I never had issues with keeping either. Kept a long horned cow fish and yellow box fish for years without issues.Box Fish or Cow Fish.
They do better when housed with other non aggressive fish and in tanks of lower flow though.
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I never had issues with keeping either. Kept a long horned cow fish and yellow box fish for years without issues.Box Fish or Cow Fish.
+1 Leopard Wrasse
Scared of its own shadow and after acclimation, difficult to even get eating live food.
The stars have to align with high quality water, perfect sandbed, no other intimidating fish, great endless supply of pods.
They are absolute PITAs. 100%
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I think you winWhale shark.
:3
Might be a bit egoistic, but I think I gotta agree. I think I did select the largest fish currently extant. I think.I think you win
People have success feeding it frozen and other thingsOrangespot filefish, no experience with these guys there's no need to be a rocket scientist to know that a fish that only eats SPS polyps (and they love Acro polyps from all the SPSs out there) and won't accep't anything else ain't gonna be easy at all. Some specimens just eat Acro polyps and nothing else, like, not even Monti or Seriatopora's polyps (which are much easier to take care than Acro), JUST Acro polyps, nothing else.
Also, from all the Acros out there, they will nip at Milleporas to a point that you can actually lose a colony because a OSFF (orange spot filefish) was nibbling at the Mille so much that it's skeleton was peeled off from the tissue. In fact, they like Milles so much that a OSFF that devoured every single Millepora in the reef tank would rather starve to death rather than eating any other species of coral, let that sink in just how picky they are.
+1 Leopard Wrasse
Scared of its own shadow and after acclimation, difficult to even get eating live food.
The stars have to align with high quality water, perfect sandbed, no other intimidating fish, great endless supply of pods.
They are absolute PITAs. 100%
.
thats a shipping issue mainly and having a food they will readily eat , the new chroma boost pellets work a treat i got my idol a year ago and had him eating them within half an hour hes fat as healthy and beautiful but i have no zoos left lol
It ain't a easy task tho, specially if the fish tank contain Acropora, specially if said Acro is a MilleporaPeople have success feeding it frozen and other things
Probably true in general, but I had some friends catch one clamming in the Great South Bay south off Long Island, NY back in 1976. They brought it to me in a bucket full of eel grass and water.A wild caught sea horses
I love these guys so much! They're so other-worldly. That's amazing you had him for so long!Probably true in general, but I had some friends catch one clamming in the Great South Bay south off Long Island, NY back in 1976. They brought it to me in a bucket full of eel grass and water.
I had him for several years and he used to curl around my finger so I could fend off the other fish and feed him slices of clam.
He had to be tough with his tankmates, but developed some issues as he got older, including lesions. He would come to my finger, I would take him out of the tank and my wife would treat him with mercurichrome (not sure of the spelling). Notice the plastic plants and bleached coral. This was a long time ago.I love these guys so much! They're so other-worldly. That's amazing you had him for so long!
That's what I also find amazing is that you had him for that long back then!!!!! Kudos to you and your wife. My dream tank is to have a bunch of these guys (the dwarfs because I have no room to even keep a pair of the big ones). Seahorses, sea dragons and gobies are my favorite.He had to be tough with his tankmates, but developed some issues as he got older, including lesions. He would come to my finger, I would take him out of the tank and my wife would treat him with mercurichrome (not sure of the spelling). Notice the plastic plants and bleached coral. This was a long time ago.