jawfish

I recently bought a male Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse whom I am very happy about. I know they are picky eaters, so I've been feeding him so far with cyclop-eeze and mysis shrimp through a turkey baster bulb and flexible tubing to get in the cracks where the little guy hides. He has been eating, although not a lot, and I want to know if there is any way I can make him eat more/ possibly accept pellets and flakes in the future. I feed my tank once a day every day.

Haha my maroon clown is really evil. Whenever I stick my hand in with tongs or a gravel vac he waits until he sees my hand before attacking. He knows the difference between a foreign object in the tank and a hand! He also will rearrange the live rock itself, pushing rocks twice as big as him around. +1 on evil red eyes.

I do, I keep a Yellow Watchman with a Tiger Pistol Shrimp and a Hi-fin Red Banded Goby with a red banded pistol shrimp. The only problem I've encountered is once when the much more active watchman/tiger duo burrowed straight into the hi-fin/banded hole. The Hi-fin/banded pair were about twice as small as the watchman and the tiger, and got evicted, so I had to shoo them pair into another hole. You could try another shrimp, but I'd try to get a shrimp of similar size or species to the one you have. I have found that the Tiger pistol shrimp seems to like to pair with the yellow watchman more than other, smaller gobies. Just my observation.

The cathedral got some filials knocked off http://www.nationalcathedral.org/galleries/quake2011.shtml

Jawfish (Drew) My 29 gallon tank Nikon D3100 w/ 85mm Nikkor Macro lens Longnose Hawkfish

I find old salt will do that to me when I'm mixing new saltwater.

lost power for about 6 hours, turned on some battery pumps and just prayed. Everything was ok. Since the tank doesn't cool down too quickly, I don't worry as much as when I lose power in the winter. Then I am in panic mode. I wish I had a generator :(

and once you buy a couple whales, buy a minature giraffe! http://www.petitelapgiraffe.com/

yes, it is sad to see animals like this for sale that are impossible to keep, like nudibranchs. I always see them for sale, slowly dying in their tanks

In the back saltwater coral tank there is (I'm pretty sure) a medium sized black feather star that looks pretty awesome. Too bad they are pretty hard to keep, I would have been very tempted to buy it! Has anyone else ever kept one?

I have two battery powered air pumps for the fish, since that seems to be the only thing that they really need. In the past, I lost a dottyback and a clown because of low O2 during a power outage. I have a UPS, but it only lasts 5 minutes with the heater, so I gave that up. I kept the tank reasonably warm (72) by throwing towels over the tank and putting on my gas fireplace. Fortunately, I just got back power two hours ago, and so far the only casualties I can find is my Xenia colony and one of my feather dusters, which dropped its head but I'm hoping it will recover.

I was really going to use it in addition to my dual fluorescent strip canopy so I can start to get some LPS and SPS into my 29 gal system, but it sound like the strip isn't bright enough to start growing these corals. Thanks, though