Tuesday, July 26, 2011

SnowFlake Eel

Snowflake Eel


Minimum Tank Size: 50 gallons
Care Level: Easy
Temperament: Semi-aggressive
Reef Compatible: With Caution
Water Conditions: 72-78° F, dKH 8-12, pH 8.1-8.4, sg 1.020-1.025
Max. Size: 2'
Color Form: Black, Tan, White
Diet: Carnivore
Compatibility: View Chart
Origin: Indo-Pacific, Vanuatu
Family: Muraenidae

 The Snowflake Eel, also known as the Snowflake Moray Eel, Clouded Moray, or Starry Moray, is one of the most beautiful morays, and inhabits caves and crevices throughout the Indo-Pacific reefs. In the wild, it can grow to 39 inches; most captive specimens will not exceed 24 inches.
This is a very hardy eel, but an escape artist. A 50 gallon or larger aquarium with plenty of live rock and a tightly fit canopy is ideal. Most of the eels that are lost in an aquarium are due to poorly sealed tanks. The Snowflake Eel is safe to house with any fish it cannot easily swallow. It can be housed with some invertebrates, like anemones and corals, but not crustaceans.
The wild Snowflake Eel is a nocturnal predator, ambushing fish and crustaceans. In the tank, it will take frozen or freeze-dried krill, fish, shrimp, and most meaty foods. It can be taught to hand feed, although this should be done with caution, as it can inflict a painful bite.

Blue Spotted Puffer


The Blue Spotted Puffer may also be called the Blue Dot Toby or Blue Dot Sharp-nosed Puffer. Members of the Canthigaster genus are called Sharp-nosed Puffers or Tobies. It lacks pelvic fins, but has learned to use the pectoral fins to move about the aquarium.
A 50 gallon or larger, fish-only aquarium is suitable. It may be aggressive at times, nipping the fins of tank mates, leaving a circular hole as its mark. Its teeth are actually a fused beak-like structure. It will eat invertebrates found in a reef tank. It becomes alarmed when in a net, therefore, use a container to transfer it.
The diet of the Blue Spotted Puffer needs a varied diet of meaty foods including; squid, krill, clams, and hard shelled shrimp to help wear down their ever growing teeth.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Black Bellied Hamster


The Black Bellied Hamster is a species of hamster that is hardly ever kept as a pet.it is also one of the biggest hamster species grow as big as 4 inches in length and living an average of 6-8 years of age.like most other species of hamsters and pet hamsters, black bellied hamsters are omnivores.they should be feed live meal worms,crickets and a variety of vegetables and fruits like chopped up pieces of apples,cantaloupe,bits of bananas,romaine lettuce,celery,parsley,dill,hay,grass and a variety of seeds like sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Buttikoferi

Tilapia Buttikoferi
Buttikoferi Cichlid

The Buttikoferi is a african cichlid from lake tanganika.it is a very territorial fish. if it is put in a small with tank with less aggresive fish the buttikoferi will bully the less aggressive fish and at times it may kill the less agrresive fish.it is a fish that will grow to be about 12-20 inches in its adult stage.it requires a tank that is a minimum of at least 100 gallons.since it is a omnivore it will eat meaty and non meaty foods.most will only eat meaty foods.if it eat both meat and non meat foods,it should be feed brine shrimp , bloodworms , crickets, goldfish pellets and flakes,a variety of carnivorous fish pellets.