dottyback

We've wanted an orchid dottyback, love their coloration and their lively, sassy faces/personalities- finally found one at our LFS so brought it home to our tank about a week ago. It hid in the rocks for the first couple of days so much we named it Carmen (as in where in the world is Carmen San...

I have a 26g tank with a pair of clowns that have turned mean and nips at new fish that are timid. For example pajama cardinal and fire fish. These fish just stay there and let the clowns eat their fins. I wanna add one more fish that would take the other end of the tank cause my clowns only...

There is a group of fish that aquarium geeks like us have a complicated relationship with; they go by a few different names, Pseudochromis, Dottyback, and even sometimes... Basslet. We love them all for their incredible durability, ease of care, brilliant colors and extraordinary activity. In...

Okay team - I’ve had an indigo dottyback for some time now named Bandit. I got him super tiny and he’s now a big boy. I’ve also noticed that he has maybe become kind of evil. I believe he’s responsible for the loss of my peppermint shrimp (RIP Pepsi) because I’ve now seen him picking at hermits...

I purchased a royal dottyback and a six line wrasse in my tank along with some tangs and clowns i had in there before i added those 2. Noticed it went quick to hide as did the six line wrasse I bought it friday and maybe seen it saturday and haven't seen since I was told they go into hiding for...

Hi, I have a Fluval Evo 5. The tank has been running for about 6-7 months now, absolutely no issues until now. I had a pike blenny and a elongate dottyback (too small of a tank and overstocked, I know, was planning on moving them to a 16 gallon) until both vanished one day. I pulled apart the...

I need advice! I got this dottyback a few weeks ago, and I saw some white patches on its side yesterday! Above its anal fin looks weird too. I just put it in a spare 5 gallon, and am planning on using kanaplex with 90 percent weekly water changes. Is this enough? Any idea what the cause is? This...

Hello all! So a while back I got one of my dream fish, a super young springeri dottyback. Super cute dude, aquacultured, love him. I quarantined him with a Flametail blenny, and introduced the two together into their tank. A couple of times the flametail has chased the dottyback off, but other...

We have had our dottyback for a few months and he’s always stayed in a little cove and swam throughout the rockwork. Today we noticed him going under a rock and digging it out and spitting the sand toward the back of the tank. Is this typical behavior for a dottyback?

Hey guys and gals, I’m looking at setting up a 10g frag tank and am considering one fish along with some snails for algae. The fish for pests. I’m leaning towards a sixline turbos and hermits, but, I also like dotty backs specifically the Arabian and orchids. The main “pest” I have is bristle...

Hello all! So yesterday I purchased a fish I’ve been wanting for a long time, a baby Springeri Dottyback. I also purchased a Firefish (with the assumption that the Dottyback would be too young to be aggressive to the adult Firefish. Anyway, I put the two into a bucket last night after I got them...

Love my kids - love my tank. So yesterday I scooped up my kids (4, 6, 10 & 11 years old) to the LFS for family fish-a-palooza. I had a solid idea on how I wanted to direct them and what fish would end up in my new 110g upgraded reef. Most of my solid ideas become mushy - especially when my...

I was wondering if anyone has experience with ring eye dottybacks and if they would have issues with a fire fish or barnacle blenny?

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I have had freshwater for a while but about half a year ago got a saltwater tank that I adore, inhabitants are 2 clowns a purple dottyback and a steinitz goby pistol shrimp pair along with my CUC. I only have a couple corals, a Kenya tree, a Cyphastrea, some zoas and palys I think (both the...

I have a Red Sea Max E-170 (34G Display) with a pretty well-established ORA Black Ocellaris Clownfish and an equally well-established ORA Orchid Dottyback. My clownfish is the boss of the tank and makes sure the Dotty knows it whenever she swims over to his side. I successfully kept a Yellow...

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Just picked up a dottyback and blenny from lfs, I wanna quarantine before putting them in my dt. What medication is safe for them, I will be quarantining in the same tank. meds on hand : Cupramine Ruby reef rally Paraguard Metroplex any advice on how to quarantine these guys would help thanks!

Hi everyone, I’m finally heading to my LFS today for getting 2 fish for my Waterbox 35.2 (23G display, 33G system) I would like to get a longnose (or Falco) hawkfish and an orchid dottyback. Do you think they can get along in the tank? They Will be the only inhabitants of the tank.

So I’m probably getting a 50 gallon cube soon, and this is my planned stock list It’s going to be a SPS dominated tank, it’s going to be mainly classic SPS like Bali greens and pink millies. -Comet aka marine betta (too big?) -algae blenny (too hungry? Will it irritate the corals) -sankey or...

I’ve been reefing for like 8 years and I’ve never had clownfish. I just setup a smaller tank to move my last remaining damsel out of my 32 gallon. I plan to restock it with a pair of clowns, an orchid dottyback, a corris wrasse, and some pajama cardinals. Is there a species of clown I should get...

I’m looking at getting a pair of clownfish for my 32 gallon. Is there a species I can get that won’t be belligerent toward other tank mates? I plan on adding some pajama cardinals, an orchid dottyback, and possibly some type of corris wrasse to the tank. Should I go with a solo clownfish? I had...

I’ve got a 32 biocube led. I just lost my engineer goby and my only fish in there is a four stripe damsel. Can I add a six line without him bullying my damsel to death so I can get some color? Or should I go with a different wrasse? I need something that can deal with my four stripe and still...

Hi guys, I may have a problem. I have a cleaner shrimp who lost 3 legs and all of his antennas have been cut short. I am not sure if my fish is nipping at it or if it’s being caused by my circulation pump...or something else? I have a fluval 13.5 evo and my circulation pump is somewhat close to...

Hello Guys, Were moving out of the state within the year. I’m selling the set-up equipments and livestocks. But have to sell the livestocks before I can ship or have the equipments picked up. Buy more to save. Livestocks are for pick up only unless you want to pay for shipping and shipping...