Rhinopius tank...info needed

[jjj1100]

Hello all,

I am deciding what to do with my 180, and am thinking about turning it into a species only rhinopius tank. I was wondering how many could comfortably fit in there, and any information current owners may have (life span, feeding habbits, other sites with info...its tuff to find info about them on google)

Thanks in advance

 

[FMarini]

do you mean Rhinopia? not rhinopius, its a species name not a single vs plural

Anyway, a 180 would do quite fine for a number of them, it will really be limited to how many you can afford, considering they cost 300-1000 each. Remember they are scorpionfish and eat live foods, so you might get some info from the top linked articles

If you provide rockwork w/ cave like features, you should be able to minimze any squabbling.
They folks that I've seen w/ rhinopias will put one or two in their reef tanks or in a species tank. Most public aquaria keep a few in their tanks, but it might be due to costs.
As for food, feed live damsels or small saltwater feeder fish & shrimp, again since your paying hundreds of dollars for the fish they should be eating very well, and live saltwater fish is the best foods
AS for information- check scott micheals book reef fish vol1, its really the only source of info.