Stone Fish

[dirk_brijs]

can anyone who owns one give some more info on issues like general behavior and how prone they are to disease (ich?) etc...
Client of mine put one in his aquarium and little to no info available online beside they are poisonous?
Eating habbits and more if possible....
Thanks guys

 

[btb72]

He won't be your client for long.... :blown:

 

[dirk_brijs]

He won't be your client for long.... :blown:

can I have some informative feedback now?

 

[Cliving1]

Be careful with them, they are very poisonous. I believe they are similar to scorpionfish, although they prefer to sit in a sand bed. You could probably train it to eat from a stick. What size is it and what size tank is it in? Any other fish in their? They are ambush predators. I cant say much for the disease side.

 

[Spslvr]

Ive kept many over the years what would you like to know, they are easy to feed and usually take frozen fairly quickly they are not aggressive but will grab anything that comes within range, they dont move much....eva... and can be quite boring really... but i do love them... which species does your friend have?

They are pretty disease resistant and quite hardy, they dont attack and youd have to be pretty incompetent to get hit by one, ive always hand fed my stones and scorps they do become quit used to their feeder...

 

[Joke]

Is the stonefish he is keeping a Synanceia horrida, these guys are definitely the worst stonefish to keep. They produce a lot of waste, are the most still of any stonefish (they actually do not even go out with the tide but rather sit there and get expossed with air), resemble a rock the most and are the most venomous fish in the ocean. They honestly are not a fish to keep, i dont understand why people keep these, there basically a rock that eats! Good thing is it would be vey hard to get stung, they have flesh over there spine that needs to be pushed back with pressure in order to inject into something.
A funny story, a few years ago i was up in north queensland with my family and we decided to go look at the rockpools. After a few hours of looking we started to walk back to the car, i took one of my boots of and took one last step and my booted foot went directly on a stonefish, i took my boot of to check if it had got me at all, but the spine did not quite get through my boot, i was verry lucky.
Probably wasn't the funniest story ever, I guess!

 

[Spslvr]

Is the stonefish he is keeping a Synanceia horrida, these guys are definitely the worst stonefish to keep. They produce a lot of waste, are the most still of any stonefish (they actually do not even go out with the tide but rather sit there and get expossed with air), resemble a rock the most and are the most venomous fish in the ocean. They honestly are not a fish to keep, i dont understand why people keep these, there basically a rock that eats! Good thing is it would be vey hard to get stung, they have flesh over there spine that needs to be pushed back with pressure in order to inject into something.
A funny story, a few years ago i was up in north queensland with my family and we decided to go look at the rockpools. After a few hours of looking we started to walk back to the car, i took one of my boots of and took one last step and my booted foot went directly on a stonefish, i took my boot of to check if it had got me at all, but the spine did not quite get through my boot, i was verry lucky.
Probably wasn't the funniest story ever, I guess!

Different strokes I suppose, i quite enjoy keeping them

 

[dirk_brijs]

Ive kept many over the years what would you like to know, they are easy to feed and usually take frozen fairly quickly they are not aggressive but will grab anything that comes within range, they dont move much....eva... and can be quite boring really... but i do love them... which species does your friend have?

They are pretty disease resistant and quite hardy, they dont attack and youd have to be pretty incompetent to get hit by one, ive always hand fed my stones and scorps they do become quit used to their feeder...

not realy sure what species he is having
its rather small and sit in a 1000lt tank together with some Eels mainly. He has put some smaller fish (gobies,firefish etc..) in there in the hope they get eaten by anything really. During the day he seem to just, as said, in the sand under a rock but during the night he claims he seem prity active and swims around the tank. Sounds like strange behavior right? He has the fish now about 6-7 weeks and he claims he never saw it eat at all. He tried to stick feed it but he doesnt react to nothing.
Are they disease prone also?

 

[Spslvr]

They are very hardy and disease resistant, moving around at night is normal however if he is swimming around its probable something is irritating him i would say the eel, eels dont make great tankmates with sedentary species such as stones and scorpions, as for not eating they can take a while to settle in and can go a suprisingly long time between meals....being small there is a high chance he is a false stonefish (scorpaenopsis diabolus)

 

[Joke]

Different strokes I suppose, i quite enjoy keeping them

I suppose there just not for me.

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[FinnCole]

They will eat ghost shrimp and you can try them with silver sides a guy at a LFS told me they can be unpredictable watch out by the way cause I used to have a sea goblin a relative of a stonefish and it jumped out the tank

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[FinnCole]

not realy sure what species he is having
its rather small and sit in a 1000lt tank together with some Eels mainly. He has put some smaller fish (gobies,firefish etc..) in there in the hope they get eaten by anything really. During the day he seem to just, as said, in the sand under a rock but during the night he claims he seem prity active and swims around the tank. Sounds like strange behavior right? He has the fish now about 6-7 weeks and he claims he never saw it eat at all. He tried to stick feed it but he doesnt react to nothing.
Are they disease prone also?

This is a common problem with fish like this have kept a few and they either will eat whenever they can or won't eat at all

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