Aquarium Fish Blog

Here are a few of the saltwater fish that I’m keeping in the 110.

The yellow tang has been with me for about 3 years now and has made it through two bouts of ich with no medication. I’ve given it pristine water conditions, feed it marine algae using veggie clips and also give all my fish a variety of marine fish foods.

I have two maroon clownfish, a mated pair I believe, although they’ve not spawned yet. The bigger one (female) is pictured above. They seldom venture far from the Bubble Tip Anemone they call home. Unfortunately the BTA located itself behind the rock-work in the tank and I hardly ever see these guys, except when foods hit the water.

The Powder Blue Tang is simply my favorite fish. I think the colors on this fish are phenomenal. They are active swimmers and constantly pick at any algae growing on the rock. This tang has the reputation of being very difficult to keep, but mine has been quite hardy. It did have me worried when I first got it because it would not eat anything that I put in the tank. I tried dried algae on the veggie clip, frozen foods, fresh fish foods chopped into tiny pieces (clam and shrimp pieces). All it wants to do is pick at the live rock in my tank and it will now sometimes eat flakes.

The longfin bannerfish pictured above are cool fish too. They are quite peaceful and will eat nearly any foods we give them. They do sometimes pick at one of the larger crocea clam’s mantle. When they are young they are faculative cleaners, which means that they will clean external parasites off of other fishes. I’ve seen them doing this to the yellow tang, algthough I don’t think they are getting anything to eat from the tang, at least nothing you can see with the naked eye.