Oxymonacanthus longirostris ( Orange Spotted Filefish )Primer

actually mine started eating out of the water column today !!!!!!! going after everything, so strange, hes like a different fish. SO excited. he still picks at corals but this is huge. and the damage on corals isnt much. but will cause sps polyps to extend. and i cant tell too much damage on the acans i have.
 
Mine does very little damage to corals. Seems to like acans, lobos the most out of several species of lps. Hasn't bothered nps, and irritates my monti's a bit.
 
gemini aquarius(t) said:
How much damage do they do to the corals?
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When I finally released mine into the display, they made a beeline for anything with a polyp. After a day of pestering all my corals, they decided they didn't care for the softies. They destroyed a millie and birdsnest colony, and other acros have no polyp extension during the day, but mostly they ignore corals now. I have no LPS because I've got angels. In fact, I would say they're about as reef safe as a lot of centropyge. It's a matter of trial and error and figuring out what they'll leave alone. I'm more interested in my fish than coral, so I'm fine with that.
 
Still trying to get my OSF to eat.... substantially. He picks at stuff and then spits it out, and will eat and swallow some of the particles, but no where near what it would take to survive. I can see him getting skinnier, and as he was already a rescue fish, there isnt much room to get skinnier. The time is now. He is eating a little bit of flake and a little bit of freeze dried cyclopeeze. He doesnt even look at mysis, or frozen H2O cyclops... strange fish.
 
I think people have gotten them to eat gel foods smeared onto an acro skeleton. You might be able to do the same with other partially thawed frozen food if you mash it up first.
 
If you look back I told you before... take out the frozen food and mash it on the skeleton, then let it dry for a few hours. Use as many different foods as possible but preferably get some ova on there.
 
Got him eating free-floating Ova! He reacted instantly to it, and he swallowed it instead of spitting it back up like the other foods! I am ecstatic about this!
Here is a little VIDEO of him eating. Sorry its not very good, hard to get any sharpness with the LEDs

 
Fishfirst said:
After dealing with hundreds of these fish, nutramar ova is definately one of the best foods to start them (and keep them) on. I vary my personal fishes diet with NLS flake, spirulina brine, and mysis shrimp... but it took time to get him to eat it. I sold a pair of them that ate everything including pellets and gel food. I also offer it frags of sps on occasion, when i can get them cheap enough. Getting these fish from a good vendor is the most important part here. Minimizing transit time increases success to nearly 75% in store to sale. I always keep them at the store a minimum of a month before sale and always sell ones that are not pinched at the top or bottom.

customer success seems to be rather high as well as long as they do as instructed and have good water quality.
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Where is your shop located.I'm in northern Illinois and always looking for a good lfs.Thanks
 
I feed a frozen mix (squid, shrimp, scallops, salmon, mysis and sometimes clam, cyclopeeze, and ova) every morning. I've also got an autofeeder set up to deliver small meals of pellets four times a day. This is a 185 with lots of other fish in it. The files eat the frozen and NLS small pellets. I've seen them pick at flakes and larger Formula Two pellets, too.
 
I am going to try again, but this time I am going to be prepared. I want a pair of them that are MAC certified. And I want to make sure they are eating... WELL in the store.
 
I ordered a pair from Germany last week. They haven't arrived yet...
They said that they will ship them as soon as they get the fishes to decrese the stress caused by keeping them in a container...

I have a good population of micro- and mesoplankton that other fishes don't eat in my tank.
The only fish that might compete for food is my Sixline wrasse, but my tank is fairly large.

I'm planning to offer them some cyclops eeze and frozen cyclops, red plankton, artemia and mysis, all sorts of pellets and flakes, and I'm fortuned enough to be able to collect planctic organisms straight from the Baltic sea.
Also, I will try this acropora skeleton trick of they don't start to feed from the column or the bottom...

Is it a good idea to keep OSFF with toby puffers? I can't see any problem, but what do you good people think? I have not got any tobys yet, but I'm planning to get me some...

I just got a killer crab out of my tank after it had eaten 3 clowns, Majestic angel, Royal gramma, bicolor blenny, yellow goby and possibly had something to do with the death of my Forcipiger longirostris and Kole tang!!
After that my PBT jumped out a day before I got my covers to the tank!! :(
So my tank is a little barren at the moment...

Trying with these bit more special species now...
Hope everything goes as planned!
 
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