I originally had 3 of these Waspfish. About a year ago I lost track of one of them and don't know what happened to him. Then abut 6 months ago, another one disappeared and I never saw him leaving only one.
This morning I went into my Mancave and the tank was still dark. I got my flashlight to look in and see what the fish were doing.
Two Waspfish were sitting near the front just smiling at me. ne may have been in a cave in the back with eggs or maybe she was doing the macarena. I don't know.
So I figured they hunt at night and I got my gallon f soil that contains earthworms.
Last week I fed the earthworms some banana peels so they were all at the bottom and I had to dump the thing into another bucket to get them.
The worms are having a lot of fun because there are way more worms in there than I put there. And many small ones like an inch or smaller. Perfect waspfish food. I got one and quickly cut it in half. Half for each fish.
Now that all the other fish were sleeping, I figured it was the perfect time to feed them because my fish, especially my filefish will eat the worms as soon as they go in the water.
So I took one of my long basters and dropped a wriggling worm right under the nose of each fish..........Nothing. They just sat there looking at me and never touched the worms.
These fish are the weirdest fish and I can never tell when they want to eat but when they do, they will jump on anything.
Now I know not to waste my time trying to feed them at night.
I know, lousy picture but I took it in the dark with a flash. Those two red blobs are Waspfish
This is a better, daytime picture from before he disappeared
