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Pipefishes<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nPipefishes are rife in pet stores across the planet. They are slow moving and easy to collect from reefs. Basic nets is all it takes to rob these fish from their natural habitat. Pipefishes are normally costly fish, averaging a cost of about a $35 to $100 per fish.<\/p>\n
However, despite their pretty appearance, these fish have a ravenous appetite. Their diet is similar to that of the Mandarin Fish (which is also on this list for similar reasons!) They need large feed, such as shrimp to ensure they stay healthy and live to their natural potential. They eat on mass and regularly throughout the day. Furthermore, these fish are not clean eaters, and you relatively small tank will quickly become polluted, even if you’re using the latest fluval filters.<\/p>\n
Mandarinfish<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nPhoto credit:\u00a0Luc Viatour \/ www.Lucnix.be<\/em><\/p>\n
This beautiful fish, with vibrant flashes of green and red is a common fish to wreck havoc on novices. It’s popular simply because it’s relatively cheap, about 25 US dollars in most pet stores.<\/p>\n
The mandarinfish also has other traits that make it appealing to a novice. It’s a playful and interesting to watch fish. It likes to “look at you” often seen staring at the aquarium glass and they have a lively swimming habit, going in and out of plants rocks and floating across the tank.<\/p>\n
What makes the fish difficult to handle is that it doesn’t eat the food the rest of your fish will eat. Pellets, flakes, sinking food, even live food won’t satisfy this one’s picky diets. What do they enjoy best; small marine invertebrates called\u00a0opepods and amphipods. To create the ideal conditions for those invertebrates to even survive requires a huge tank that’s fully matured.<\/p>\n
If you do want to buy this fish, make sure you see it eating flaked food at the pet store before taking it home.<\/p>\n
Orange Spotted Filefish<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nNathan Rupert<\/a>\u00a0via Flickr.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
Again, this striking fish attracts amatuers due to it’s remarable colors, there’s a trend here right? It’s a rare find, even in specialist aquariums, but ocassionaly hits fish shops for between $30 – $60.<\/p>\n
This fish isn’t going to eat your normal fish food! It only eats a special coral:\u00a0Small-polyp stony (known as\u00a0SPS<\/em>) corals. <\/em>That coral is going to set you back a lot more than the price of this fish, possibly by a lot.<\/p>\n
Small-polyp stony (SPS<\/em>) Corals are incredibly hard to keep alive. That’s the first problem. The second, is that you will need to provide an environment for this coral to grow, because that’s the diet!<\/p>\n
It requires near perfect ocean conditions to be successful, and usually even experts can accommodate sufficient level of growth. It won’t eat what you want it to and many will die if SPS is not available. The only people that can successfully keep this fish are experts unlikely to be reading this article!<\/p>\n
Cleaner Wrasse<\/span><\/h2>\n
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