Oxymonacanthus longirostris - a week in review.

So can someone sum up this thread for me? What does it take to keep this fish? I'm guessing a community tank is a no-no?
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That's just not how it is, unfortunately. These are still early days and I'm not sure the care of these fish can be summed up yet. We're all still winging it. And part of the problem is that the fish do not behave completely consistently across different people's care. The bottom line is that it takes you being willing to do whatever your particular fish need to keep them alive, up to and including being willing to spend inordinate amounts of money on food and water changes and being able to be around your tanks enough to be able to feed many times per day.

And sad news to report: I went to the fish room today to find that my male had gone MIA. Either he died (though he looked fine yesterday) and the cleanup crew was really good, or he managed to make it out of the tank and I haven't found him yet. Well, I guess he could just be hiding really well for really long periods of time, but that would be completely out of character. Sorry. One year, two months, and one day.
 
Andy...that sux dood. sorry about that. i HOPE he turns up and is just hiding, but i know what you mean.
 
"Umm said:
That's just not how it is, unfortunately. These are still early days and I'm not sure the care of these fish can be summed up yet. We're all still winging it. And part of the problem is that the fish do not behave completely consistently across different people's care. The bottom line is that it takes you being willing to do whatever your particular fish need to keep them alive, up to and including being willing to spend inordinate amounts of money on food and water changes and being able to be around your tanks enough to be able to feed many times per day.

And sad news to report: I went to the fish room today to find that my male had gone MIA. Either he died (though he looked fine yesterday) and the cleanup crew was really good, or he managed to make it out of the tank and I haven't found him yet. Well, I guess he could just be hiding really well for really long periods of time, but that would be completely out of character. Sorry. One year, two months, and one day.
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Oh no that's horrible! I hope you have found him. Mine can hide pretty good when he wants to. Has he ever shown any jumping tendencies before?
 
seahorsedreams said:
Please do!! Beautiful!

Share all you have experienced with them :-)
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Thanks! Well I can say that mine seems to be pretty tolerant of Cupramine in case anyone ever runs into a situation for it (mine never showed any lesions though despite the rest of the tank suffering from an outbreak).
 
Breakthrough! He's eating NLS pellets. No, he's not just eating them. He's DEVOURING them. I think he has found his new favorite food. All it took was patience and persistence (and lots of water changes).
 
Congratulations! That's fantastic! Now slowly start adding other stuff in.

No luck on finding the male. My fish store has told me to come get their male, though, so I can start over. Their male is looking fantastic, but is on a coral diet.
 
very cool, uhuru!! congrats!

Andy,

man...i know what you mean about "starting over"...that's a LOT of work. :(

we had a line on a pair that was already on mysis, but we went to see them and the male had just died of velvet! the female looked nice and fat tho. the LFS owner said it even ate cheese puffs. don't ask me why he tried that, but oh well...
 
Mine does not like Rod's Food. I got some of the eggs and she was like "EW!"
Now, she ate them, but she would spit them out and shiver... then try it a couple of more times and then finally ate it. Reminded me of the videos where babies are trying sour food and make the sour baby face... but still eats it. That's what she looked like.

I almost bought her a male, but I already have 3 fish to train to frozen... but I was SO close to buying it.

I'm sure your name is the same as it is on some other forums uhuru,... I love your NPC tank. I hope you will be open to questions in the future because we are looking to try into something like that. Do you have the OSFF in the NPC tank?
 
Re: Oxymonacanthus longirostris - a week in review.

Of course I will answer whatever I can! The OSFF is still in my QT tank I'm not sure where he will go. I can't put him in the NPS tank since I have a frogfish in there. I am too hesitant to put him with my 2 dwarf angels. I am thinking of setting up a small planted/softie tank for him. He has really been putting on mass since he started eating NLS pellets.


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Maybe I should try some pellets again.

I really thought she would go for the Rod's food eggs. She likes them when they are in the Fish Food mix but dislikes most everything else in the blend. Maybe it's the additives because these things, if you haven't seen them, are pretty orange. It's not the natural colour of the eggs because they are white in the blend (and I doubt they use 2 types) and if you leave the eggs in water for more than 15 minutes the orange colour leeches into the water itself.

She DOES eat it, but she looks like a kid being made to eat their green beans.
 
Another food item added to the menu! I finally got some Nutramar Ova and after a couple of tries my OSFF is now eating it! So the list of food items that he will eat is now:

NLS small pellets
Frozen Mysis
Frozen Brine Shrimp (I almost never feed this though)
Formula 2 Flakes
Nutramar Ova

Still very disappointed in the H20 Life Mini Mysis. They are HUGE. Not even "normal." It should be sold as Jumbo Mysis. I contacted the company and never got a response. I contacted Premium Aquatics and they were able to get a response for me. They said it was a seasonal thing. Well if its a seasonal thing then don't sell it as Mini Mysis when those aren't in season. I wouldn't have purchased a bunch of boxes at once!
 
I have a question, I just purchased an osff and it is eating roe pretty well. What I was wondering is how can you tell if it is male of female? Sorry if this was already discussed in here somewhere, I just kind of skimmed through. Great thread from what I've read!
 
Here's some pics, sorry, my camera is just a point and shoot. Not beautiful pictures like the rest of ya :)



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it's hard to tell unless we can see the first ventral fin extended, but it looks like a male.

pretty fish you have there...now to fatten him up.
 
Now, refreshen my memory in fish anatomy, which part is the ventral fin? lol. Yes, the hard part is fattening him up
 
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