The Pajama Cardinalfish is absolutely gorgeous with a greenish-yellow face and bulbous blood red-orange eyes. The midsection is silver with bold, black scalar margins and the rear of the body is silver with orange-purple polka-dots!

For the Pajama Cardinalfish, a 30 gallon or larger aquarium with a cave and peaceful tank mates is suitable for this slow and methodical swimmer. The Pajama Cardinalfish tends to hide in sea grass or other plants, or may use long spined urchins for camouflage. If a larger aquarium is available, it will handle a small group of this species. As a group, they will establish a strict hierarchy without aggressiveness.

The Spotted Cardinalfish grows up to 3 inches and does not require any special care and as such they are well suited as a tank breed. The only condition posed is a kind of water. The Spotted Cardinalfish require high quality water with specific gravity ranging between 1.020 and 1.025. pH between 8.1 and 8.4 and temperature ranging between 72 and 78° F.

The Pajama Cardinalfish is a long-standing favorite in the aquarium trade and in the home aquarium, small groups can be kept with the decor having various crevices, and cave like ledges.

The Pajama Cardinalfish requires a well balanced diet of meaty foods such as feeder shrimp, flaked foods, pellet foods, marine flesh, bloodworms, and depending on its size, live feeder fish.

Royal Gramma ~ Fairy Basslet

The Royal Gramma is simply stunning. Its front half is a rich magenta while the back half is a bright yellow-orange. The Royal Gramma has a thin dark stripe that runs from its snout through its eyes.There is also a single black spot at the front of its dorsal fin. In the wild, Royal gramma's are found around the Caribbean Sea where they are quite common and will grow to about 3 inches at maturity.

As far as temperament goes, the Royal Gramma is a good candidate for just about any aquarium. As long as they have established themselves in a cave or niche within the tank, they are peaceful.  Royal grammas tend to not bother or be bothered by other fish, but will vigorously guard their favorite hiding places.  They will open their mouths very wide in a threatening gesture to ward off intruders.  May be kept in groups given enough room so that they are not crowed.  At least a 20 gallon tank should be used for the Royal Gramma and they are a site attached fish, so they don't really move around all that much. Expect to see them near their caves at all times and Royal Grammas will breed in the reef tank.

Royal grammas are reef safe. They are strictly carnivores in the wild that pick on passing plankton and copepods.  In your aquarium, feed them a good mix of meaty foods like mysis shrimp, krill and even chopped bits of shrimp, oysters, squid and fish. Avoid feeding too much squid as they tend to develop fatty livers.  Prime Reef by Ocean Nutrition is especially noteworthy as it contains a wide variety of sea foods plus added trace minerals and vitamins.  The Royal Gramma generally start feeding within days of introduction to a new aquarium environment. Let them establish themselves in a hole or cave somewhere and then try feeding

Six Line Wrasse
Sixline Wrasse ~ Six Stripe Wrasse ~ Pyjama Wrasse

The colorful and vibrantly stunning Six Line Wrasse is small, active, and hardy making it a very popular fish to spark up a small to large marine aquarium!

The Six Line Wrasse is one of those fish that most aquarists at one time or another have seen and thought, "that is a cool fish"! And cool they are. They are quite hardy, disease resistant, and long lived. Once acclimated the Six Line Wrasse will even help control a few pests, like the pyramidellid snails and commensal flatworms that some coral keeping aquarists have to deal with at times. The Six Line Wrasse has also been observed cleaning the fins and bodies of other fishes, picking off parasitic isopods and copepods.

The Six Line Wrasse is both beautiful and active. With its six distinct, horizontal blue lines overlaid against an orange body, this member of the Labridae family brings a major intense zip of color to any marine reef aquarium. This is especially true when a courting, male Six Line Wrasse displays an increased color intensity. However, it is the active darting amongst rock outcroppings and corals that most attracts the Six Line Wrasse to any onlooker.

Also known as the Sixline or Sixstripe Wrasse, Pseudocheilinus hexataenia is native to reefs of the Indo-Pacific and the coast of Fiji. Here, the Six Line Wrasse forages amongst corals and rocks for foods, mainly keeping to itself. In the home aquarium, the Six Line Wrasse requires a peaceful environment with a generous supply of hiding places and live rock on which they can forage for food. Here, the Six Line Wrasse will search for live foods in the form of small crustaceans such as pyramidellid snails (clam parasites), urchins, and commensal flatworms. The Six Line Wrasse is also known to feed on unwanted pests on live rock, such as bristleworms.

Though generally peaceful, the Six Line Wrasse may act aggressively towards peaceful Wrasses and other easily-intimidated fish, especially if inadequately fed or if its habitat is void of places in which it can hide.

The Six Line Wrasse diet should include vitamin enriched frozen mysis shrimp, vitamin enriched frozen brine shrimp, and other meaty foods along with a high quality marine flake and marine pellet food.

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