New Yellow Wartskin Angler 9Frogfish)

[Alex A]

So I finally asked my LFS to pick on of these guys up for me, tired of only seeing them on my dive trips and really wanted the Warty as i've only seen one once in the wild. They came thru with a fantastic specimen. He is a baby at about 3/4" in length, but a beauty!! He is about this big ___________
(Sorry, only way i could think of to describe how small). He arrived on Tuesday in my tank, and has been angling and walking all around since. it is hysterical and soo amazing, he walks around, finds a nice spot, normally with a hole or crevice in the live rock and starts louring right at the mouth of the hole, and casts his line right in there. I have noticed he has a few diff techniques: the cast and vibrate, the cast and jerk up and down, and the cast and move side to side---AMAZING lil creature!!! in the third pick, below the red dot for bearing, you can clearly see his lure suspended along his back with the rod down (not louring), I have an article that gives the correct name for line and lure, but am too lazy to look it up at the moment..lol. It has been difficult to get him to eat anything for sure, up until yesterday and today, where there were definite feeding reactions to mysis shrimp dripped over his head with a seasquirt and then blown around to create the free swimming motion of shrimp. Will not eat the frozen krill i have yet, but i will keep trying bits about half the size of an eraser. I'm just happy he ate the mysis. The LFS dudes got him to eat a feeder guppy, but i would rather stay away from fresh water feeder fish as i know they are diseased and not healthy. Here are some pics, wondering what u guys think, if any of you have kept them successfully or not, and what techniques have worked for you. Also wanted to mention that behind his lil fin feet (sorry don't know the correct name), on both sides, I notice a lil hole behind what would basically be his knee on his fin..lol. I assume this is where the water that passes through his mouth exits his body, much like a gill slit, as it is on both sides, makes sense to me, but I can't find any literature on it, anyone know for certain?

I love this guy, named him Frankie the frog...lol What do you think?

 

[al0ha]

Fantastic!!! I love frogfish!! Get a greenish sponge now and watch him perch and blend in

 

[Alex A]

Fantastic!!! I love frogfish!! Get a greenish sponge now and watch him perch and blend in

Thank you, I love them too!! I waited all of 8 years of diving to finally find my own, and of course, it was on a sponge blending right in! He finds the funniest places to sit, he sits right in the middle of my coral heads and uses them as cover...never kept a sponge, easy???

 

[FMF0331]

How amazing , i just picked up 2 of them from my lfs, size of a fingernail

 

[Alex A]

How amazing , i just picked up 2 of them from my lfs, size of a fingernail

SWEEET!!!LOL...Must be in season pics???

 

[FMF0331]

I'll post them tomorrow, my lil frogs are sleeping now.

 

[Alex A]

I'll post them tomorrow, my lil frogs are sleeping now.

Roger that, HAHA, let the babies, rest, ill tune in tomorrow for the pics.

 

[stbarnabas]

Nice

 

[duke62]

are they reef safe?

 

[Alex A]

are they reef safe?

Sure are as far as reef, but not fishes. Most literature says, they will eat any fish equal in size, some artciles even say double, but I don't really think they will finis that meal. He just climbs on and through my corals, don't eat or really harm them tho, and he perches right in my galaxia coral, so he pretty tough.. I would be cautious myself if I had an anemone, as they walk around and rarely swim unless in danger, or annoyed by a fish, sadly, mine passed away recently...the only thing, is you have to be willing, and patient, as i am learning, to get them to eat frozen food, like mysis. But since I got mine as a baby, i'm gona assume that increases my chances of weaning him onto frozen. Even tho he ate today, (frozen mysis) he is still walking around "fishing" with his lure, don't know if he is still hungry, or just doing it for practice and outa habit...but yes, they are reef safe, not fish or invert safe. My fish are all big, even the clowns...

 

[lanacane214]

He will eat that clown fish soon, they eat fish that are bigger then themselves l had one and he ate a scooter bleeny that was much bigger then him,be died a couple of weeks later probably cause of the scooter blenny,good luck tough

 

[rookie07]

Very cool! Great looking baby clown angler!

 

[OOtzie]

Mine ate my bi colored blenny that was 2x bigger than the angler ... Be careful

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Anything in the tank is in jeopardy of being eaten. Also it will perch on your corals and may smother them. Very important to remember that you didn't allow it to gulp any air during the transfer as well.

 

[FMF0331]

Frogs

Quick shots of my lil frogs.

 

[al0ha]

Aw man now i want to set up a frogfish tank!! Stop it!

 

[lfsmarineguy]

FMF- Frogs will cannibalize equal size frogs if the opportunity presents itself.

The opening on their "knee" is the "exhaust" from their concealed gills. Part of their camouflage are internal gills which reduces movement that would give them away when they're waiting in ambush. It also serves as propulsion so they can appear to drift and not have to use their fins when approaching prey. These guys are like a balloon with a mouth and that stomach can expand to several times it's own size to accomodate huge meals so nothing in the tank is safe with these.

 

[FMF0331]

LFS marine guy, thank you for the input. I have the frogs in a tank of their own.

 

[Mattl22]

What u feeding it?? I had a leaf fish once but would only eat live fish

 

[FMF0331]

They're eating mysis and brine shrimps - very happy they took to the food right away