Fishers Angel

[ENTMogul]

Anyone have experience with a Fishers? I have the opportunity to get one and she would be with my Potters.

 

[DDRR]

I've had my Fishers Angel for just over 5 months. Great little guy, very bold, eats like a champ. He is currently with a wrasse, some snails, and live rock. Not sure how he will do in a tank with coral, guess I'll find out down the road when add some.

 

[ENTMogul]

I've had my Fishers Angel for just over 5 months. Great little guy, very bold, eats like a champ. He is currently with a wrasse, some snails, and live rock. Not sure how he will do in a tank with coral, guess I'll find out down the road when add some.

Can you post some pics?

 

[Angel*Fish]

Normally when adding a new angel to the tank you would want it to be larger than the existing angel, which I'd assume it's not. And it's better to have different colors and patterns. Do you have reason to believe it's female? What size is your tank? What kind of rock work do you have and how much?

 

[DDRR]

I'll try and take some pics and post in the next few days

 

[Toddrtrex]

Granted this was only one experience...

I would never attempt to add a similar looking fish to an existing Potter's. I tried that when I added a Golden dwarf angel to a take that had an existing Potter's. Was shocked at just how aggressive the Potter's became -- to the point of me removing half the rockwork to get the Potter's out.

I have mixed dwarf before, and this was the worse I have ever seen.

 

[LargeAngels]

IME fishers are very aggressive. Don't let their size fool you. Mine is a royal pain in the the @$#^@$# when I add another dwarf. Even ones that are 3 or 4 times as big. If I did not allow new angels to recoup from shipping for weeks and then put them in a specimen container for a week before introduction I think the fishers may have killed some of them. Once the fishers has bullied them for a few days he accepts them and usually no more issues. I added to fishers after the potters and no issues there.

 

[Sheol]

And besides the Fisher's, I've heard and read many times, Potters can be downright malevolent defending their home tank..
Something to think about, maybe you could re-arange the tank's rockwork if you go for the C. fisheri?

Matthew

 

[DDRR]

Heres a pic finally

 

[4wheelvfr]

I had my Fisher's with a Multicolor and they got along together fine. They were in a 340g tank, but even at feeding time or if they happened to come together they seemed to get along fine. Very cool fish.