by Felicia McCaulley | Feb 23, 2017 | Eye Candy, Feeding, Fish, Too Cute
If you’re interested in scorpionfish but have a small tank, check out the tiny Caracanthus. There are four species in this genus, though only two are offered in the pet trade — Caracanthus maculatus from the Indo Pacific and Caracanthus madagascariensis from... by Felicia McCaulley | Feb 16, 2017 | DIY, Feeding, Fish, Seahorses
Some of the most beautiful fish in the aquarium hobby have live food diets and refuse to eat frozen food right away. With all the distractions and stress of the display tank, live food eaters usually starve without food training.… by Felicia McCaulley | Feb 8, 2017 | Eye Candy, Feeding, Fish, Too Cute
The Wartskin and Painted Anglers are strange looking fish with even stranger habits. Colored specimens perfectly match the toxic sponges in their habitat, while green and brown specimens blend in with the... by Saltwater Smarts | Feb 4, 2017 | Feeding, Fish, Opinion, Reef
Mandarin dragonet (Synchiropus splendidus) Hobby pioneer Paul “Paul B” Baldassano is not your grandfather’s reefkeeper (though he is old enough to be your grandfather!). Nor is his book, The Avant-Garde Marine Aquarist: A 60-Year History of Fishkeeping, anything like your grandfather’s hobby literature. In fact, Paul B’s perspective on just about any aspect of the marine aquarium hobby is quite distinct from anyone else’s. For proof that Paul has a decidedly different thought process, look no further than the following passage about mandarins and other dragonets from Chapter 7 of his book (which, by the way, would make a wonderful stocking stuffer for that slightly off-kilter hobbyist in your life):Mandarins and Other Dragonets Mandarinfish and all the other dragonets have the same problem—a tiny mouth and almost no stomach. Mandarins were designed to eat amphipods and copepods, or “pods” as we call them, but a mandarin will eat anything small that moves. I know many people try to “train” such a fish to eat pellets, potato chips, or frozen food, but dragonets hate you when you do that because all you are doing is slowly killing them. Because of their weird digestive tract, which is something like that of a seahorse, they don’t have the ability to store food—kind of like when people get that surgery where they put a band around the stomach so they can’t eat as much by Marcin Smok | Feb 2, 2017 | Corals, Feeding, Industry
Coral Cuisine, a new frozen food from the well-known fish food manufacturer San Francisco Bay, is specially formulated to meet the dietary needs of the smallest members of the reef aquarium. Corals are universally known to be hard-to-feed animals, and SFBB offers a... by Zachary Mueller | Jan 30, 2017 | Aquaculture, Feeding, Science
In my previous article, I wrote about microalgae and why it is beneficial to culture it in your home, and I highly recommend you go read that here first if you haven’t! In today’s article, and the next article as well, I will be talking about culturing...
