I was reading the about.com top saltwater aquarium myths, and it said:
6. Coral Banded Shrimp kill fish.
MYTH:
Coral Banded Shrimp kill fish.
FACT:
The Coral Banded Shrimp is a scavenger as well as a parasite picker, and may attack other shrimp, but will not normally attack fish. Many people who find their Coral Banded Shrimp consuming a dead [...]
Garf.org is a company that researches coral farming in order to decrease the effect of the saltwater reef keeping hobby on the environment. We are following their protocol for additives to the tank to help in growing our reef.
What we will be using in our saltwater tank based on the Garf calculator:
Tank Information:
Tank Size = [...]
I was informed that our anemone likes to hang out at the top of the tank due to the tank not having enough light. I learned in this process that there is a lot more to aquarium tank lighting than I had ever thought there could be.
I started the aquarium lighting section of the fishwiki. [...]
So we have a lot of new coral polyps that we used gel glue to stick onto the live rock throughout the tank… and they keep falling down. Everyday when we wake up we find something new knocked over or moved. We have 3 snails that are about 2-3 inches that seem to be the [...]
Mike and I went to the fish store by our house the other day (I think we would have more money if we skipped such trips, but this whole saltwater fish thing has turned into an addiction I believe). I have a tendency to eyeball a lot of things and never buy them. The last [...]
Feeding time! The most active we ever see the jawfish and the yellow watchman goby are when we feed the fish. You can get a really good look at the jawfish in this video. All of the fish that are out feeding are the royal gramma, six line wrasse, purple firefish, yellow tail damsel, clownfish, [...]
I have a larger sized image of our tank loaded on the saltwater fish photo gallery.
Click here to see the large aquarium image (you must have java enabled to view this pic). The new coral isn’t opened up in this picture of our tank. I will add a new photo in the next couple of [...]
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 [...]
We hadn’t seen the new watchman goby or the pearly jawfish for over a week and started to expect the worst. They are starting to poke their heads out and make permanent homes in the tank.
They are doing fine now. Brady came over and reorganized the rocks that I had made a mess of trying [...]
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. [...]