Man O' War Fish?

[Starlit_]

Anyone have experience or any knowledge at all about these fish? I'd like to keep a small group in my 90 gallon. I plan to have a Caribbean biotope with a bunch of gorgonians, ricordeas, zoanthids, sponges, rock flower anemones and macroalgae. Also some shrimp and snails and maybe a few other inverts. Will Nomeus Gronovii eat anemones, shrimp, snails, coral, inverts, sponges, etc. Also will the anemones eat the fish? What do i feed the fish. They feed on jellyfish and zooplankton but will they eat carnivore and omnivore preparations? Is a 90 gallon big enough for them? I have a really DSB with open swimming room and a casual rockscape.

 

[Starlit_]

Anyone?

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I think they're being polite by not saying anything. Soooooo I'll go out on a limb here and ask What in the world are you thinking and even considering this fish? Where did this idea come from? Have you read anything about this fish, and where do you plan on getting one?

OH yeah not to mention that it gets to 15" in length.

 

[Dmorty217]

^+1 most don't respond to the "what if" style posts and being this is the slow time of year for the hobby and site there will be less willing to respond to questions like this. Use the search tool on here, more than likely you can answer your question without starting a thread

 

[CHSUB]

never heard of a Man O' War Fish, only a jelly fish...why not get a yellow tang, they're pretty!!!

 

[snorvich]

^+1 most don't respond to the "what if" style posts and being this is the slow time of year for the hobby and site there will be less willing to respond to questions like this. Use the search tool on here, more than likely you can answer your question without starting a thread

But it provides a great reason to go to bed. Good night!! :dance:

 

[alprazo]

not a popular aquarium fish, but I have entertained keeping one as well in the past. Having seen them snorkeling, they are fascinating. sorry I can't help. BTW, I think 15 inches is a near record. I would guess half that size in an aquarium.

 

[nanoreefer1000]

It'll get 14 inches long as an adult, way too large.

 

[alprazo]

When it comes to max fish sizes, realize that humans can grow to 8'11" , but how often do you see it.

 

[ThRoewer]

Keeping the fish is one thing but how would one keep the man o' war they live with?

Looking this up I found that sometimes even clownfish can be found in pacific man o' war. Likely larva that drifted to far out and the man o' war was the only "anemone" they could find. This could explain how they might have spread to far out islands.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

No one has still said where would you possibly get one of them

 

[Dmorty217]

Alprazo that's a great picture of Mr Wadlow! This fish isn't something regularly offered in the trade so diver direct would be the way to acquire one

 

[Betta132]

Humans aren't supposed to get that large, it's a mutation. It'd be more realistic to find a picture of a basketball player. Also, it's true that fish don't always reach max size, but you're still going to end up with a fish at least a foot long. You cannot keep one active foot-long fish in a 90g, let alone a school. You'll need a much bigger tank.

 

[syrinx]

actually many animals and fish can grow larger in captivity than in the wild. I have seen the fish offered a few times- the last being divers den I believe.

 

[alprazo]

Humans aren't supposed to get that large, it's a mutation.

Don't you think that most if not all max size / world records have to do with a genetic mutation.

 

[alprazo]

actually many animals and fish can grow larger in captivity than in the wild. I have seen the fish offered a few times- the last being divers den I believe.

Sharks for instance grow faster, but final size in aquariums is significantly smaller than the max size reported.

Fish often display stunted growth from the beginning

You ever see an 8 inch yellow tang, 15 inch blue face angel, or 5.5 inch tomato clown grown from a juvenile.

My 8 year old female bicinctus from ORA is about 4 inches max. Not the reported 5.5.

 

[zooman72]

Humans aren't supposed to get that large, it's a mutation.

Not to be "that guy", but Mr. Wadlow's extreme condition was not the result of "mutation" (his genome did not change), but rather hyperplasia (excess cellular growth) of the pituitary gland, which resulted in excess production of human growth hormone...

 

[alprazo]

I would argue that pituitary adenomas in children, a cause of giantism, is from a somatic mutation in tumor suppressor, promotor or some other regulatory gene.

 

[Starlit_]

The reason I asked it on here is because all of the other websites (at least 10) I've looked at say nothing about what it eats other than jellyfish and zooplankton or if its reef safe. I've seen a few videos of them eating mysis/brine but that's pretty much it. A collector in Florida collects them on occasion.

 

[Starlit_]

Sorry for the question bomb/tmi at the beginning. I considered this fish ad it is a drifting fish and assumed it didn't eat much other than zooplankton and the jellyfish so it might be reef safe and it looks awesome. I think I would be better off designing a tank specifically made for them. That might be a future project.