Anyone Have Or Had A Frog Fish?

[Tosh_Auer]

I am really really interested in these guys and am almost considering turning my big tank into a frog fish tank i just have a few question and am not having much luck finding info on them. Any help would be great.

[ScottT1980]

brian_e had one I believe, you might want to send him a PM. I know it would eat almost anything you put in front of it...

Take er easy
Scott T.

[Maxx]

Ive had a few over the years. Whatcha wanna know?
Nick

[phillyfish]

I had a friend put one in his 150 it died after three weeks, i don't think it was eating.---------------See My Lagoon

[brian_e]

i had one for 6 months he just died but they will try to eat anything all the way to there size i was giving my frozen shrimp he also ate a few larg clown fish

[sorcerer]

I have a striated frog fish, is there something in particular you want to know?

[Tosh_Auer]

Is there any other fish or invert i could keep with them in a 35gal tank? Will it try and bit me when cleaning? Are they difficult to look after? Any special requirements? Im guessing not but ill do my research anyway are they likely to hurt any corals? What about ones that sway in the current? could it think its a fish and bit it? Anything i should know?

Tosh

[brian_e]

now the one i had did bite be thought i was food and always came out when my hands where in my tank cleaning and he never did any harm to my corals in my 30 kept snails and hermits in with hime thats all i had

[sorcerer]

Keeping other fish with them is tricky as they can swallow something almost twice their size. So you would need a fish that would stay somewhat larger than the angler. Some fish will mistake some of the frogfish as food and can injure it picking at it.

Snails and hermits are okay with them but shrimp and crabs like sally lights or emeralds will be on the menu.

I've never had any problem with corals unless the prey gets into the coral and then it might get nipped as the angler nabs the food. They can irritate corals by sitting on them, but you can run them off of the corals a few times and they generally learn not to go back to that spot.

As to special requirements you need to be careful feeding as to not overfeed. Since their digestion is slow, overfeeding can lead to food decaying in the fish before digestion injuring orkilling the fish.

Work at weening the angler off of live food. Mine took to feeding off of a feeding stick very quickly, some never accept anything but live food. I gut load live feeder fish and ghost shrimp with cyclopeeze prior to feeding them to the angler.

The only time mine has ever struck at my hand is when I've been scooting him around the tank to get at something he was setting on. It didn't hurt, just kind of startling how fast he can move when he wants.

When moving the angler from one tank to another do your best not to expose it to the air as they can gulp air and get a bad bubble in thier gut.

That is all I can think of off the top of my head, let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.