Saltwater Oddballs

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...

Purple Dottyback The Purple Dottyback, also called the Orchid Dottyback,  is a great addition to any nano fish tank and larger fish tank which do n...

Longhorn Cowfish are found in Indo-Pacific, usually in the less turbid waters. The body is tan to yellow and covered with white and blue dots, and ...

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

Yellow Foxface Rabbitfish The Foxface Rabbitfish can look discolored when it is acclimatizing to a new home and this should not be perceived as ill...

The venom of the lionfish, delivered via an array of up to 18 needle-like dorsal fins, is purely defensive. It relies on camouflage and lightning...

Banggai Cardinalfish   Also known as Kaudern's or Longfin Cardinal, the Banggai Cardinal are a bit more aggressive than the similar Pajama Cardinal...

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 c...

Peppermint Shrimp Also known as Veined Shrimp and the Caribbean Cleaner Shrimp, is a staple in the marine aquarium industry. They are proficient el...

Yellow Cubicus  The Yellow Boxfish is very shy upon introduction and will likely refuse food for the first few weeks in a new aquarium. It will see...

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

Porcupine Puffer These fish are found in shallow temperate and tropical seas worldwide. A few species are found much further out from shore, wherei...

Panther Grouper  The humpback grouper is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 70 cm. Its particular body shape makes this grouper quite impossible...

Banded Shark Eggs A banded shark egg will require sand as the substrate in the aquarium, as the abdomen is easily scratched by a coarser substrate....

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

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

Red Volitan Lionfish The red lionfish, like all lionfish, carried venom delivered via an array of up to 18 needle-like dorsal fins, is purely def...

Boxfish and Cowfish are thought by some hobbyists to be too difficult to keep. While theses fishes do require careful attention in their dietary an...

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

Sweetlips Clown Grunt Also known as the Clown Sweetlips and Harlequin Sweetlips, changes its body colors at is matures. As a juvenile it features 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...