Apparently the home that the jawfish built under a huge rock was a bit of a bad idea… we found him laying outside of this home. The rock must have settled down on top of him after her had dug out the hole. His back fin is pretty torn up, but he is able to [...]
Our Pearly Jawfish was acting pretty funny last night… hanging out near the top of the water and sticking his head in the air. He has moved his home about 5 times in the last week or so. I am not sure if he was ill, unhappy, hungry (his little tummy usually looks really full [...]
The story of our mandarin goby is a sort of funny adventure. Right after we started our tank (the tank was not even a week old I believe). We went to the fish store and I saw a mandarin goby for the first time. I was amazed at how beautiful it was. Mike was silently [...]
Our Jawfish seemed to have disappeared from the tank since we put him in. I kept looking for him in the spot that we saw him in a few days after we put him in the tank, but hadn’t seen him. The killer shrimp had gone after him, so I had thought we lost him. [...]
Our Bicolor blenny has become a lot more active lately. When we first put him in the tank he would hide all day. I hardly even knew he was there. It took me a lot of time to pick out what blenny I wanted to get after we lost the lawnmower blenny that we had [...]
We added a coral banded shrimp to the tank last week (he is kind of a big guy), and he is EVIL!!!! We saw him trying to catch the fish and thought maybe he was just trying to scare them off. Mike came home from work for lunch yesterday and saw something yellow wiggling in [...]
We added a six line wrasse to our tank last night, and the royal gramma (Buttface) was pissed! I haven’t names the wrasse yet, but I like to be a bit creative on naming the fishies. I kept trying to get a picture of the Royal Gramma chasing the wrasse with his mouth wide open, [...]
Veruca Salt is our Yellowtail Damsel. She was the first fish to join our saltwater tank. She was placed in the tank the same day that we switched to saltwater (she was the poor test fish to make sure that the conditions were ok for other fishies). Damsels are hearty fish that are usually really [...]
Once upon the time there was a fish named Buttface. The latin origin of his name is “butt” meaning behind, and “face” meaning the front. (ok, I made that up, but he has a definite behind and front). I actually named our Royal Gramma Buttface because he was mean to the other saltwater fish when [...]
Our Clownfish named Nemo passed away today due to an unfortunate incident involving the filtration. He was a unique clownfish that liked to swim around with his friend Veruca Salt (the Yellowtail Damsel). He especially loved to swim around the arms of anyone who happened to have an arm in the tank (the first time [...]