Oxymonacanthus longirostris pair enters a mixed reef environment

Thanks Mr. Tuna and Mr. Monkeyfish. It's great to have you along for the ride. I think I would introduce two females if I had the chance. We have a trio at the Seattle Aquarium in about 50 gallons of water. They're in with a bluestripe pipefish and what I call a "seamoth". That snouty fish that walk/hops on the bottom. Anyway, I digress. A trio would be my next attempt if I have the opportunity.
 
Small Alien, I somehow missed your post about the loss. Sorry to hear. I lost a female a couple months ago myself. She was a great eater, but still wasted away. I could not determine the problem.

My other female continues to do well though. Here are a couple recent shots.

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I haven't checked this thread in a while. I lost my little guy towards the end of November :(. I've been wanting try again, but not until my big tank is set up and my acros get settled in. I'm not sure what went wrong. I came home one night to find him lifeless on the sand bed. He was eating fine and swimming good prior to that night. I was pretty upset about it. He was my favorite.
 
My rescued female is doing great. So much more interesting to have a pair. I've had the male now for a little over 18 months. Doing great.

Sorry to hear you lost your male, Daniel.
 
small alien said:
My rescued female is doing great. So much more interesting to have a pair. I've had the male now for a little over 18 months. Doing great.

Sorry to hear you lost your male, Daniel.
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You have done a great job with that rescue. I have been following that thread.
 
Update

Update

My rescued female has full body weight. And I think she's gravid judging by her belly shape.

I lost my last female due to what I suspect was an issue associated with being gravid.

The new female isn't eating much for about 2 days and seems low energy. Maybe they will spawn. Or maybe she will die too. I sure hope it's the former. I'll try to get a pic up later. Anyone have your female get gravid? What happened?

Cheers, small
 
Renton777 said:
You have done a great job with that rescue. I have been following that thread.
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Thanks, Renton. That was a humbling and kind of awesome experience to bring that fish back from the brink. She was literally thin as a leaf. And it was during a 3 day power outage/snow storm that I acquired her. So, I had the generator going and was staying home from work. All I did all day was feed that fish. At least 10 times the first day. Trying so many different things. I am very grateful for the experience. I think it's fair to say, for me, it was very spiritual.

Cheers.:wave:
 
My condolences. Are you sure it she was gravid and not bloated from something internal?

Either way, you gave her a longer life than she would have had if you hadn't taken her in. Kudos for the intent and effort.
 
Thanks, guys. I can't be sure. The first female was quite apparently gravid I think and was really putting on a show of spawning behavior before she croaked. She got much more bloated at the end though.

This female looked kind of normally round in the middle. Didn't eat one day, died two days later. I can't autopsy because by the time I found the body today it was just a shell of skin. They have very tough skin.

Thanks again. I don't tend to be emotional about my tank any more. I'm sure I would if the whole thing went to heck. But things die and that's the way it is.
 
Dood...that sux. You did a great job keeping them tho.

Our female is still going strong (over 3 years now), but we lost our male a little while ago for reasons unknown.
 
The male has died.

The male has died.

I had an unfortunate tank mishap entirely of my own making which resulted in the loss of 6 of my fish including my male OSFF. That fish meant quite a bit to me and I'm still kind of realizing the loss of that small, blue and orange part of my life.

Rest in peace, Male OSFF. And, I'm sorry.

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That sucks man, I feel ya on losing the OSFF. I hated losing my little guy. You gonna try again with another one?
 
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