’ll want to prepare yourself for a brute of a surgeonfish. They take…
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Red Coris Wrasse Care Guide: Coris gaimard
The red coris wrasse (Coris gaimard) looks stunning – something you could probably guess with additional common names of rainbow wrasse and clown wrasse. But this popular saltwater species also provides a beneficial service of rooting out unwanted bristle worms. (Who doesn’t love form and function fish?) There are one or two little quirks to…
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Saltwater Fish Compatibility Chart: Saltwater Aquarium Blog
Every saltwater fish species has their own minimum tank size requirements and compatibility/incompatibility profile when added to a tank with certain other species. That’s why I created the Saltwater Aquarium Blog Interactive Saltwater Fish Compatibility Chart and Tool. Saltwater fish compatibility is as easy as 1, 2, 3 Select 1 -3 saltwater fish from the…
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Mimic Tang Care Guide: Acanthurus pyroferus
The mimic tang (Acanthurus pyroferus) stands out from the crowd – well, by NOT standing out. No, really. One of the coolest aspects of this species is the ability to don the colors and patterns of local angelfish while they’re juveniles. The mimicry keeps them safe, sound, and thriving until they morph into the color…
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Best saltwater fish for a 50 gallon tank
50 gallons (227.3 liters) can be a perfect volume for a saltwater tank. It is large enough to allow you some pretty interesting fish options, without breaking the bank or needing you to move out of one of the rooms in your home to make space. 50 Gallon tank dimensions A 50-gallon aquarium is a…
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Spaghetti worms
One aspect of the aquarium hobby that keeps me interested, even after all these years, is the fantastic array of marine life that can and will end up in your tank over time. Every time we place a new coral, fish, live food, or even piece of live rock in the tank, there is a…
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Ruby Red Dragonet Care Guide: Synchiropus sycorax
The ruby red dragonet (Synchiropus sycorax) holds a special place in aquarium history. This gorgeous member of the Callionymidae family made an appearance in the aquarium industry THIS century. Not impressive enough? What if I also mentioned they did so without a scientific name? STILL not impressed? How about if I told you their eventual…
