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Here is the peaceful group. All fish featured in this post are the best community fish one can find. They are also all very hardy*
The blue-eye cardinals are not rare, but they are also not very common in stores as they are one of the pricier cardinals. on the other hand, the bangaii cardinal is almost reaching goldfish status in saltwater (the percula clown already has). They are hardy, peaceful, and very easy to breed. People can often rear young's in their tanks since they are mouth brooders.

The fire fish are elegant, and fun to look at. They are also very peaceful and hardy- so peaceful that you must not keep them with any aggressive fish, especially with an open top tank, because they can "fly" out of the tank with ease.

The ranfordii Goby is inexpensive, cute, low maintenance and hardy. I put an asteric on the word hardy previously because they do have a specific requirement- You must have sugar grained size sandy bottom as their main diet is filter feeding the sand. Crushed coral and larger grain aragonite sand won't do because they cannot take it through their gill.

7 Saltwater fishes you should never keep part 6

First of all, I apologize for the long pulse before I resume writing in this blog. The recent tragedy in my tank - All six clams passed away due to disease, has left me depressed for days. I had questioned my hobby like all other hobbyists who have experienced large amount of death in their tanks.

I wish to use my long overdue what not to keep fish article to resume my writing here.
The sixth species of fish that are commonly found in the aquarium trade but I recommend against purchasing is the Banggai Cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni).
You might see them very commonly available and comes in fairly low price. On top of that, they are truly easy to keep.

The real reason then behind why not to get them, is that they is only ONE place on earth these fish are found. They are found in the seagrass bed, usually near a large congregation of long spine seaurchins near the Banggai Archipelago of the Indonesian territory. With every fish you buy, there is one less in the ocean to reproduce and replace the already depleted population.

However, as you can see these fish are stunning to look at and they do exist peacefully in large congregations- making it a great community reef tank inhabitant. So how can we find them? Here is the saving grace- They breed easily and readily in the home aquarium. You can begin to find more and more "captive bred" or "locally bred" specimens available in local stores and online or among local hobbyists community forum. As a natural mouth brooder, their breeding habits resembles those of African Cichlids. If you have experience with African Cichlid breeding, you should have no trouble breeding them (provided you are willing to find food for the juviniles).