Aquarium Care Guides
2820 articles- Painted Fire Red Shrimp Breeding GuideBreeding the top-grade Painted Fire Red Neocaridina davidi: sexing, conditioning, berried females with 20-30 eggs, and strict culling to hol
- Fire Red Shrimp Breeding GuideBreeding the high-grade Fire Red Neocaridina davidi: sexing, conditioning, berried females carrying 20-30 eggs for about three weeks, and cu
- Sakura Red Shrimp Breeding GuideBreeding the Sakura grade of Neocaridina davidi: sexing the deeper red females, conditioning, berried females holding 20-30 eggs, raising sh
- Red Cherry Shrimp Breeding GuideHow to breed Red Cherry Shrimp (Neocaridina davidi): sexing, conditioning, berried females carrying 20-30 eggs for about three weeks, and ra
- Serranocirrhitus latus Breeding GuideThe sunburst anthias is a more cryptic, cave-associated relative of the open-water anthias, but still a protogynous broadcast spawner with p
- Mirolabrichthys dispar Breeding GuideThe peach fairy anthias is a protogynous, harem-living planktivore that broadcast-spawns pelagic eggs over the reef. Its planktonic larvae m
- Mirolabrichthys tuka Breeding GuideThe purple queen anthias is a protogynous, harem-living planktivore that broadcast-spawns pelagic eggs over the reef. Its planktonic larvae
- Pseudanthias bicolor Breeding GuideThe bicolor anthias is a protogynous harem fish that broadcast-spawns pelagic eggs; it is among the few anthias raised in hatcheries, but it
- Pseudanthias truncatus Breeding GuideThe truncated anthias is a protogynous, harem-forming reef fish that broadcast-spawns pelagic eggs and develops through a planktonic larval
- Pseudanthias ignitus Breeding GuideThe flame anthias is an Indian Ocean, harem-living protogynous fish that broadcast-spawns pelagic eggs over the reef. Its planktonic larvae
- Pseudanthias ventralis Breeding GuideThe ventralis anthias is a deeper-water, protogynous harem fish that broadcast-spawns pelagic eggs in open water. Its planktonic larval phas
- Pseudanthias parvirostris Breeding GuideThe redbar anthias is a protogynous, harem-forming reef fish that broadcast-spawns pelagic eggs and develops through a planktonic larval sta
- Pseudanthias flavicauda Breeding GuideThe yellowfin anthias lives in protogynous harems and broadcast-spawns pelagic eggs into open water, with larvae developing in the plankton.
- Pseudanthias randalli Breeding GuideRandall's anthias is a haremic, sex-changing reef fish that releases pelagic eggs in open water and develops through a planktonic larval pha
- Pseudanthias lori Breeding GuidePseudanthias lori is a protogynous, harem-living anthias that spawns pelagic eggs in open water and rears planktonic larvae offshore. This g
- Pseudanthias pulcherrimus Breeding GuidePseudanthias pulcherrimus is a haremic, protogynous anthias that broadcast-spawns buoyant pelagic eggs in open water. Home rearing is not re
- Breeding the Squarespot Anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia)Pseudanthias pleurotaenia is a deep-reef, sex-changing anthias in which males bear a square flank patch; its pelagic spawning and planktonic
- Breeding the Yellowstripe Anthias (Pseudanthias tuka)Pseudanthias tuka is a haremic, sex-changing planktivore that feeds on planktonic crustaceans and fish eggs; its pelagic spawning and plankt
- Breeding Evans's Anthias (Pseudanthias evansi)Pseudanthias evansi is an Indian Ocean schooling anthias, a sex-changing planktivore whose pelagic spawning and planktonic larvae make home
- Breeding the Dispar Anthias (Pseudanthias dispar)Pseudanthias dispar is a haremic, sex-changing anthias of outer reef slopes whose pelagic spawning and planktonic larvae make home aquarium
- Breeding the Bluestriped Fangblenny (Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos)Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos is a cleaner-wrasse-mimicking blenny that feeds on the mucus and scales of other fish; it lays demersal adhesive
- Breeding the Red-spotted Rockskipper (Blenniella chrysospilos)Blenniella chrysospilos is an algae-grazing reef-flat blenny that pairs to spawn and lays demersal adhesive eggs in crevices, with no commer
- Breeding the Chestnut Blenny (Cirripectes castaneus)Cirripectes castaneus is an algae-grazing eyelash blenny of wave-swept outer reefs that pairs to spawn and lays demersal adhesive eggs, with
- Breeding the Black Sailfin Blenny (Atrosalarias fuscus)Atrosalarias fuscus is an algae-grazing Indo-Pacific blenny that spawns in pairs and lays demersal adhesive eggs, though aquarium larval rea
- Breeding the Floral Blenny (Petroscirtes mitratus)Petroscirtes mitratus is a small Indo-Pacific blenny that pairs to spawn and nests inside empty mollusk shells, laying demersal adhesive egg
- Breeding the Canary Fang Blenny (Meiacanthus oualanensis)Meiacanthus oualanensis is a yellow fang blenny endemic to Fiji that lays demersal adhesive eggs as pairs, placing it within the captive-bre
- Breeding the Striped Poison-Fang Blenny (Meiacanthus grammistes)Meiacanthus grammistes is a venomous western Pacific fang blenny that spawns as pairs and lays demersal adhesive eggs, making it a well-esta
- Breeding Smith's Fang Blenny (Meiacanthus smithi)Meiacanthus smithi is an oviparous demersal egg-layer from the eastern Indian Ocean and one of the fang blennies now produced through commer
- Meiacanthus mossambicus Breeding GuideMeiacanthus mossambicus is a western Indian Ocean fang blenny that lays demersal eggs in shelters under male care and is produced by captive
- Meiacanthus nigrolineatus Breeding GuideMeiacanthus nigrolineatus is a venomous Red Sea fang blenny that lays demersal eggs in shelters under male care and is bred in captivity. Th
- Meiacanthus atrodorsalis Breeding GuideMeiacanthus atrodorsalis is a venomous fang blenny that lays demersal eggs in PVC shelters under male care and whose larvae have been reared
- Ecsenius yaeyamaensis Breeding GuideEcsenius yaeyamaensis is a small algae-grazing combtooth blenny that lays demersal eggs in rock crevices under male care. This guide covers
- Ecsenius nigrovittatus Breeding GuideEcsenius nigrovittatus is a small combtooth blenny that grazes algae and lays demersal eggs in rock crevices under male care. This guide cov
- Ecsenius pulcher Breeding GuideEcsenius pulcher is a western Indian Ocean combtooth blenny that lays demersal eggs in rock crevices under male care. This guide covers pair
- Apogon hartzfeldii Breeding GuideApogon hartzfeldii is a small reef cardinalfish that pairs during courtship and broods eggs in the male's mouth. This guide covers pairing,
- Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus Breeding GuideCheilodipterus quinquelineatus is a striped Indo-Pacific cardinalfish with a partly piscivorous diet that broods eggs in the male's mouth. T
- Pristiapogon kallopterus Breeding GuidePristiapogon kallopterus is a solitary Indo-Pacific cardinalfish that pairs only to spawn and broods eggs in the male's mouth. This guide co
- Zoramia leptacantha Breeding GuideZoramia leptacantha is a tiny, tight-schooling cardinalfish that forms obligate monogamous pairs and broods eggs in the male's mouth. This g
- Ostorhinchus nigrofasciatus Breeding GuideOstorhinchus nigrofasciatus is a striped Indo-Pacific cardinalfish that, like its relatives, broods eggs in the male's mouth. This guide cov
- Ostorhinchus cyanosoma Breeding GuideOstorhinchus cyanosoma is a small Indo-Pacific cardinalfish that forms stable male-female pairs and broods its eggs in the male's mouth. Thi
- Apogon compressus Breeding GuideThe ochre-striped cardinalfish Apogon compressus is a paternal mouthbrooder that has been reared in captivity; the male incubates the egg ba
- Apogon margaritophorus Breeding GuideApogon margaritophorus is a small paternal-mouthbrooding cardinalfish that pairs distinctly during courtship; the male incubates the egg bal
- Sphaeramia orbicularis Breeding GuideThe orbiculate cardinalfish Sphaeramia orbicularis is a paternal mouthbrooder: the male incubates up to about 12,000 eggs for roughly 8 days
- Synchiropus circularis Breeding GuideThe circled dragonet Synchiropus circularis is a small western-Pacific dragonet that, in common with its family, spawns by a dusk pair-ascen
- Synchiropus moyeri Breeding GuideMoyer's dragonet Synchiropus moyeri is a western-Pacific copepod feeder living in harems with a dominant male, and like other dragonets it s
- Synchiropus stellatus Breeding GuideThe starry (red scooter) dragonet Synchiropus stellatus is an Indian Ocean copepod feeder that, like its relatives, spawns by a dusk pair-as
- Synchiropus ocellatus Breeding GuideThe scooter dragonet Synchiropus ocellatus is a copepod-feeding dragonet that spawns by a dusk pair-ascent. Home breeding is essentially unr
- Coryphopterus glaucofraenum Breeding GuideThe bridled goby Coryphopterus glaucofraenum is a small Caribbean sand-dwelling reef goby with no documented aquarium reproduction. This gui
- Priolepis nuchifasciata Breeding GuidePriolepis nuchifasciata is a small, cryptic cave-dwelling reef goby often found in pairs. Its captive reproduction is undocumented; this gui
- Discordipinna griessingeri Breeding GuideThe spikefin goby Discordipinna griessingeri is a reclusive sub-2 cm reef goby with no documented captive spawning. This guide summarises it