Suggestions please!!

[VaderWS6]

I'm trying to decide on an oddball marine fish for a new reef I'm setting up (mostly live rock, just a few corals). Help me decide what to get! No moray eels or frogfish though, I already have them. I REALLY want a stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa), but I can't find an online store that carries them.... Any suggestions???

 

[barbra]

By deciding to add an oddball to your REEF tank you have limited your choices to REEF-safe fish. Why not a frogfish? How much odder can you ask for?

 

[babogart]

How about a "Sea Robin". I saw one at the LFS last week.
They are odd...

 

[VaderWS6]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10958233#post10958233 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by barbra
By deciding to add an oddball to your REEF tank you have limited your choices to REEF-safe fish. Why not a frogfish? How much odder can you ask for?

Well, like I stated in my post I already have a frogfish, so I don't want another one. I can keep any fish in this tank, I'll only have a few mushrooms, gorgonian frags etc (things that I can afford to lose). I'm really leaning toward a stonefish, but would like some other suggestions.

 

[VaderWS6]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10958268#post10958268 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by babogart
How about a "Sea Robin". I saw one at the LFS last week.
They are odd...

I used to have a sea robin, but I sold it to a pet store once it got 9" long.... Keep em coming!

 

[barbra]

Sorry, I missed that you already had the Moray and Frogfish - duh

The problem is that there are lots of unique and rare fish out there with matching price tags, but they don't usually strike the casual observer as being odd though. Maybe a fairy wrasse of one kind or another. They are very eye-catching and unusual in their own way.

 

[babogart]

What size tank again?

How about a couple of "Look Downs". Odd and aggressive.

-Brent

 

[techigirl78]

There's a number of threads here indicating all the reasons for not keeping stonefish. Just not good to have a fish that can kill you. Are you interested in other types of scorpionfish or just the stonefish?

 

[sunfish11]

I guy I know has a Leaf Fish. See if you can look that up, it is a cool fish.

Lisa

 

[babogart]

What size tank again?

How about a couple of "Look Downs". Odd and aggressive.

-Brent

 

[barbra]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10958816#post10958816 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by babogart
What size tank again?

How about a couple of "Look Downs". Odd and aggressive.

-Brent

I was going to suggest a Lookdown but the prices are outrageous, especially since they live wild in my backyard. they don't like their water too warm either.

 

[VaderWS6]

I caught a few baby lookdowns years back, with the long streaming fins. They died in transport though... All three were the size of a half dollar. Are stonefish always deadly, or just deadly with children/elderly? If you get stuck by one, do you have much time to get to the hospital?

 

[VaderWS6]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10958641#post10958641 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by techigirl78
There's a number of threads here indicating all the reasons for not keeping stonefish. Just not good to have a fish that can kill you. Are you interested in other types of scorpionfish or just the stonefish?

Just the stonefish. I've had scorpionfish before, tiny ones I caught in Florida a little bigger than a pea. The largest was the size of an adult guppy.