Why not a convict tang? I'm asking because they've finally grown on me and I plan to get one soon.
And whats the deal with sexy shrimp and rainbowfish?
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Why not a convict tang? I'm asking because they've finally grown on me and I plan to get one soon.
And whats the deal with sexy shrimp and rainbowfish?
Uh oh, you're just confirming my life long fearsYa know I’ve always had a fear of swimming in the ocean cause of sharks and what not.. I normally go like waist deep and what do you know!! Stepped on a stingray! Scared the living cahoots outta me, but I didn’t get stung thankfully! No more ocean for me hahahaha!
My lfs is actually really good at keeping them alive. They feed on mussels and brine. I don't remember if they ate flake or not.Corallivore butterfly's. Those like the Ornate or Arabian. Stunners but even and expert would have a hard time with these. I think you'd have to have a huge established reef with lots and lots of corals to munch. In the wild these guys are always grazing the reef for coral. The Ornate has to be my favorite tropical marine fish so gorgeous.
That’s a 4ft grouper being kept in a kiddy pool btw…All in the same terrible LFS back in June and that’s just some of their ridiculous stock.
That’s just wrong on so many levels. I’m surprised that’s even legal.That’s a 4ft grouper being kept in a kiddy pool btw…
It’s not just the eastern seaboard. They’re EVERYWHERE now, I saw them all over the place when I dove the Flower Gardens off the Texas coast. They’re a plague across the entire Caribbean.Lionfish.
I know, they are pretty.
But look at what has happened along the entire eastern seaboard when hobbyists decided they were too much to handle so they dumped them in the ocean. And they are still for sale today.
It’s not just the eastern seaboard. They’re EVERYWHERE now, I saw them all over the place when I dove the Flower Gardens off the Texas coast. They’re a plague across the entire Caribbean.
I have friends in Florida that eat them. I also know some people that have restaurants selling them now to eat. They're everywhere and supposedly they aren't Terrible tasting.Yep. With no natural predators they turn into this 2 1/2 foot monsters. I took this in Belize last summer.
Stonefish are weird. They can kill people but actually their venom is very similar to the venom in stingwrays, rabbitfish, catfish, lionfish, and scorpionfish. What makes them dangerous is actually that they often inject far more venom because they are stepped on and the spines and venom sacks are functionally like an upside down syringe. The more force put in the “syringe” the more venom is injected.
I always chuckle when I see baby (3 inches or less) groupers for sale at the LFS... how many new hobbyists are gonna a. know how big those things get and b. actually have a system big enough to support them??
It's interesting how variable rabbitfish stings are. Sometimes people describe it as nothing, sometimes a bad bee sting, and sometimes the single worst experience of their life.
I have friends in Florida that eat them. I also know some people that have restaurants selling them now to eat. They're everywhere and supposedly they aren't Terrible tasting.