Any Forcipiger longirostris horror stories?

[Bela N]

Has anyone had a bad experience with Forcipiger longirostris?
Looking to add one to our 135 gal mixed reef.

 

[coolali16]

I had one for I think more than a year then out of nowhere I found it dead with a bruise on it's side.
None of the fish I have bothered him or anything. He was nice and fat and he would eat anything that fit in his mouth. A mistery, as to why it died like that.

 

[Bela N]

He was nice and fat and he would eat anything that fit in his mouth.

Sorry to hear about the loss!!:sad2:

Did he eat small feather dusters? Did you have SPS & did he leave them alone?

 

[NatureNerd]

Many years ago I had one, well before I had any idea what I was doing. It was a great fish and must have been very hardy because I did so many things wrong and yet it stayed beautiful, fat, and healthy looking. I had it 5 years before it died because a fire in my stand resulted in a complete tank crash.

It did eat small feather dusters. I had many of the little red ones and they all were all eaten. Nice fish though, never touched any of my corals.

 

[Bela N]

It did eat small feather dusters. I had many of the little red ones and they all were all eaten. Nice fish though, never touched any of my corals.

Thanks for info. I have hundreds if not thousands of tiny 1-2 mm yellow & white feather dusters. I was hopping they would not be consumed. I will have to decided what I want more the fish or the dusters. I sounds like it is a great fish to have.

Thanks

 

[coolali16]

Sorry to hear about the loss!!:sad2:

Did he eat small feather dusters? Did you have SPS & did he leave them alone?

Nope he left the little small featherduster alone. I never saw him eat any and da live rock and sand were full of them. I did see "him" (let's call it a him it looked like a male to me lol!) eat those little burrowing worms that have two tentacle like thingys coming out of a sand tube (i think they're called spaghetti or tarbellid worms)
As for the sps my tank it was a FOWLR so I honestly dnt know. But I read they are reef safe and they won't bother corals.

 

[small alien]

I had one jump out of a tank and stick right into my eye. Youch, that stung.

 

[small alien]

Generally considered about THE most reef safe butterfly. Except for tube worms as has been said.

 

[rssjsb]

I had one jump out of a tank and stick right into my eye. Youch, that stung.

what the what?!?