Unique and Exotic Fish

[Kasrift]

That's is amazing. What an amazing set-up. Super OG. Man, Im jealous. He turned that into art. That little garden for them is so cool.

Sooooo cool. I ordered a plexiglass box that I can glue rock to and add to my tank, just not sure if that is the route I want to go.

Btw, what kind of boxfish? I saw this for the first time the other day.

Black Boxfish - available online at Aquarium Fish Depot

Learn more about Black Boxfish and other fish available for sale at AFD and delivered to your door. Order your healthy and beautiful fresh and salt water aquarium fish, shrimp, corals, plants, and more today at AFD.

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Also, check out UniqueFins, online vendor for people like Andrew Sandler.

 

[Elira_6301]

Sooooo cool. I ordered a plexiglass box that I can glue rock to and add to my tank, just not sure if that is the route I want to go.

Btw, what kind of boxfish? I saw this for the first time the other day.

Black Boxfish - available online at Aquarium Fish Depot

Learn more about Black Boxfish and other fish available for sale at AFD and delivered to your door. Order your healthy and beautiful fresh and salt water aquarium fish, shrimp, corals, plants, and more today at AFD.

aquariumfishdepot.com

Also, check out UniqueFins, online vendor for people like Andrew Sandler.

Ostracion solorense- reticulated boxfish. Ill go have a looksy! Tyvm!

You have to show pics when you get done. Those eels are too cool. I really, really wanted one. Have you seen how they mate?

 

[Elira_6301]

A 14,000 dollar fish!?! My Gawd. I better go find a pole somewhere.

 

[Kasrift]

Ostracion solorense- reticulated boxfish. Ill go have a looksy! Tyvm!

You have to show pics when you get done. Those eels are too cool. I really, really wanted one. Have you seen how they mate?

Nope, assume it's goofy.

I love this thread because I like unique fish. Here is the 200g. Plumbing the sump this weekend hopefully.

Here is a quarantine tank condo.

Have rocks in a 10g on the left, 60g Aquaeon I'm with other rocks on the right, 10g Aquaeon in the office, upgrading from my 32g Fluval, and two 2g Aquaeons (one with shrooms and the other with love rocks).

I'll be happy to have the 200g up and move fish over, but everything needs to be verified by Dna tests to not carry any pathogens.

 

[Elira_6301]

Nope, assume it's goofy.

I love this thread because I like unique fish. Here is the 200g. Plumbing the sump this weekend hopefully.

Here is a quarantine tank condo.

Have rocks in a 10g on the left, 60g Aquaeon I'm with other rocks on the right, 10g Aquaeon in the office, upgrading from my 32g Fluval, and two 2g Aquaeons (one with shrooms and the other with love rocks).

I'll be happy to have the 200g up and move fish over, but everything needs to be verified by Dna tests to not carry any pathogens.

Thats going to be spectacular. I love the rock formation, the way you can see all the way around. Its beautiful. Well done my friend!

Id love a 200 gallon but all my tanks are in my room with me. 90g, 75g, 2x60g, 40g, 20g, 2x10g.... sigh. Im always busy in here.

 

[Elira_6301]

Someone wants attention..lol

 

[Kasrift]

Thats going to be spectacular. I love the rock formation, the way you can see all the way around. Its beautiful. Well done my friend!

Id love a 200 gallon but all my tanks are in my room with me. 90g, 75g, 2x60g, 40g, 20g, 2x10g.... sigh. Im always busy in here.

Back to unique fish, I think there are lots that are unique that don't break the bank. The orange spotted filefish i picked up today were $36 each.

I tried curious wormfish, but they both jumped (through netting) to their deaths on the first couple of nights. I'm going to try them again since they are goofy.

I'm hunting for red striped clingfish as well, you can pick them up for $30 when they are collected. I ordered a pair over summer, but the vendor said they looked too rough to send.

I was on the email list for an Atlantic sailfin blenny from KP aquatics and got an email they had them in, but missed the chance to buy them.

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Show and Tell!!

What is the most sought after, unique, exotic, or vibrant fish you own and what challenges have you had with it??

Just show me your fish, I dont care what it is.

Mine:

I have a Abdopus Octopus. His name is Louie. He's about 7 inches right now ( with his legs spread).

When I first got him, after opening his baggie, he grabbed me and explored my fingers for about 1 min before letting go. Not shy at all! I got him acclimated and released him in his 90 gallon home. That guy took off and I didn't see him again. I thought he died. So I took off the lids and was like, welp, guess he died.

3 weeks later Im laying on my bed doing whatever on my phone late at night. I keep the aqaurium right next to my bedside. And here this little terd is, sitting out on the back of the aquarium, chillin'!

Shocked!!

Now he comes out every evening to greet me. He comes straight to the bedside wall to stare at me, then to the top of the tank for hugs. We are very close. He's my little baby. This pic is how I see him every night, mean mugging me..

He only survived because I keep live foods in his tank. Emerald crabs, glass shrimp and lots of hermit crabs.

What do you have?

My 2 orange spotted blue file fish came from another hobbyist when they were so small that he had to get rid of them because his tank's occupants were too aggressive eaters. The little girls were paper thin with just protruding gill cover bones (cheekbones!) Over the time I've had them, they have doubled in length and quadrupled in thickness. They have also added spots to their lower fin, so now they are both males...

I have a magnificent foxface that arrived with PTSD. It wouldn't come out to eat with me in the room. This PTSD behavior took months to overcome, but eventually the foxface trailed my copperband butterfly fish around, seemed to be fine only if it could be within a dorsal fin of the CBB. We could tell the CBB was often annoyed by the foxface shadow, but a CBB's not very effective in fighting for its own personal space. Fast forward a couple years, and this foxface beauty swims alone, without worries and even greets me most mealtimes (lunch & dinner).

My most recent addition was a Red Sea Regal Angel and this beauty hid for 2-3 months in a cave, even during feedings. The sponges it was eating inside that center cave are now mostly gone, and this fish also has gotten comfortable coming out and swimming freely. This fish LOVES zoas... so I'm getting used to the bare spots where it has eaten all the zoas. We've named our Regal 'Mr Bitey' because so many zoas are gone. It eats them in rows, sort of like we'd eat corn on the cob. The fish is way more colorful than any zoa, and I knew going into this that potentially some coral eating problems - but fish over corals for me!

Weirdly, with the recent addition of this angelfish, my copperband butterfly fish has expanded its food selections from only mysis to much of the LRS Frenzy lines. I have been feeding that for years without the CBB paying it any attention, but as soon as the angelfish started leaving the cave to eat, the CBB also wanted to eat a more varied diet. My CBB began grabbing pieces of LRS that I feel are too big for it, yet its beak must have become stronger because it can tear apart food bits into parts that it can eat (those larger bits are intended for foxface). I'm a little worried my CBB is going to choke on the larger foods with this new behavior, despite there are still plenty of mysis in every meal portion.

Here is a recent photo of some of my babies:

 

[Kasrift]

My 2 orange spotted blue file fish came from another hobbyist when they were so small that he had to get rid of them because his tank's occupants were too aggressive eaters. The little girls were paper thin with just protruding gill cover bones (cheekbones!) Over the time I've had them, they have doubled in length and quadrupled in thickness. They have also added spots to their lower fin, so now they are both males...

I have a magnificent foxface that arrived with PTSD. It wouldn't come out to eat with me in the room. This PTSD behavior took months to overcome, but eventually the foxface trailed my copperband butterfly fish around, seemed to be fine only if it could be within a dorsal fin of the CBB. We could tell the CBB was often annoyed by the foxface shadow, but a CBB's not very effective in fighting for its own personal space. Fast forward a couple years, and this foxface beauty swims alone, without worries and even greets me most mealtimes (lunch & dinner).

My most recent addition was a Red Sea Regal Angel and this beauty hid for 2-3 months in a cave, even during feedings. The sponges it was eating inside that center cave are now mostly gone, and this fish also has gotten comfortable coming out and swimming freely. This fish LOVES zoas... so I'm getting used to the bare spots where it has eaten all the zoas. We've named our Regal 'Mr Bitey' because so many zoas are gone. It eats them in rows, sort of like we'd eat corn on the cob. The fish is way more colorful than any zoa, and I knew going into this that potentially some coral eating problems - but fish over corals for me!

Weirdly, with the recent addition of this angelfish, my copperband butterfly fish has expanded its food selections from only mysis to much of the LRS Frenzy lines. I have been feeding that for years without the CBB paying it any attention, but as soon as the angelfish started leaving the cave to eat, the CBB also wanted to eat a more varied diet. My CBB began grabbing pieces of LRS that I feel are too big for it, yet its beak must have become stronger because it can tear apart food bits into parts that it can eat (those larger bits are intended for foxface). I'm a little worried my CBB is going to choke on the larger foods with this new behavior, despite there are still plenty of mysis in every meal portion.

Here is a recent photo of some of my babies:

What did you do to get the orange spotted filefish eating?

 

[Fish Think Pink]

What did you do to get the orange spotted filefish eating?

The orange spotted filefish arrived from Dr Reef eating flake food for the other hobbyist I bought them from. For me, they quickly transitioned to the likely better thawed frozen foods (and live foods) variety I serve and stopped eating their flake foods within a week of arriving in my mixed reef 180. I had masstick on hand in case feeding was a problem, but they were eating on day 1 for me - the hobbyist gave me about 2 weeks worth of their flake food (don't remember brand, it came in a baggy). I think they were so thin both due to very young age and the heavy stocked aquarium where they couldn't keep up with the more mature and faster fish the other hobbyist had. He had either a clown tang or a clown trigger coming in and knew that would too much competition for these sweet little fish. My tank is pretty passive so they could stare at food for a while before tasting.

I got lucky.

 

[Aquariumaddictuk]

Exotic- Very strange, different, or unusual.

So outside of the usual animal that is mainstream bred. Like having a sphynx instead of a domestic long hair cat.

Reading this with my sphynx snoozing on my lap

 

[evilexotica]

Australian Blue Devil



won't allow the video any longer :crying-face:

 

[Elira_6301]

My 2 orange spotted blue file fish came from another hobbyist when they were so small that he had to get rid of them because his tank's occupants were too aggressive eaters. The little girls were paper thin with just protruding gill cover bones (cheekbones!) Over the time I've had them, they have doubled in length and quadrupled in thickness. They have also added spots to their lower fin, so now they are both males...

I have a magnificent foxface that arrived with PTSD. It wouldn't come out to eat with me in the room. This PTSD behavior took months to overcome, but eventually the foxface trailed my copperband butterfly fish around, seemed to be fine only if it could be within a dorsal fin of the CBB. We could tell the CBB was often annoyed by the foxface shadow, but a CBB's not very effective in fighting for its own personal space. Fast forward a couple years, and this foxface beauty swims alone, without worries and even greets me most mealtimes (lunch & dinner).

My most recent addition was a Red Sea Regal Angel and this beauty hid for 2-3 months in a cave, even during feedings. The sponges it was eating inside that center cave are now mostly gone, and this fish also has gotten comfortable coming out and swimming freely. This fish LOVES zoas... so I'm getting used to the bare spots where it has eaten all the zoas. We've named our Regal 'Mr Bitey' because so many zoas are gone. It eats them in rows, sort of like we'd eat corn on the cob. The fish is way more colorful than any zoa, and I knew going into this that potentially some coral eating problems - but fish over corals for me!

Weirdly, with the recent addition of this angelfish, my copperband butterfly fish has expanded its food selections from only mysis to much of the LRS Frenzy lines. I have been feeding that for years without the CBB paying it any attention, but as soon as the angelfish started leaving the cave to eat, the CBB also wanted to eat a more varied diet. My CBB began grabbing pieces of LRS that I feel are too big for it, yet its beak must have become stronger because it can tear apart food bits into parts that it can eat (those larger bits are intended for foxface). I'm a little worried my CBB is going to choke on the larger foods with this new behavior, despite there are still plenty of mysis in every meal portion.

Here is a recent photo of some of my babies:

Ador

Reading this with my sphynx snoozing on my lap

Awww. We both have a
Sphynx!!

 

[Elira_6301]

These just arrived!

 

[DylanE]

My Japanese dragon eel, Yoshi. He’s less than a foot but soon getting a tank upgrade to 300g.

 

[Elira_6301]

My Japanese dragon eel, Yoshi. He’s less than a foot but soon getting a tank upgrade to 300g.

Wowww!! Thats awesome

 

[Kasrift]

Australian Blue Devil



won't allow the video any longer :crying-face:

You have one of these?

 

[evilexotica]

You have one of these?

Yes

 

[Elira_6301]

Good morning @Red_Beard

 

[Reef Wizard]

Show and Tell!!

What is the most sought after, unique, exotic, or vibrant fish you own and what challenges have you had with it??

Just show me your fish, I dont care what it is.

Mine:

I have a Abdopus Octopus. His name is Louie. He's about 7 inches right now ( with his legs spread).

When I first got him, after opening his baggie, he grabbed me and explored my fingers for about 1 min before letting go. Not shy at all! I got him acclimated and released him in his 90 gallon home. That guy took off and I didn't see him again. I thought he died. So I took off the lids and was like, welp, guess he died.

3 weeks later Im laying on my bed doing whatever on my phone late at night. I keep the aqaurium right next to my bedside. And here this little terd is, sitting out on the back of the aquarium, chillin'!

Shocked!!

Now he comes out every evening to greet me. He comes straight to the bedside wall to stare at me, then to the top of the tank for hugs. We are very close. He's my little baby. This pic is how I see him every night, mean mugging me..

He only survived because I keep live foods in his tank. Emerald crabs, glass shrimp and lots of hermit crabs.

What do you have?

SO awesome

I have a build thread coming soon for a Bimac Octopus