Marine fish guide real meanings

[marie]

I'll admit it, this was stolen from RC

Underneath is an explanation of what the brief descriptions in most marine fish guides actually mean.



If your new fish is, It will:


Large, colourfull and cheap: Will eat all your Corals

Large, dull and cheap: Will eat all your fish

Small, colourfull and cheap: Will eat all your Corals

Small colourfull and expensive: Will die in the bag on the
way home


Explanation of the traits of different species found in most books:
Description & Actually means:

Generally Reef Safe: Will Eat most of your Corals

Some individuals will nip at clam mantles: Only eats Clams


May nip at some LPS: Will eat all of your LPS and then dissapear untill
you replace them

May occasionaly nip at SPS polyps and clam mantles: Only eats clam mantles served on a platter of SPS polyps

May be quarrelsome: Heavily tatooed and carries a knife

May jump from open topped aquaria: You'd have more luck keeping a Budgie in there

Occasionaly reclusive: I'm sure I bought a new fish?

Won't bother sessile invertibrates: Scoffs all your hermits