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A week in review of buying a pair of Orange spotted filefish.
Sept 20-27th.
We we been looking into getting a pair of these but hadn't planned on it exactly now and hadn't bought the ones we exactly wanted. We originally planned on getting them straight from the wholesalers so we could bypass a length of stay at the LFS increasing their starvation time. But these looked okay compared to many we had seen recently. There was still some fat below their lateral line, however they were pretty slender. Looking down on them from the top they were not paper thin. The female was skinnier than the male.
So why did we buy them? We saw promise. We asked the staff to coat an SPS skeleton in some frozen gel food. They looked interested. They peaked at it and spit it out, but I saw something in their eyes... LOL. I saw promise.
So in a bag they went.
We had a 25 g cycled QT tank ready for them filled with Tonga branch and an 18 gallon tank with HQI lights and SPS lunch frags.
We are using Formula One to smear on some SPS skeletons. I prep a few in the morning, put them in the fridge and change them out throughout the day.
They were nipping at the frozen but the male started to look a little thinner to me, went to his "sleeping branch" more and more and was looking a little pale. I decided to back up and re-evaluate and get them some large browned out colonies from a local shop for cheap. They now look like they are going to pop and have become very vibrant. I have several large colonies I can rotate through and another I'm going to make future training frags out of.
One problem. I don't know what to do with him. I really REALLY like inverts. But he's not the friendliest little coral defender....
So here's the fish. Yes, some of you just saw these pics in another thread.
Him...
Her...
Close...
Them...
One behaviour I saw that was odd was the male put place the side of his snout against the coral skeleton and then rub it will darting forward. Sometimes he would do just this behaviours a bunch of times in a row. He never wants to do it consistently when the camera is on his, but you can see his doing it 3 different times in this video.
Sometimes the female joins him in the dart like swimming... sometimes she ignores him. She has done it a couple of times. When he does it, he always does it to this branch of the skeleton. He sleeps right in this area.
A week in review of buying a pair of Orange spotted filefish.
Sept 20-27th.
We we been looking into getting a pair of these but hadn't planned on it exactly now and hadn't bought the ones we exactly wanted. We originally planned on getting them straight from the wholesalers so we could bypass a length of stay at the LFS increasing their starvation time. But these looked okay compared to many we had seen recently. There was still some fat below their lateral line, however they were pretty slender. Looking down on them from the top they were not paper thin. The female was skinnier than the male.
So why did we buy them? We saw promise. We asked the staff to coat an SPS skeleton in some frozen gel food. They looked interested. They peaked at it and spit it out, but I saw something in their eyes... LOL. I saw promise.
So in a bag they went.
We had a 25 g cycled QT tank ready for them filled with Tonga branch and an 18 gallon tank with HQI lights and SPS lunch frags.
We are using Formula One to smear on some SPS skeletons. I prep a few in the morning, put them in the fridge and change them out throughout the day.
They were nipping at the frozen but the male started to look a little thinner to me, went to his "sleeping branch" more and more and was looking a little pale. I decided to back up and re-evaluate and get them some large browned out colonies from a local shop for cheap. They now look like they are going to pop and have become very vibrant. I have several large colonies I can rotate through and another I'm going to make future training frags out of.
One problem. I don't know what to do with him. I really REALLY like inverts. But he's not the friendliest little coral defender....
So here's the fish. Yes, some of you just saw these pics in another thread.
Him...
Her...
Close...
Them...
One behaviour I saw that was odd was the male put place the side of his snout against the coral skeleton and then rub it will darting forward. Sometimes he would do just this behaviours a bunch of times in a row. He never wants to do it consistently when the camera is on his, but you can see his doing it 3 different times in this video.
Sometimes the female joins him in the dart like swimming... sometimes she ignores him. She has done it a couple of times. When he does it, he always does it to this branch of the skeleton. He sleeps right in this area.
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I urged Renee and Greg to post here on RC about their experiences with this fish. They were rightly concerned about flames and philosophical debates. I suggest we forego the flames and leave the philosophical debates for other threads in order to leave this one on-topic.
