Category 5
Venom
Beautiful but dangerous, Lion fish family of the Scorpaenidae. Foxfaces of the family of Siganidae, though these herbvirorous grazzers are armed with venomous dorsal spines. Other is the Coral Catfish (Plotosus lineatus).
Among the invertbrates, the Blue ringed Octopus, Deadly and intelligent. Urchins by the looks it is already a notice to stay away, prickly and painful.
Not venomous but toxic. Dislike the taste of bittergound, cough mixture, these are worse, puffers of the family of Tetraodontidae have toxic on their flesh. Humans have known to have died from consuming their flesh.
Toxic secretion is also dangerous, it can destroy your setup. When stress or bitten, these species release toxic that can pollute the aquarium. These include boxfishes and truckfishes.
Electric shock ? the Electric Ray enough to knock the lights out of you.
Final word, exercise extreme caution when handling them and or best stay away.
Category 6
Natural lifespan is short.
If lifespan is short, why pay to keep. This category includes the Octopus, which survive 1 to 3 years. The Female is known to die after young hatch. Seahorses, for heaven sakes, leave this delicate horse to the ocean. They demand Live food and diligent care and the survive only 1 to 3 years. Nudibranch, many hobbyist are suckers to this species. With life span of less than 1 year why bother.
Category 7
Special requirements
This category holds the largest quantity of species regularly seen in the trade. They have specialised dietary requirement ? Butterflys, Short-bodied blenny and orange-spotted filefish. The clown sweetips that feeds at night and a variety of invertebrates and generally refuse to eat in the fish tank. The list goes on and on, below are the list of fish with special dietary needs:
1. Mimic blennies
2. Short-bodied blennies
3. Shrimpfish
4. Golden-striped butterfy
5. Exquisite butterfly
6. Bennet butterfly
7. Speckled butterfly
8. Guenther butterfly
9. Spotted butterfly
10. Orange face butterfly
11. French butterfly
12. Arabian butterfly
13. Meyer?s butterfly
14. Black-spotted butterfly
15. Eight-stripped butterfly
16. Ornate butterfly
17. Blue-blotched butterfly
18. Four-spot butterfly
19. Rainford?s butterfly
20. Reticulated butterfly
21. Ovalspot butterfly
22. Triangular butterfly
23. Three Striped butterfly
24. Chevron butterfly
25. Redfin butterfly
26. Zanzibar butterfly
27. Clown Sweettips
28. Tamarin wrasses
29. Hawaiian Cleaner wrasse
30. Tube-lip wrasses
31. Leopard wrasses
32. Flasher wrasses
33. Pencil wrasses
34. Stehojulius wrasses
35. Purple Tilefish
36. Organe-spotted filefish
37. Red Sea Orange-spotted filefish
38. Blue and black ribbon eels
39. Red-finned batfish
40. Boyle?s angelfish
41. Multi-barred angel fish
42. Bandit angelfish
43. Rock beauty angelfish
44. Regal angelfish
45. Parrotfish
46. Moorish idol
Whew what a list. Please consider if you can meet the dietary needs before bringing them home.
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