Frogfish and golden dwarf eel as tankmates?

TimT · #1 05-09-2011, 03:32 AM

It gets disgusting when you see the fish still struggling inside the frogfish.

fishoholic · #2 05-09-2011, 03:49 AM

I can't see the frogfish being able to fully eat the eel, but he might try and end up taking a chuck out of the eel. Not a chance I'd take, even though there is also a possibility they might ignore one another. Hard to say for sure........

christyf5 · #3 05-09-2011, 04:07 AM

snackycakes

naesco · #4 05-09-2011, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by TimT

It gets disgusting when you see the fish still struggling inside the frogfish.

Well some people get their jollies from watching stuff like that.

Delphinus · #5 05-09-2011, 07:37 AM

I suppose, not me though.

Too risky, I won't do it. Beauty of a red though, which is a dream fish for me. Just wish I had a tank ready for him to go into by himself. Well I could, but he'd have to share with the eel, and the eel was something of a dream fish too. .. So, the idea ends there for now. Setting up another tank isn't in the cards, summer's coming! Or so goes the theory anyhow.

lastlight · #6 05-09-2011, 07:59 AM

POST 10! I like frogs!

sphelps · #7 05-09-2011, 02:06 PM

Previously had a frog fish with a ghost ribbon eel and never had an issue.

fishoholic · #8 05-09-2011, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

I suppose, not me though.

Too risky, I won't do it. Beauty of a red though, which is a dream fish for me. Just wish I had a tank ready for him to go into by himself. Well I could, but he'd have to share with the eel, and the eel was something of a dream fish too. .. So, the idea ends there for now. Setting up another tank isn't in the cards, summer's coming! Or so goes the theory anyhow.

Why don't you move the eel to the big tank and put mr froggy in the 65g by himself ?

Delphinus · #9 05-09-2011, 06:52 PM

The thought did occur to me, Laurie, and man alive, trust me, the temptation is strong.

However the whole reason he (the eel) is not in the big tank already is that he will be not be the easiest to feed in there since I (for better or for worse) designed the tank to not have any front access, and the back access, although it isn't too bad once the light rack is moved back, doesn't have any viewing except from the top. It would do very do-able in one sense but not the easiest thing to do either in the other sense and so I'm hesitant to go that way.

I came very close yesterday to moving him over though, and I still have ruled it out 100%. It's a careful decision, if I put him in there and later change my mind about it, it's going to be terrible trying to remove him from there.

Decisions, decisions!