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![]() sweet score mango. those are SPS eaters and love to eat the polyops of the SPS. that is their diet. I think Steve Sphelps had one to try out in his tank.. he loved the fish too. if you have them eating other foods that is awesome. maybe try brine and blood worms
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![]() Oxymonacanthus longirostris (Bloch & Schneider 1801), the Harlequin Filefish or Orange Spotted Filefish in the aquarium interest. The most commonly offered member of the family... and rarely alive for more than a week in captivity. In the wild almost only eats Acropora polyps.
The above is from wetwebmedia.com. I think it also appears in Fenners book "the Conciencious Aquarist" In my opinion this is one fish that should never be imported but should be left in the ocean. The LFS is not doing a good service to our hobby by doing so. I agree with the earlier poster that the fish are thinning. Please let us know your success or failure of keeping this fish. Wayne |
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![]() I really like these fish. I just was reading a thread on RC on how someone was/what feeding them. He was having good success with a certain dry food. Search for the thread and I'll see if I can find it again. Good luck with them.
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![]() This is pretty cool. Good work so far. Let see if we all can't help you be successful.
There is a great article here on getting picky angels to eat. The guy who wrote the article has weened some of the most difficult fish (mostly angels) to frozen using this technique. Basically the idea is to make a mush for foods and then freeze it onto whatever the fish normally eats. For instance he froze it onto empty clam shells; naturally, the fish would pick at it and start to eat. As the frozen food thawed, it would start to float into the water column and eventually they'd get used to eating right out of the water column during normal feeding time. I used the same trick to get my Potter's Wrasse to start eating and now have the fat bastard fully trained onto frozen. There is a famous collector in China who uses the same technique to acclimate all of his rare angels (like the $1000+ kind). I wonder if you could try the same trick with bare/dead acropora skeletons until they get used to frozen? Last edited by ScubaSteve; 05-16-2013 at 08:18 PM. |
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![]() Thanks for the comments! So far I'm having some good luck with these two, they are eating NLS pellets and Fauna Marin Pellets. They also started eating Cyclopeeze out of the water column yesterday, so that's awesome. I've noticed they are starting to grab the odd pellet out of water column as well, but for the most part I have to put the pellets onto the rocks so they can peck them off. If I don't do this my other fish usually end up with the pellets as they are so used to feeding this way they are better at it than the filefish.
I would agree that these fish may not belong in a LFS, BUT one could say that about a lot of fish in the stores.. The fact that there are numerous reports of people having these fish live years in their aquariums tells me it's possible for some people. Much like a Copper Band or Moorish Idol I suppose, to the credit of the LFS, they did have 'expert only' listed beside these guys. 12 days and going strong.. Thanks for the tips on how to get these guys eating, I'm definitely willing to try anything. Ideally I'd like them to be eating Pellets, PE Mysis, and Cyclopeeze as these are the mainstay's of my aquarium. (all out of the water column) I'm close but definitely not out of woods as they are not putting on weight very fast, but I'm confident it will come. |
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![]() I should mention that their tank mates include:
Amphiprion ocellaris (Clownfish) Pseudochromis aldabraensis (Neon Dottyback) Centropyge bispinosa (Coral Beauty Dwarf Angelfish) Pseudocheilinus hexataenia (Sixline Wrasse) Pterapogon kauderni (Banggai Cardinalfish) Chromis viridis (Blue/Green Chromis) They all get along great with the Coral Beauty being the Boss man. There is very little aggression in the tank. The only thing I've noticed is that the slightly bigger filefish lets the smaller one know it's the boss once in a while. Usually during feeding, or just after. (minor chasing) What's very interesting is that the Chromis is almost always hanging out with them. I think he think's they are strange cousins from the other side of the family. haha Last edited by Psyire; 05-20-2013 at 09:47 PM. |
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![]() I really hope you have success with your new additions...I had a lot of Nay Sayers when I got my cleaner wrasse people told me I don`t have a chance in a 25 gal tank with this fish....well 6 years later still going strong. Best of luck
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![]() Sitting in on this. Amazing fish.
More pics too !!! |