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very interested in this info as im at the 2 month point of having my angler. he is happy and eating currently frozen silver sides. i keep researching anglers and keep reading about an issue that can arise later when keeping these guys. it is all related to nutrition and them stop eating...or stop moving ..and starving to death. i want to avoid this and am wondering if i should start just throwing a blue chromis in the tank for him to eat.
my concern is what if he doesnt show interest in the live food? i mean immediatly? should you just leave a live fish in there to entice and eventually the angler will come too?.........you know he will make the chromis make a nighttime disapearence (eat 'em up). thanks again for your info and this thread! its great for us with anglers and dealing with the specific care issues and questions that arise with these strange and remarkably adapted creatures.
my concern is what if he doesnt show interest in the live food? i mean immediatly? should you just leave a live fish in there to entice and eventually the angler will come too?.........you know he will make the chromis make a nighttime disapearence (eat 'em up). thanks again for your info and this thread! its great for us with anglers and dealing with the specific care issues and questions that arise with these strange and remarkably adapted creatures.
The author makes no further mention about the white spots in this article. I have been feeding Charlie small pieces of silverside or krill every two to three days......he's a juvenile so his metabolism is higher. I am giving him one guppy (fed marine flake) per week right now. I'm in the process of acclimating my guppies to saltwater and waiting for babies to be born to have a constant supply.......Charlie goes crazy when he sees the guppy coming his way. I just release it near him and the shock of full saltwater slows it down enough for Charlie to score!
It's always sad when they go.......I've had three and my friend has had two. They always seem to go around the two year mark. The one I have now is a juvenile painted and I'm going to try a different approach. My friend subscribes to the "Coral" magazine. I think that is the right name. It's the one that comes out every other month and is transcribed from German into English. Anyway there is an author/doctor who wrote an article about Frogfish in this months magazine. She said the reason they die in captivity is that they slowly starve to death even when eating thawed frozen food, ie. shrimp, silversides. They eventually will start breathing hard and stop eating altogether. It is critical at that time to get some "live" food into their diet. According to her, they are starving for "live" food! She has successfully kept frogfish alive for over three years feeding them guppies that are gut loaded with marine food and acclimated to low salinity saltwater. I'm going to get a copy of the article from my friend and try out what she says. Janey
