Volitan and frondosa

[Pufferpunk]

Mine lives with 2 sharp-nosed tobies, who were picking on corals in my reef tank.

 

[seahorsedreams]

My other scorps are easy to figure out feeding schedules and amounts wise. Will I keep feeding until he finishes taking them? I don't do that with my others. I keep going until they hesitate and then lunch is over... well that or they have already eaten what I've thawed. Of course there's other cues, but I traditionally don't feed until they flat out refuse.

With the frondosa I should do this? On... say, Sunday and Wednesday? If I feed 3 average silversides is that in any way shape or form near enough? I would prefer to underfeed than overfeed and don't want anything rotting in his gut.

 

[seahorsedreams]

K, I'm revisiting this idea of the frondosa and the volitan... and thinking about adding the new escheyeri.

Something happened with the frondosa tank so we had to remove him and stick him in the volitan tank last night. The eschmeyeri is in a 28g QT. We were thinking about tearing down the frondosa tank that was to be shared by the eschmeyeri later.

We starting tossing around of setting up the 100g that we have empty for all 3. I will post a picture later of their size difference.

They are all eating frozen, so that shouldn't be a problem.

myerst2, how long did your volitan and frondosa live together? Long enough for thevolitan to grow into an adult?

Oh course all of this makes me nervous.... if anything happened to the frondosa I'd be very very upset. But the volitan needs a bigger tank and the fronnies tank needs to be "figured out and redone", so it seemed like a perfect time to put one up in the spot the old tank was in.

 

[FMarini]

sounds like a good plan. Bigger tank for sure w/ the Lionfish, and if its really big you should'nt have any issues adding the Rhinopias

So- may i ask, whats wrong w/ the purple R. frondosa

 

[seahorsedreams]

Both the Rhinopias are full grown and thick.

The fronnie was in a divided tank that was shared with a mantis who got stuck in his molt and died. The tank absorbed that without a hiccup but didn't deal well with it's owners going in there and messing around :-( We brought the new guy home and put him in QT and then proceeded to get the mantis side ready which involved removing his underground pipe/cave.The fronnie instantly got "edgy" A little bit of ammonia showed up. Nitrates were up, but not too much and the pH was low. That's when we decided to yank him out instead of trying to fix it with him in the tank.

He was pacing like he was hungry and then by the end of the night he was running into the walls and generally looked to be trying to escape.... swimming to the surface.....

When we put him in the volitan tank he seemed to calm immediately and is fine again today.

 

[seahorsedreams]

How long does it take a frondosa to change colour? He looks proud as a peacock sitting amongst the green caulerpa. I don't want him changing and this tank is definately green with meadows of green macro and different varieties of GSP. When I'm sure his old tank is okay, I'm going to put him back in there until the 100g is set up.

After the QT I'm going to put the escheyeri in the second half of that tank.

 

[FMarini]

thats a great question,
in anglers its can happen as quick as months.
Most of the Rhinopias I've seen have kept a semblance of their coloration athou they tend to get darker and darker

 

[the real fishman]

beautiful fish. whats the life expectancy of these fish? is it short like anglers?

 

[seahorsedreams]

They are suppose to be rather short lived... 2-3 years. Mine are also full grown so I don't know how old they are.


In my mind I feel like these guys should live longer because they are so sedentary... most sedentary fish are long lives.

 

[FMarini]

renee--
they should be long lived, as most scorpionfish are.
However until recently Rhinopias were unaffordable to the common person, so only public aquaria displayed them, and the public aquarium data suggest they are short lived.
Since regular folk now keep rhinopias we are starting to see reports of 3-5yrs being common

 

[M5774H61]

here is mine

here is mine

this is my rhino... never had any problem with a lion

 

[seahorsedreams]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14642523#post14642523 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FMarini
renee--
they should be long lived, as most scorpionfish are.
However until recently Rhinopias were unaffordable to the common person, so only public aquaria displayed them, and the public aquarium data suggest they are short lived.
Since regular folk now keep rhinopias we are starting to see reports of 3-5yrs being common

That's better news.... let's hope they are not already 4-1/2!

The new tank is going to have quite the bioload!

 

[seahorsedreams]

They turned out to be great friends!

 

[FMarini]

Check please.......

awesome photo, glad they turned out to be best buds

 

[seahorsedreams]

Again, I wanted to revisit the colour question. It's been 8 months and the frondosa hasn't changed colour. The Eschy that we got him changed a nice time ago.

Maybe he won't change? Maybe?

 

[seahorsedreams]

 

[Mentat]

What a way to update a thread Renee, awesome Lion and photo!

 

[seahorsedreams]

Did you see the mention of the lifesapn of the rhinos? Saw you asked in asnother thread.

 

[namxas]

Did you see the mention of the lifesapn of the rhinos? Saw you asked in another thread.

yeppers...NOW i remember. :idea:

that's a great pic, BTW. 14" of pure awesome beauty! can't wait to get it into the 100 gal.

for those of you who don't know, i rarely see pix before Renee posts them. it's kinda fun to cruise the forums and say "hey...that's our fish!"

 

[seahorsedreams]

It was 3:31 am... you were sleeping.