Panther grouper

[mitek2]

Hi. This is just out of curiosity as I do not intend to get one of these. They are beautiful juvenile fish but they get plain as they get older. Besides I have a reef tank and he may eat my shrimp and invertebrates

My question though is if you feed predators live fish i.e. minnows or whatever, do you risk getting ich or some other disease in your saltwater tank from the fresh water feeder fish?

 

[snorvich]

Hi. This is just out of curiosity as I do not intend to get one of these. They are beautiful juvenile fish but they get plain as they get older. Besides I have a reef tank and he may eat my shrimp and invertebrates

My question though is if you feed predators live fish i.e. minnows or whatever, do you risk getting ich or some other disease in your saltwater tank from the fresh water feeder fish?

No (different species of parasite) but fresh water fish are probably not the best thing to feed marine fish. (think krill causing lock jaw in lionfish)

 

[laga77]

Hi. This is just out of curiosity as I do not intend to get one of these. They are beautiful juvenile fish but they get plain as they get older. Besides I have a reef tank and he may eat my shrimp and invertebrates

My question though is if you feed predators live fish i.e. minnows or whatever, do you risk getting ich or some other disease in your saltwater tank from the fresh water feeder fish?

Freshwater fish as food also leads to fatty liver disease in predatory marine fish.

 

[mitek2]

Good to know! Thanks

 

[ThRoewer]

There are some diseases that may be transferred by feeding freshwater fish, just not ectoparasites or all the other things that you are normally worried about. Though the things that may be transferred are of the extremely nasty kind (the "once you got it, only a bottle of bleach will help" kind).

As for the panther grouper: a store in Germany put a tiny little one into their 4000 liter display tank together with a decent size group of lyretail anthias (~20). Everything was fine for a while but at some point the little guy had become big enough to gulp down the by then fully grown anthias and every time I got there a few more were missing while the grouper got bigger. This is one of those fish that only have a place in a tank with large fish they can't swallow...

 

[mitek2]

Yeah, I'm not getting one because I have two maroon clown, two perculas, and a couple green chromis. They are decent size but as the grouper got bigger I'm sure he would eat them. Not sure what he would do to my tangs I think they're too big.

They are pretty fish when they're young, but I have seen some that are older that look kind of not so pretty

 

[Winwood]

There are some diseases that may be transferred by feeding freshwater fish, just not ectoparasites or all the other things that you are normally worried about. Though the things that may be transferred are of the extremely nasty kind (the "once you got it, only a bottle of bleach will help" kind).

As for the panther grouper: a store in Germany put a tiny little one into their 4000 liter display tank together with a decent size group of lyretail anthias (~20). Everything was fine for a while but at some point the little guy had become big enough to gulp down the by then fully grown anthias and every time I got there a few more were missing while the grouper got bigger. This is one of those fish that only have a place in a tank with large fish they can't swallow...

Wow! What did those anthias do to the store owner?

 

[zachfishman]

(think krill causing lock jaw in lionfish)

I have never heard of this. I've definitely heard to not feed freshwater feeder fish (rosie reds, goldfish), but krill is a great marine food IME.

 

[mattcoug]

Krill is the main food for my triggers.. hope I am not slowly killing them

 

[xkon]

I have never heard of this. I've definitely heard to not feed freshwater feeder fish (rosie reds, goldfish), but krill is a great marine food IME.

I have heard of krill causing lockjaw, specifically for the lionfish tho

 

[harley3ky]

I want a Panther Grouper but don't want to lose my other fish. Learned that lesson the hard way with my first tank 15 years ago when I bought a V-tailed grouper and lost 4 clowns in one night.