Recent content by Cirrhilabrus

One more thing to consider as with all of the livestock that you are planning to maintain is the stocking order of the fish. IMO this is the biggest mistake that some hobbyists make is by not adding the smaller more passive fish first to the aquarium. Although the hogfish fish does...

I ran a pet store back in the mid 80’s and was an active hobbyist from 1978, infatuated with marine aquariums. I purchased one of the first designs of a Wet Dry filters in I believe late 1984 shortly after some literature was coming out of Europe on this new filtration technology. The filter...

Looks like a grandpa Amphiprion ocellaris. I have seen these fish darken to a brown, black and orange coloration as they grow old. The body shape usually changes slightly above the eyes and around the head, as do most older fish. How thick the black stripes are as well as how thick the white...

HQI =(Halogen Quartz Iodine) The bulb is made made out of Quartz glass with small quantities of Halogen gas inside. It is my understanding that Halogen represents Iodine, Fluorine, Chlorine, and Bromine gasses. Pulse Start I believe is a ballast that will fire halide bulbs up slowly in order...

Dizzy, I agree with John on the identification. I have maintained this species in a small reef aquarium with a pair of White Ray Shrimp Gobies Stonogobiops sp. (Yashia), and a Gramma linki for almost a year now. The fish always hangs upside down, so I would agree that it is a cave dweller in...

Im not reading this information anywhere, but rather providing first hand experience from acclimating and netting this species hundreds of times.

Looks like a Pink Margin Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubrimarginatus).

The dorsal spines of Paracanthurus hepatus are venomous, and I would think that the first few anal spines are also. I have handled quite a few of these fish in the past and have been stuck by blue tang on a few occasions. It doesnt hurt as bad as a Volitan sp. lionfish, but feels more like a...