Show me your experiences with difficult fish to keep or expert only fish.

[Viking_Reefing]

I’ve added some stuff since last I posted in this thread, mainly a couple of leopard, orange spotted file fish, wrasses, pipefish and a couple of obligate corallivore butterflies (trifasciatus and melapterus).

I still stick by my sentiment that there are hardly any difficult fish. The corallivores were definitely very tricky fish to acclimatize and wean on to prepared foods…does that make em difficult? Nope. Plop em in to Adam Sandler tank and they can snack on corals to their hearts content.

Unfortunately I lost the melapterus after a couple of months. It came in with some sort of a bacterial infection that I never managed to get rid of. The exterior would healed fairly well but after a necropsy I saw that it had an internal infection as well that finally did it in. dang shame to as I had it eating pellets.

 

[LaloJ]

I’ve added some stuff since last I posted in this thread, mainly a couple of leopard, orange spotted file fish, wrasses, pipefish and a couple of obligate corallivore butterflies (trifasciatus and melapterus).

I still stick by my sentiment that there are hardly any difficult fish. The corallivores were definitely very tricky fish to acclimatize and wean on to prepared foods…does that make em difficult? Nope. Plop em in to Adam Sandler tank and they can snack on corals to their hearts content.

Unfortunately I lost the melapterus after a couple of months. It came in with some sort of a bacterial infection that I never managed to get rid of. The exterior would healed fairly well but after a necropsy I saw that it had an internal infection as well that finally did it in. dang shame to as I had it eating pellets.

Sorry for the late reply, sorry for your melapterus butterfly. I have taken a step back from keeping difficult fish at the moment, Venustus angel and Multibarred angel have recently been available but the heat in my area is too much, we have had 43°C at times and I'm finding lukewarm water in my tanks at times, so it's impossible to successfully keep these fish in these temperatures, in fact I'm worried about it.