Hello, Geezer coming back to this forum. Paul B

[Paul B]

I had to go to a store next to a Petco so I walked in. They had one aiptasia eating filefish and it was tiny. I don't have any aiptasia but I do have a larger one of those and I didn't want to leave him there so I bought him. He is about an inch long and very cute but overpriced at $35.00.

I could probably get him from my guy for $15.00 but I don't know if he has any, and I have never seen one this small, so I had to get him.

I acclimated him for 15 minutes, and he is now happily swimming around looking for aiptasia, but he will go hungry unless he waits for some earthworms in a couple of hours.

I will take a picture when I can, but he looks like this larger one that I already have.

 

[wvned]

I got a tiny one in an order. I had to cover the overflow because I was afraid It would get sucked down it. He has doubled in size in a couple of months and has gone from tiny to just small so I could remove the sponge from the overflow.
I have tried many times and my fish will not eat earthworms I find. They will mouth them and spit them out.

 

[Dustin07]

I have tried many times and my fish will not eat earthworms I find. They will mouth them and spit them out.

I have to think of what we have now... 5 chromis, 2 clowns, hippo tang, sailfin tang, chocolate tang, foxface, firefish, neon dottyback, skunkback, scooter, and lawnmower blenny.... I feel like I'm forgetting someone, but all 16+ of them now school together (once the juvie chocolate tang was accepted by the sailfin) as though they think they are the same fish. When I introduce a new food sometimes its ignored until ONE of them... ANY one of them, gives it a try. then suddenly like sibblings it's a pirana blood bath. My hippo would not touch nori until the foxface and sailfin showed her how delicious it is, now she's the first piggy whenever I add some.

I have a ton of chopped up prawn heads in the freezer that I'll snip into little chunks and drop in on occasion and it's like a bubbling pirana feed when I do that now. anything that reaches the sand is quickly consumed by nassarius and crabs lol.

 

[Paul B]

My hippo would not touch nori until the foxface and sailfin showed her how delicious it is, now she's the first piggy whenever I add some.

I never fed my fish nori.

Unfortunately, I don't think my new tiny filefish will last the night. He likes to lay against the powerhead and being he is so slow and doesn't swim like Tarzan, he gets stuck there. Also my 6 line is picking on him.

I put rubber bands all over the intake of one of the powerheads but the other one is 10" long and I can't protect him from it so I feel he will get sucked against it

 

[Paul B]

I am going for my very dark morning walk but I wanted to see if my little filefish was stuck to the powerhead.

Using a flashlight I don't see him stuck anywhere so he may be OK.

I will look for the little guy when the lights come on. Now it's time to go to the beach