etepperman
Member
You get to choose one impossible fish that is guaranteed to live a long and full life.
I would pick the orange spotted filefish.
what is your pick?
I would pick the orange spotted filefish.
what is your pick?
You get to choose one impossible fish that is guaranteed to live a long an full life
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MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
OSFF are far from impossible to keep. they just require some special care to get transitioned. 
etepperman
Member
OSFF are far from impossible to keep. they just require some special care to get transitioned.
please share more info. I would love to keep one, but don't think I could get it to eat.
Tripod1404
Active member
One of the arabian butterflyfish or blacktail butterflyfish.
And yeah, OSFF is not a super difficult fish to keep. It requires training (for feeding) and it is very important to get a healthy individual. But once settled and eating, it is a considerably hardy fish. People even captive bred OSFF in home systems.
All in all, DD has OSFF weaned onto prepared foods. But I have never seen someone being able to wean corallivore butterflyfish to prepared foods and keep it alive for long.
And yeah, OSFF is not a super difficult fish to keep. It requires training (for feeding) and it is very important to get a healthy individual. But once settled and eating, it is a considerably hardy fish. People even captive bred OSFF in home systems.
All in all, DD has OSFF weaned onto prepared foods. But I have never seen someone being able to wean corallivore butterflyfish to prepared foods and keep it alive for long.
MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
i would recommend either single female, or a bonded pair. for whatever reason the males seem harder to introduce new foods to. my female has always been the first to try anything.
food size is important. they have jaws similar to seahorses, so making sure things are small enough to allow them to eat easily is a big one. live white worms and live black worms, live brine shrimp, hikari myses, blood worms, flakes, pellets, are all good foods to try. mine especially like to eat nori off the clip too.
they require a lot of regular feedings, especially while in QT. they didn't tolerate prazi treatment too well, it suppressed their appetite more than i was comfortable with, but they made it through TTM just fine.
water quality needs to be impeccable. i also planned a few years in advance and stocked my tank with fast growing, easy, SPS. to help supplement their diet, and make sure that they were getting at least some of their normal nutrition. they don't hurt the corals, and are mostly after slime from what i can see. i still get exceptional growth, just no polyp extension.
here's my thread. they're not impossible, just very difficult. however, like with most fish in this hobby, given good animals and the proper conditions, they thrive. mine even spawn.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2545824
it will be 3 years this december that i've had them.
-edit- i should also point out that i got my pair from Live Aquaria Driver's Den, and i would STRONGLY recommend anyone considering these fish does the same. you have to keep an eagle eye on their sale list, because OSFF only come up once every so often, but the fish i got from LADD were in truly excellent condition, and they had done a lot of the hardest work for acclimating them to prepared.
ericarenee
New member
Mermaid (you never said it had to exist, but wait does it ?
davocean
Active member
ericarenee
New member
:bounce1: It will not be a Boring Life for you,This i can assure you.:bounce2:
I can't wait to begin my new life in your home!
nereefpat
New member
ooh. That's a good one.
Ribbon eel would be cool.
I agree some of the butterflies that are obligate coralivores are gorgeous.
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