Keeping Saltwater Fish

Real saltwater fish, specifically the species in SereneScreen Aquarium are difficult to keep for several reasons. They need a wide variety of variously expensive foods and chemicals, an exhaustively clean tank requiring a lot of filtering equipment, routine chemical checks, watching for disease and health of the coral (when the fish are getting sick you can't tell by sight usually), and changing out some of the water every 3-4 weeks. All saltwater fish generally like a temperature of 77-79 °F and water pH of 8.1-8.3.

Most of the saltwater fish in SereneScreen Aquarium including the Tangs, Angels, and Butterflies all prefer to live on a diet of coral in the wild. If you were to own a real tank of a few of these fish, you'd have to feed them brineshrimp, frozen coral and vegetable matter, and other variously expensive foods. At some point, Jim wants to add the ability to feed the fish and also to add a behavior of the fish nibbling on the coral.

SereneScreen Aquarium Fish Guide

I have collected general information about each of the fish in SereneScreen Aquarium and organized it into a guide. I found list prices for most of the real-life counterparts of each of these fish at Flying Fish Express, who sell every fish on this site. (Addis Butterfly price from Aquacon.com). The Latin Fish Names website helped of course. Some fish have multiple common names. I put the name Jim uses at the top and other common names within the description. Please contact me if you find any inaccuracies or have extra information.

I found most of my fish behavior and compatibility information from Aqualink.com and Animal-world.com. Some of the fish in SereneScreen Aquarium would, in reality, be completely incompatible with some of the other fish in the tank. Jim wanted to create a tank as real as possible, but it's nice to be able to mix and match any type of fish we want without them attacking each other!

Printable SereneScreen Marine Aquarium Quick Reference Guide!

	Achilles Tang $65 Acanthurus achilles Distribution: Pacific Ocean Size: 12 inches Diet: Herbivorous Compatibility: Community
	Addis Butterflyfish $160 Chaetodon semilarvatus Distribution: Red Sea Size: 6 1/2 inches Diet: Omnivorous Compatibility: Community Other Names: Semilarvatus Butterfly, Golden Butterfly
	Blue Chromis Damsel $10 Abudefduf cyaneus Distribution: Indian and Pacific Oceans Size: 4 inches Diet: Omnivorous Compatibility: Territorial and aggressive (especially adults)
	Blue Ring Angelfish $115 Pomacanthus annularis Distribution: Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean Size: 10 inches Diet: Omnivorous, brine shrimp, sponge, vegetable matter Compatibility: Semi-Community
	Clearfin Lionfish $50 Pterois radiata Distribution: Australia, Indian Ocean, West Pacific Size: 8 inches Diet: Carnivorous (other fish!) Compatibility: Other Lions or larger fish, Spines are POISONOUS to smaller fish
	Clown Trigger $55 Balistoides conspicillum Distribution: Indian and Pacific Oceans Size: 20 inches Diet: Carnivorous, primarily on shelled invertebrates Compatibility: Aggressive, do not keep with smaller fish
	Copper-Banded Butterflyfish $23 Chelmon rostratus Distribution: Pacific Size: 6-7 inches Diet: Carnivorous, primarily on coral heads Compatibility: Community
	Imperator Angelfish $88 Pomacanthus Imperator Distribution: Great Barrier Reef, New Guinea, from the Red Sea and East Africa to Hawaii Size: 15 inches Diet: Invertebrates, coral heads, small crustaceans, some algae Compatibility: Semi Agressive
	Flame Angelfish $35 Centropyge loriculus Distribution: Pacific Origin: Indian Ocean Size: 5 1/2 inches (3 inches in captivity) Diet: Brineshrimp, mysis, live and frozen Compatibility: Community
	Forceps Butterfly $19 Forcipiger longirostris Distribution: Indian and Pacific Oceans Size: 7 inches Diet: Coral heads Other Names: Long Yellownose
	French Angelfish juvenile $55 Pomacanthus paru Distribution: Atlantic Size: 16 inches Diet: Brineshrimp, mysis, squid, sponge-based foods Compatibility: Semi-Community; Mostly peaceful to fish of same size
	Threadfin Butterfly $22 Chaetodon auriga Distribution: Pacific Size: 8 inches Diet: brineshrimp, mysis, lobster eggs, sponge-based foods, and small pieces of squid Compatibility: Semi-Community; Other Names: Auriga Butterfly, Golden Butterfly
	Koran Angel $29 Pomacanthus semicirculatus Distribution: Australia, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, West Pacific Size: 12 inches Diet: Omnivorous Compatibility: Community
	Red Volitan Lionfish $25 Pterois volitans Distribution: Australia, Indian Ocean, West Pacific Size: 15 inches Diet: Carnivorous (other fish!) Compatibility: Other Lions or larger fish, Spines are POISONOUS to smaller fish
	Redfin Butterflyfish $30 Chaetodon lunulatus Distribution: Pacific Ocean Size: 7 inches Diet: Coral
	Percula Clownfish (common) $11 Amphiprion ocellaris Distribution: Adaman Sea, Indo-Malayan Archipelegao, Philippines, northwestern Australia, Southeast Asia coast Size: 3 inches Diet: Omnivorous Compatibility: Territorial and aggressive (especially adults)
	Picasso Trigger $33 Rhinecanthus aculeatus Distribution: Pacific, Red Sea Size: 12 inches Diet: Carnivorous Compatibility: Aggressive Other Names: Huma Trigger
	Powder Blue Tang $55 Acanthurus leucosternon Distribution: Pacific Size: 10 inches Diet: brineshrimp, mysis, squid, maybe flake foods, main food is algae Compatibility: Semi-Community
	Purple Sailfin Tang juvenile $75 Zebrasoma xanthurum Distribution: Red Sea Size: 7 inches Diet: Herbivorous Compatibility: Semi-Community
	Queen Angelfish teenager $75-115 Holacanthus bermudensis Distribution: Atlantic Size: 21 inches Diet: Omnivorous, tends to eat coral! Compatibility: Semi-Community
	Regal Angel $86 Pygoplytes diacanthus Distribution: Red Sea, Pacific Size: 9 inches Diet: Omnivorous Compatibility: Semi-Community, very difficult fish to keep
	Regal Tang $26 Paracanthurus hepatus Distribution: Indian and Pacific Oceans from East Africa to Japan Size: 12 inches Diet: Herbivorous Compatibility: Semi-Community Other Names: Hippo Tang
	Rock Beauty Angelfish $37 Holacanthus tricolor Distribution: Tropical western Atlantic Size: 10 inches Diet: Mainly sponges, also coral, tunicates, algae Compatibility: Semi-Agressive
	Royal Gramma Basselet $13 Gramma loreto Distribution: West Atlantic Size: 3 inches Diet: brineshrimp, and mysis Compatibility: Community Other Names: Often confused as a Dottyback
	Squarespot Anthias $28 Pseudanthias pleurotaenia Distribution: Western and south Pacific Size: 8 inches Diet: Brine shrimp, flake food for carnivores Compatibility: Semi Aggressive as Adults
	Starfish $15 Asterias rubens Distribution: Northeast Atlantic, seas around Britain, Ireland Diameter: up to 5 1/2" Diet: Carnivorous grazer
	Three Stripe Damsel $2 Dascyllus aruanus Distribution: Indian and West Pacific Oceans, Red Sea Size: 2 1/2 inches Diet: Omnivorous Compatibility: Territorial, Aggressive as adults
	Wimplefish $17 Heniochus acuminatus Distribution: Indian and Pacific Oceans and Red Sea Size: 9 3/4 in. Diet: Omnivorous Compatibility: Semi-Community, prefers company of its own kind Other Names: Penant Butterfly, Poor Man's Moorish Idol, Bannerfish
	Yellow Tang $13 Zebrasoma flavescens Distribution: Pacific Size: 11 inches Diet: brineshrimp, mysis, squid, maybe flake foods, main food is algae Compatibility: Semi-Community

Photo Credits include Saltwater.8m.com and Jordan's Fish Tank. Yet another great website for fish snapshots is eTropicals.com.