Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa)
- Thread starter Domboski
- Start date
Nice fish... But poor pilot fish...
If cheap damsels and pilot fishes can be fed as food, why cant we use those fishes for cycling a tank? Just curious...
If cheap damsels and pilot fishes can be fed as food, why cant we use those fishes for cycling a tank? Just curious...
I didn't collect enough to feed anything longterm. That wasn't the plan. The pilotfish are keeping the stonefish full until I get some cheap damsels
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
You had to bring it up didn't you? :lol2:
IMO leaving a fish to be poisoned in order to cycle a tank when there is many other ways to do so is different than feeding a fish its natural diet. Whether frozen or alive the stonefish eats fish and inverts. Cycling a tank can be done in many ways without subjecting fish to toxic levels of ammonia. Really a no brainer if you think about it
IMO leaving a fish to be poisoned in order to cycle a tank when there is many other ways to do so is different than feeding a fish its natural diet. Whether frozen or alive the stonefish eats fish and inverts. Cycling a tank can be done in many ways without subjecting fish to toxic levels of ammonia. Really a no brainer if you think about it
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- Location
- Staten Island
Awesome video
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
A pic from today. Note the color change:
- Location
- Upper East Side
He looks mean.
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
He is eating prepared foods now. That was a nice Holiday bonus
- Location
- Upper East Side
Oh really? That's awesome!
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
How about these pics of the most poisonous fish in the world hiding?
- Location
- poughquag, ny
Very Cool Dom
- Location
- NY
Dom, great addition to your collection. I second Jon's suggestion......blue ring next :bigeyes2:
- Location
- Staten Island
Nice video dom.. Nice fish too..
- Location
- Rego Park, Queens
While they may be labelled as stone fish in the Asian markets, those fish in the live tanks are toadfish, Opsanus tau. They used to be incredibly common before they became popular in the markets...I would see them everywhere along the shore in the marshes around Peconic bay....I haven't seen one in years. The last one I caught, in the days when they were common, was when I first saw them in the markets..so I ate it. Steamed with black bean sauce. It was awful...gelatinous...sort of fiirm, but gelatinous and thoroughly repulsive. Had I known that they would disappear, I never would have eaten it. The young ones were great to keep in a local tank...they have lots of personality.
- Location
- Upper East Side
We caught toadfish last summer. They sit next to docks - didn't even have to go into the water to get them.
- Location
- Rego Park, Queens
Yeah, they just sit there at the water's edge..I'd see them along the bay and in the marshes. If my lure would go anywhere near them, they'd grab it. I once caught one that weighed 3 lbs. Where did you see them? In Cutchogue, there used to be one every few yards along the shore. Then they literally disappeared. within a year of appearing in the markets, they were gone. Same with knobbed and channelled whelks. I used to grab some to eat whenever I found them. Now they are so rare that I don't find more than 2 or three a season (and I always throw them back)...no egg cases in September anymore either. And the horseshoe crabs....decimated. Used for bait to catch the whelks.... All within the last 4-5 years. But the toadfish is the only one to completely disappear without a trace where I am....
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
Sure it would eat grass shrimp :biggrin:
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