Cool. They ARE very similar.
I guess you are feeding yours shrimp?
All i have are molly babies but they are gut loaded and healthy.
He gets ghosties/grass shrimp. I've caught him eating large pods as well which surprised me.
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Cool. They ARE very similar.
I guess you are feeding yours shrimp?
All i have are molly babies but they are gut loaded and healthy.
When you ordered from live aquaria, is that a wartskin or an assorted frog fish?
WOW! Mine is .75" and looks just like your's! I FINALLY got him to eat a ghost shrimp but OH MAN i spent all day working on that! Putting him in another smaller container made him nervous and not want to eat at all! I finally gave up and then when I was cleaning up dead shrimp in his tank I saw one was actually alive and jump next to him! I was like 'this is it...if its going to happen..." and it DID! My kids and I celebrated! It had been 4 days since he had eaten and we were getting nervous. I think I am going to order mollys to live in his tank until he captures something. He needs opportunity and the ghosts die too easily on him. Any other suggestions for what to keep in the tank.. it says snails somewhere but I can't imagine that! Do they eat the shell??? I've got small snails I could put in there....
The ghost shrimp would die and he would lose interest! IT WAS SOOOOO FRUSTRATING!!!
THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE ADVICE. I'm going to follow several things....i bought ghosties (more) today. my local guy was nice enough to sell them to me 12 for $3 (got 36), successfully avoiding petco and their parasites. I got like 8 guppies to start a steady supply of guppies for the frogfish and right now have them in a tank with a balloon molly so i will have to figure out if she should go with my goldfish instead or what. there is a spanish ribbed newt in that tank (kids' tank) so i'll have to see if they eat the guppies. oh and one zebra danio. i figure that many guppies should make that many more guppies and some could be eaten without affecting my goal of having enough for the baby frogfish. i guess i would acclimate a few at a time into the frogfish marine tank. would the baby guppies not be a good idea to acclimate? and i would have to do it over DAYS??? not just drip acclimate over a few hours??I keep my ghosties in a seperate fresh water tank and feed as needed, as you should anyway to manage feeding. I would drop a ghostie in and herd him and after he ate it, drop another. Now everything I drop in is eaten so fast that nothing dies. Ones that may get away I still see alive for days of he eventually catches them.
No matter how you keep the ghosties, they have a short life and die easily. I never acclimate my ghosties and feed 4 predator tank, I cant remember the last time I found a dead one in one of my tanks.