aloha from hawaii

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Howdy & Welcome to MFK!

Although Hawaii is pretty restrictive regarding what fish you can keep, we have a few Hawaiian members here with great tanks! What's you set-up?

HarleyK
 
Hiya and welcome to MFK, if you get tired of the fish in the pet stores try some natives or introduced fish like aholehole, kuhlia xenura, xenentodon cancilus, or the various O'opus.
 
i dont run salt water yet but if i did i fell in love with this blenny the cirripectes-vanderbilti

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The fish I mention have FW populations, a lot of the O'opus live and breed in FW but the eggs wash down to salt water to hatch and as soon as the fry leave the planctonic stage they move back upstream to mature. Here are two examples, the O'opu nakea (Awaous guamensis) that reaches 10", and the O'opu alamoo (Lentipes concolor) that only gets 2 3/4" long and is found above Akaka Falls on the Big Island. Both pics are by Stender.

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