Saltwater Oddballs

Angler Fish The angler fish is an obvious ambush predator, looking more like a rock than a fish. The angler fish is the ultimate predator fish. The...

Arrow  Crab Arrow crabs are also called the Spider Crab due to the obvious similarities. The Arrow Crab inhabits reefs from Indonesia to Mexico and...

Bamboo Shark The Bamboo Shark or Whitespotted Bamboo Shark or Brown-spotted Cat Shark is one of the more popular exotic pet fish in the saltwater a...

Banded Cat Shark Black Banded Cat Shark is known as a Cat Shark because the barbels at the mouth look like cat whiskers. It is also referred to as ...

Banded Pipefish Banded Pipefish are found living in and near rocky outcrops and reef formations throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific region. They a...

Banded Shark Eggs It requires sand as the substrate in the aquarium, as the abdomen is easily scratched by a coarser substrate, thus causing infect...

Bicolor Dottyback The bright and beautiful Bicolor Dottyback is a good addition to nano tanks and larger tanks which do not have large aggressive t...

Fiji Bicolor Foxface  Bicolor Foxface, also called the Bicolored Foxface or Uspi Spinefoot, has a unique body coloration. The front two-thirds of t...

Bicolor Goatfish  Bicolor Goatfish have a burgundy anterior and yellow posterior divided by a white band. There is a black dot on the posterior por...

Big Eye Catalufa   The Popeye Catalufa Soldierfish, also known as the Bigeye Soldierfish, and is a burnt orange to red color with several white hig...

Black Cap Basslet  Black Cap Basslet, or simpler Blackcap Basslet or Blackcap Gramma,  is a deep water species found throughout the Caribbean. Its...

Black Ribbon Eel Black Ribbon are the same species as blue ribbon eels, so both these fish are often just called "ribbon eels". Some eels will live...

Black Seahorse -Tank Raised The Black Seahorse, also called the Lined Seahorse, is considered by many hobbyists to be the most attractive of all th...

Blue Line Grouper Often willing to accept not only a captive diet, but to learn to eat from the hand of the aquarist is endearing. Groupers are amb...

Blue Spotted Rabbitfish The Blue Spotted Rabbitfish is actually a yellow fish but the species gets more and more blue spots as it ages. Rabbitfish ...

Blue Spotted Stingray Commonly referred to as the blue-spotted fantail rays, blue spotted stingrays, blue spotted rays, and ribbontail stingrays, t...

Bluestripe Pipefish The Blue Stripe Pipefish, or Bluestripe Piptefish, is smallest of the reef pipefishes available in the aquarium hobby. It has a...

California Stingray The  California Stingray, or Haller's Round Ray, is a species of round ray, family Urotrygonidae, found in the coastal waters o...

Coral Hogfish  The Coral Hogfish is also known as Eclipse Hogfish or Mesothorax Hogfish.  Juveniles are burgundy with yellow spots and as they deve...

Cortez Stingray The Cortex Stingray, also known as the Spotted Round Ray, is a bottom dwelling fish, with a tan body with dark brown spots. The tai...

Dampiera Grouper The Dampiera Grouper is commonly known as Red Grouper, Dampiera Dottyback and Fire-tail Devil. The Red Dottyback is a member of th...

Diana Hogfish  The Diana Hogfish, or the Spotted Hogfish, is a reddish-orange color with white spots on the back along the dorsal fin. The Diana Ho...

Dwarf Fuzzy Lionfish  The Fuzzy Dwarf Lionfish is also called the Shortfin Lionfish or simply the Dwarf Lionfish. The Fuzzy Lionfish has red, white...