Recent content by mpedersen

Hey all - I greatly appreciate your enthusiasm and support. Keep sending the good vibes towards this project; the entire reef keeping hobby will thank you for the positive thoughts! I hate to pick on you guys (and really, truly, it's not picking) but there was so much misinformation in the...

Good clownfish species or fish species in general? I'll answer both. Normal Ocellaris is bar none, the bread and butter. Breeds faster than most, always in demand on some level, and very rewarding early on. Way different than true percs. Clownfish in general teach you the fundamentals of...

I don't work with "designer" clown pairs, although for a while I owned both a pair of White Tip Clownfish (F2 generation of Amphiprion polymnus X sebae) and Some "Halfblack" Ocellaris that simply later proved to be normal Black Ocellaris. Both were pairs given to me by Joe Lichtenbert. The...

So I looked into your examples of "male dominant" breeding. First the koi. No sooner did I find information suggesting that male contributes color and female contributes conformation, than I found other articles suggesting that these notions are myths and that both fish contribute to both, and...

Ah, I thought that could be it too, but wasn't sure. LOL... I tried to keep the fish male basically the whole first year. I had many reasons, one is the rumor/myth that the striping comes from the male. I have no clue where that thinking came about, but I have my theory that it stems...

Just doing a bit of myth-busting ;) 1. One other was captured in 2008. It is apparently not alive. 2. The one pictured, the one I own, was not "just sold" for $2,500. I have owned it for well over a year now. Indeed, I do still have it. And man, I need to do an update on the blog -...