My new Choridactylus multibarbus
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small alien
The fungus is among us.
Neat O!
joejoe1055
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looks good
DoubleM 10
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i have wanted one of those. i picked up a cockatoo waspfish instead lol
i live venomus fish lol
i live venomus fish lol
Sitarangi
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Yes, he already eats enriched krill alongside my lion. I have not seen any burrowing behavior but I think its because have a thick aragonite substrate (tank's first inhabitant was a peacock mantis). I may add a bag or two of live sand to encourage him to dig. I wanna upgrade to a 50 rimless (36"x18"x18") soon to accommodate my growing collection of ambush predators. My next fish on the list is either a true Synanceia stonefish or a Rhinophias. I've been seeing alot of nice rhinos in LA recently, gorgeous all yellow colors.
samdaman
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Nice, What other fish do you plan to get, I also plan to have a scorp tank, and well I have not started because I wanted to get them local, but with these fish, that will never happen, they are pretty rare at LFS.
namxas
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We've kept C. multibarbus for awhile now. IMHO, your substrate looks fine (we use #3 aragonite pretty much exclusively in all of our scorp setups). Altho the fish does "hunker down" and partially bury itself in the substrate, they don't cover themselves quite as much as Inimicus sp..
Your fish might do OK with a fu, as long as the fu doesn't out compete it for food, altho we decided to keep ours in a species tank since it's a super slow, deliberate eater. Our specimen is pretty "antisocial" compared to our other Scorpaenformes, and doesn't like to be stared at for very long (it turns its back and either flashes its orange pectoral bands or simply stalks off).
This fish is one of my faves on the "oddest of the oddball" scale...cool find! We're actually on the lookout for another specimen ourselves...
Your fish might do OK with a fu, as long as the fu doesn't out compete it for food, altho we decided to keep ours in a species tank since it's a super slow, deliberate eater. Our specimen is pretty "antisocial" compared to our other Scorpaenformes, and doesn't like to be stared at for very long (it turns its back and either flashes its orange pectoral bands or simply stalks off).
This fish is one of my faves on the "oddest of the oddball" scale...cool find! We're actually on the lookout for another specimen ourselves...
Sitarangi
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My fu is very active and seems to leave my stingfish 'Snookie' alone. The biggest PITA's right now are my bangaiis and dragon goby. The cardinals snatch extra krill and my goby drops rocks on everything. I had a small foxface in there to that had outgrown the tank. He got put into my 150 a couple days ago.
@namxas: If you want me to look for another stingfish next week, just PM me and we can talk about a possible meet-up or shipping. Quality Marine had a couple left as of Monday.
@namxas: If you want me to look for another stingfish next week, just PM me and we can talk about a possible meet-up or shipping. Quality Marine had a couple left as of Monday.
namxas
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I'm not saying that a fu and a ghoul WON'T eat a fish, but both species are substrate huggers that are at home scaring up crabs, shrimp, and other tasty treats from the substrate. I'd say that anything that stays up in the water column is pretty safe. Both the fu and the ghoul have fairly small mouths as well, and don't get very big.
Sitarangi,
this is about as deeply as our ghoul ever buries itself:
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