Has anyone had any good experiences with orange spotted filefish? Or are they always a lost cause in the home aquarium?
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I’m interested in hearing your protocolI've successfully kept them and have a protocol for transitioning them from acro to other foods. Truly expert only fish...
I’m interested in hearing your protocol
Wow. I definitely can’t do that at this time in my lifePrep:
1. Have multiple SPS for OSF to snack on.
2. Have multiple coral skeletons to coat with food.
3. Have several live and prepared foods on hand (live brine, blood worms, frozen gut loaded brine, nutramar ova, LRS nano reef frenzy, selcon, nouri polyp, Repashy, and Masstick)
4. Be prepared to feed 4-6 times per day
5. Have an aquarium that you can maintain high water quality with heavy feedings.
Wow. I definitely can’t do that at this time in my life
great tips . . . love these fish. do you qt?There is a lot more to it...but those are the basic tools. I use a well established tank just to acclimate and ween these fish.
I didn't, but my updated protocol will be using tank transfer method. Long story behind this, but due to a ick outbreak in the observation tank with last batch of OSFs, I successfully weened one through a TTM. The survivor was later lost to a rookie mistake that led to an ammonia spike. So sad. It was so fat and healthy.great tips . . . love these fish. do you qt?
Thanks, sorry for that loss! gonna wait to try these guys again till my new tank is nice and stable for a while. Probably the coolest fish in the hobby in my opinion.I didn't, but my updated protocol will be using tank transfer method. Long story behind this, but due to a ick outbreak in the observation tank with last batch of OSFs, I successfully weened one through a TTM. The survivor was later lost to a rookie mistake that led to an ammonia spike. So sad. It was so fat and healthy.
they actually do not eat the whole coral to death, they eat one polyp and leave it alone for a long time, the corals are more of a living larder. there are also new speculations that they eat the animals on the coral. they only seem to target millies if they do eat coral. anyway, satisfying them with mysis snd other food should fill them up wellI saw one at World Wide Corals. They had the fish in a big tank with wall to wall acropora colonies. I guess one little file fish did not eat enough from any one colony to be a problem.
I would really love onethey actually do not eat the whole coral to death, they eat one polyp and leave it alone for a long time, the corals are more of a living larder. there are also new speculations that they eat the animals on the coral. they only seem to target millies if they do eat coral. anyway, satisfying them with mysis snd other food should fill them up well
Yea if I can find a pair from my LFS that eats mysis and other food I will get them to breed. Larvae are relatively big compared to other filefish about 2.5mmI would really love one