Orange Toad Fish?

[Awibrandy]

Can anyone give me some info. on the orange toad fish? I am considering one for my FOWLR tank.

 

[House of Laughter]

Very rare fish to find and likely should not be collected in the first place - I would stay away from it unless you plan on keeping an aggressive tank - will eat every fish you have unless they are aggressive as well - Lions eels etc)

House

 

[Domboski]

I've always kept toadfish (wild caught by me and an orange toadfish). Awesome fish. They like to hide. My experience with them is if you keep them happily fed, they won't eat your other fish (even the small ones). I feed mine freeze dried krill from a stick and live grass shrimp (They love grass shrimp). After a while, they are trained to get the shrimp off the stick. You won't even know where they are in the tank but as soon as the krill hits the water they shoot out from thier hiding spot and grab the shrimp.

As house mentioned, they can eat your fish though. IME, they would rather eat shrimp than fish. I have a toadfish in a tank with 4 camel shrimp and cleaners and he doesn't touch them. Grass shrimp is another story.

Let me know where you get the orange toadfish because I woulodn't mind getting my hands on another.

 

[marrone]

Not really that rare, though the Orange one don't always show up that often. Most store that get them usually have them for quite sometime as they're not that popular. They basically sit on the bottom of the tank waiting for food to come by, kind a like a lion fish. You need to make sure that they're eating prepared food as some don't always eat. The back spines are vemonous so you need to be careful when handling one. The do good with passive tank mates like Lion fish and you some like to hide in caves or under rocks. They also show up quite often at the fish market.


http://www.wetwebmedia.com/batrachoididae.htm
http://octopus.gma.org/fogm/Opsanus_tau.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toadfish
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3069&genusname=Opsanus&speciesname=tau

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I have an Orange Toad in the store been there for probably a year almost a store pet y now. If you want him I'll see what I can do for you. Let me know.

 

[Awibrandy]

I have an Orange Toad in the store been there for probably a year almost a store pet y now. If you want him I'll see what I can do for you. Let me know.

I sent you email.

 

[Awibrandy]

Thank you guys. I had one sometime ago, I didn't have any of the problems expressed here. When I bought it at FT I paid next to nothing for it. The family loved it, even my parents who are not big animal lovers. It was a very sad day when it died. All I was told was that it was poisonous, and that I should not step on it.:biggrin: I was hoping to get a little more info. like where they come from. Mine ate what ever I put in the tank. Didn't stay out all the time, but didn't hide all the time either.
I will be keeping it in my fowlr which houses a dog face puffer, ****** trigger, banana eel, honiochus. The toad will probably fish that little collection.