Recent content by Tropic

you can find orangeshoulders in a variety of areas not just surge zones. We fish em in 35 to 45 feet , they travel in schools when they are juveniles and adults and they can be cracked in large numbers if you have the proper gear and are wise to their tactics. Looks like she is on snorkel which...

where did you find evidence of this event?

good points Matt,....couldnt have said it better myself.

i guess it doesnt matter that i also own a wholesale operation on the mainland as well. Or that i hold fish that i have collected for extended periods of time. Or that i have pet achilles tangs that eat out of my hand. No sir, i do know how my fish act, and how they turn out. I do listen to...

Noone's getting rich here pal. This is a labor of love, not just for you, for most everyone in this trade. sure there might be a minority of people who mistakingly thought that the aquarium industry was lucrative, didnt know anything about it, and jumped right in, but not very often. I'd be...

asking questions are fine. Once they are answered, and you keep on keeping on, then one wonders why. Fish in Hawaii are not collected with cyanide. Never have been, never will be. Starved fish is a whole nother topic, but they shouldnt be intermingled because it muddies the water. about...

No, i know for a FACT that collectors in Hawaii do not use cyanide to catch there fish, especially yellow tangs, so you shouldnt even be discussing something that is already in a fragile state. God forbid the critics of the fish collection in Hawaii read even about your suggested possibilities...

Attrition of tangs is not my business, so i really dont know. You obviously have some issues with your tang supply, my suggestion would be to weed through the bad suppliers to find the ones who give a damn. If you are getting fish that look like they stepped out of Auschwitz then cut that...

two days is the approximate amount of time for a yellow tang and most herbivorous fish to flush out the majority of fecal matter out of their digestive system(once the food is purged out all the intestine is deflated). Even after two days they can still crap the water up, it really takes four to...

"pinch" what the hell is that??? are you referring to the sunken in stomach on a yellow tang? after holding yellows in my system for two days, they start showing signs of "pinch"lol. Its called flushing.....this is what shippers do prior to shipout. All yellow tangs get thin in the stomach...

8O I have to actually agree with Vitz on this one. Seriously Wayne, there is no "WE". There is "YOU" and then there is "US" doesnt take much to become one of us, you just have to be in the trade and have a little sense in your head.

you do realize that many, and i mean many corals were knowingly destroyed in the dredging of the truman annex, right? Most of these corals were settled on manmade substrate, and they only attempted to salvage the larger sized pieces. The other million pieces were surely terminated by the amount...

I didnt want to get involved in this. Steven and Charles....and many others, you were not there, your information is not accurate.....probably because you only have one side of the story. Your dates are wrong, your understanding of the "free" care that was administered to the corals is wrong...

I didnt want to get involved in this. Steven and Charles....and many others, you were not there, your information is not accurate.....probably because you only have one side of the story. Your dates are wrong, your understanding of the "free" care that was administered to the corals is wrong...

no he sounds like the typical Vitz. Vitz- hows your bicycle riding these days sport? Still scrubbing tanks? there is a new algae magnet you can get that would improve your performance. You know what they say...better performance=better pay!