Wartskin Angler: My new buddy

[rookie07]

thanks chief....
im starting to get worried now....I didnt think it would go after fish bigger than itself....ok, here we go...


Thanks everyone....I need silversides

 

[grknyer]

... that is booty-fuLLy ugLy!

For anybody who saw the episode of Seinfeld that took place in the Hamptons with the baby I'd say a more appopriate term used to describe this fish would be "Breathtaking".
J/k Phil
Cool looking fish.Best of luck and head over to Anthony at petland for some silversides.

 

[ellebelle]

They definitely eat fish larger than themselves. What other fish do you have in the tank with it other than the firefish? If it's anything you want to keep, you might want to set up a small holding tank until you can figure out what to do with them.

 

[rookie07]

2 clowns...they will be goig to sean's apt for a little while

 

[Domboski]

My large angler ate an Achilles Tang :eat: . You should be able to get them on frozen pretty easy. I'd go with a cheap live source of fish like Chromis. After a couple of feedings of live chromis, start introducing dead chromis on the end of the feeding stick. The angler should gobble them up rather quickly. I've found that once the angler starts using the lure, rapid movement towards the lure with the feeding stick triggers the angler to eat quickly. After you get the angler eating Chromis from the feeding stick aggressively, you should be able to start introducing other foods like silversides and shrimp.

I have a black angler that eats almost anything from the feeding stick and ate silversides immediately without going through the previously mentioned routine. My large Orange angler still only eats live fish but will take frozen shrimp from the feeding stick.

Good luck and definitely a beauty!

 

[SI REEF]

I had a female angler lay eggs. Ate siversides from a stick. Loved live damsels. Do not feed it minows. They carry diseases.

 

[rookie07]

I have been buying chromis as feeder fish...I like the color/movement the chromis bring to the tank...angler eats about 4x 1"-1.5" when he is hungry....about 6-8 chromis per week, which seems like alot, but it has only been 2 weeks....
The angler also ate my peppermint shrimp(who had been eating zoas and LPS) so Im very happy about that, I may have placed them alone in a bucket when I was moving.....
OH YEAH.......... the color of the angler has changed....he is now a black/yellow mix, with the red patches still...he has done this b/c my tank has "dark" rocks, and it wanted to blend in better....sometimes at night, I cant find the angler b/c it blends in so well....and people can never find him when I say, "look at this fish"....he is so cool....
I dont think it will eat my harlequin...the harley is often near the angler, and the angler pays no attention to the harley, even when the angler is "fishing" for other fish.....the clowns seem to know to stay away also, even when the chunk of cyclopeeze floats near the angler, the clowns stop chasing it, and retreat...its all very cool

 

[qckwzrd]

that is a cool looking fish! Phil will you keep him in your current tank or move him over when you get the larger tank? I know he will limit the type of livestock you'll be able to put in the tank. Any recent pics?

 

[rookie07]

Im moving him over to the new tank...Im getting only big fish(6" min. size), except for the chromis of course.......
Pics will be up when I get back from Dallas....Lets Go Sharks!!!!

 

[rookie07]

 

[rookie07]

im sad to say.....He was killed by Cirolanid Isopod...I had to go away for the weekend, and was unable to transfer him to a isolation tank....

Im sorry CJ...RIP