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Anemone Fish
Anemone fish are from the family pomacentridae which divides two: anemonefishes and damselfishes. These enjoy equal popularity in the hobby, and provide many an aquarist’s there first encounter with keeping marine fish.
Anemonefishes, also called clownfish because of their comical, waddling swimming style and their bold markings, are best known for their commensal relationship with sea anemones, especially those of genre Stoichactis and Heteractis. Although anemones have stinging cells to protect themselves and to stun and capture prey, anemonefishes have a mucus coating that renders them immune to these things. Thus the anemone does not consider the fish as prey, and the two can live harmoniously. Nevertheless, it is perfectly possible to keep these fish without an anemone, and vice versa. Anemonefishes are territorial; keep only one pair per anemone.
Various species will breed in aquaria; buy a pair, or two males; one will develop into a female. If keeping a group, after the dominant pair have spawned the others should be removed to prevent them from being attacked by the very protective male. The fry are not easy to raise, requiring rotifers as a first food.
Black Neon Damselfish
Source: animal-world.com
Name: Black Neon Damselfish also known as Blue Velvet Damsel Fish, Blue Velvet Damselfish, Neon Velvet Damsel Fish, Bluevelvet Damselfish, Neon Velvet Damselfish, Javanese Damsel Fish, Javanese Damselfish, Blue-Streak Damsel Fish, Blue-Streak Damselfish, Blue-Streak Devil, Blue-banded Damselfish, Blue-banded Damsel fish, Bluebanded Damselfish, and Bluebanded Damsel Fish.
Latin Name:Paraglyphidodon oxyodon
Family Pomacentridae
Distribution Western Pacific
Size 7.5cm (3 in)
Diet Omnivorous. Small aquatic invertebrates such as Mysis and brine shrimp, either live or frozen, plus flake foods; will also [...] Continue Reading…
Damselfish
Three-Striped-Damselfish
Damselfishes are considered to be hardy marine fish and, therefore, suitable as first fish for a newly set-up marine tank (nitrogen cycle) or for the novice marine aquarist. This may be so, but their hardiness is no excuse for poor tank management, exposing them to extreme levels of nitrites and ammonia. As with any other fish, poor water quality or excessive stress will leave them susceptible to infections. There are some species [...] Continue Reading…
Yellow Sailfin Tang
Name: Yellow Sailfin Tang or Lemon Sailfin Tang
Latin Name:Zebrasoma flavescens
The yellow sailfin Tang is perhaps the best Tang for any beginner marine aquarist and is one of the top ten most popular marine aquarium fish species with attributes of bright colors, hardiness,low cost and slow growing and live long make this a great fish. Like all seven of the sailfin tang species, when the fins of the Yellow Tang are fully extended its height is about the same as [...] Continue Reading…
Domino Damselfish
Name: 3 Spotted Domino Damselfish, also known as the Three Spot Damselfish, Threespot Dascyllus or just domino Damselfish
Latin Name: Dascyllus trimaculatus
The white marking on the black background are reminiscent of the spots of a domino, but these spots only occur on the juveniles. As the domino Damselfish matures the spots with disappear and they become greyer. Young junveniles often seek protection from with Stichodactyla species (Carpet Anemone), forming relationships like the clownfish but not as permanent.
The domino damselfish is [...] Continue Reading…
Five-Banded Barb (Barbus Pentazona)
Name: Five-Banded Barb
Latin Name: Barbus Pentazona
Five-banded barbs have not always been considered suitable fish for beginner, However the freshwater fish today in LFS are normally tank raised and therefore climatized to freshwater aquarium conditions. The five-banded barbs are normally timid and this can be overcome with a well planted aquarium.
They can be feed live or frozen foods with out any problems but they are know to refuse flake food, but again cause more of them are tanked raised [...] Continue Reading…
Chequer Barb (Barbus Oligolepis)
Name: Chequer Barb
Latin Name: Barbus Oligolepis
This little sized barb is an excellent for novice fishkeepers because it is easy to keep, but be sure to buy at least 6 of them because they really do like to be kept in small groups rather than as individuals.Also ensure they are mixed with males and females. The males will spar with each other but ralely is any damage done to the chequer barbs, they are just getting their [...] Continue Reading…
Ruby Barb (Barbus Nigrofasciatus)
Name: Ruby Barb
Latin Name: Barbus Nigrofasciatus
Other Names: Purple Head Barbs, Black Ruby Barb
The Ruby Barbs can be very misleading because only the male will exhibit the rich red colour. As you can see form above the have several names and from this we can see the colours can vary, the colour of the males is best when they are ready to breed, so keep them as a group of both sexes to get the full benefit of their color.
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Rosy Barb (Barbus Conchonius)
Name: Rosy Barb
Latin Name: Barbus Conchonius
This hardy little fish called the Rosy Barb is deal for the beginners, as it is not fussy about water conditions (provided not too warm) and will eat anything from algae and plants to flake,tablet,and live foods. Rosy Barbs are peaceful and tolerant of other speices and mix well with other similar-sized barbs. They are constantly on the move, so arrnage the plants to allow space for this.
Young stock will not show the beautiful [...] Continue Reading…