Where can i get THIS FISH!!
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Jeremy Blaze
Former Reef Addict
Yahoo news?
I LOVE frog fish/anlgers!!!
They are BY FAR my favorite fish, I am thinking of putting one in my 65 gallon reef since there is nothing in there that they could eat except for maybe my 3 peppermint shrimp but in my experience with them and shrimp in larger tanks with lots of rock is that as long as you keep them well fed and get them onto frozen food they dont bother anyone AND they are super neat to look at
these are my other favorites aside from the one you posted
this is the red and white frogfish I have ALWAYS loved
Warty frogfish
longlure frogfish
They are BY FAR my favorite fish, I am thinking of putting one in my 65 gallon reef since there is nothing in there that they could eat except for maybe my 3 peppermint shrimp but in my experience with them and shrimp in larger tanks with lots of rock is that as long as you keep them well fed and get them onto frozen food they dont bother anyone AND they are super neat to look at
these are my other favorites aside from the one you posted
this is the red and white frogfish I have ALWAYS loved
Warty frogfish
longlure frogfish
Gagstr
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Not for sale tho, i saw it there and i was like holy egyptian pyramid fish i must have one!!!! :bum:
anyone know anyone that has this fish or might be get this fish?? I dont want to revert to :uzi: to get this fish in ma tank!
isnt Yahoo news great- dont you also want the blind hariy lobster?
Anyway- the psychadelic angler was discover a few years back and got alot of press then. According to the intial press report Dallas world aquarium had one of these specimens for a while, it didnt do well.
I had a diving friend go to ambon just to seek these fish out and take photos- he was there for 2 weeks and never saw the fish. The original description of these fish suggest they are rare and extremely well camouflaged. So finding them will be an issue. If you notice its eye face forward- which suggest is stuffs its body into a hole and the head faces out- it must be impossible to detect
So-- lets keep our fingers crossed that they come into the hobby-but important since anglers appears straightforward to breed-maybe they are w/in reach
Anyway- the psychadelic angler was discover a few years back and got alot of press then. According to the intial press report Dallas world aquarium had one of these specimens for a while, it didnt do well.
I had a diving friend go to ambon just to seek these fish out and take photos- he was there for 2 weeks and never saw the fish. The original description of these fish suggest they are rare and extremely well camouflaged. So finding them will be an issue. If you notice its eye face forward- which suggest is stuffs its body into a hole and the head faces out- it must be impossible to detect
So-- lets keep our fingers crossed that they come into the hobby-but important since anglers appears straightforward to breed-maybe they are w/in reach
fender4string
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Holy hell! I don't really care for scrorps/frogs (whatever that fish is) but that is pretty damn cool.
Gagstr
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Good intel Frank, as long as someone gets an m/f pair and can breed them its seems like a possibility and may even help increase population numbers of this obviously scarce but exceedingly beautiful creature. However, if they are that rare in the wild, then im assuming that the idea breeding them might have some sort of a wrench thrown in it at some point?
As for the hairy lobster... it looks like a freaking woolly mammoth, you can’t mess with a woolly mammoth.... haha.
As for the hairy lobster... it looks like a freaking woolly mammoth, you can’t mess with a woolly mammoth.... haha.
Gagstr
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exactly how i feel!! +1:wavehand:
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
IIRC, the binomial name of the fish is Histiophryne psychedelica. I suspect this fish may be similar to Hippocampus zebra (zebra seahorse) in that it's super rare, has a very limited range, and as Frank mentioned, hasn't done well at all in captivity. However, when folks see pix of them, they immediately "want" one (I know I do).
Unfortunately I don't think anyone has been successful at captive breeding of frogfish so that's another wrench in the plan.
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
Agreed...
Uberfugu (on the now defunct Grim Reefers site) worked on getting the fry raised, but as far as I ever heard, he couldn't get them very far.
I also know that LisaD here on RC had a pair spawn a few times, but I don't recall if she tried to rear the fry.
not totally true....
antennarid sp has been breed repeatedly in captivity, and everyone is correct, the fry have proven difficult. However today is a different day. There are a wealth of microfoods available today that were NOT available even a few months ago. I think Anternnarids will be cracked soon, they are just too easy to breed.
There is a thread on marinebreeder.org w successful breeding and raising of fry of the 3 spot angler Lophichthys sp as they had much larger fry after hatching. So who knows maybe H psychodelica might be an easy one
antennarid sp has been breed repeatedly in captivity, and everyone is correct, the fry have proven difficult. However today is a different day. There are a wealth of microfoods available today that were NOT available even a few months ago. I think Anternnarids will be cracked soon, they are just too easy to breed.
There is a thread on marinebreeder.org w successful breeding and raising of fry of the 3 spot angler Lophichthys sp as they had much larger fry after hatching. So who knows maybe H psychodelica might be an easy one
MrTuskfish
Team RC
Everything I ever want from YAHOO news is either drug-addicted or half silicone.
namxas
Things With Stings R Us!
*wiping lemonade from my monitor* :lolspin:
I just saw one on a website "MAYBE" divers den but I could be wrong but they only wanted 50 bucks for that particular angler you want OP
silentcivilian
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Anglers and Frogfish are neat.. the trick I think is getting them young.. and well we dont really have a underwater infared scope dohicky device to finding out just how many critters we are missing when we examine a wall.. like Frank said, they likely park their rear in a hole facing outwards in the most obvious spot all the while chuckling watching all these divers going by looking in wierd places. Im guilty, my first devils scorp I saw diving was sitting 2 feet from me staring at me as Im looking around in all the bizzare spots. Detection is the problem, im sure the germans are working on a newfangled Angler detection sonar infared detection unit that also doubles at keeping your fruitloops from getting soggy in the morning. Till they pull through, we are stuck hoping!! we find stuff by running into it.
Meg close enough for me atleast LOL
I have been thinking of adding a really nice frogfish/anglerfish intomy dads FOWLR tanks since the last one I had he LOVED with a passion, He LOVED spearing fish and crabs and **** and hand feeding him it was probably the highlight of his day
