Random Thoughts

I have always been drawn to more odd shaped fish like copperband butterflies, frogfish, pipefish, seahorses etc, but copperbands always keep me fascinated. They are not very rare and not real difficult but many people have trouble keeping them, or even getting them to eat.

In the early 70s I started to write a book (that I will never finish) and I noticed in my notes that copperbands were one of the first fish I used to keep, right after blue devils, clowns and dominoes.
...

Some fish facts:
The best way to keep an animal like a fish healthy is to know how it makes it's living.
We are after all very distant relatives of fish (if you believe Darwin) so we should have some sort of understanding of the way they feel.
We don’t see the way fish see, we don’t feel the way fish feel, and we also don’t eat the way fish eat. Fish don’t have tongues and they don’t "really" chew. (Try chewing without using your tongue) They bite a piece of food, then ...

Getting ready to head down to CT for the frag show. Lots of great vendors and raffle prizes. For anyone interested, I'll try to post some pics. For anyone in the area of Storrs CT, come on down from 11-5! My first time and I'm like a kid waiting for christmas!

Can two royal grammas co-exist in the same tank?

tank is doing great 2/3 the cycle and the 2 clownfish i have are doing great. So i order a small clean up crew yesterday with about 60 hermit carbs and snails. then the woman come into my fish room and was like i just order u 400 snails. im like ok cool then i find out she ordered nassarius (Ilyanassarius Obsoleta) snail and im like u just order 400 shells because i heard bad things about them. Anyone esle think the same?

Order my skimmer stand from Marc cant wait for it to get here. ...