Help with a frogfish, my first fish

[yote]

What are you trying to feed your frogfish?
He may be a picky eater.

Theres one at the LFS here that will not touch anything unless it goes after his lure.

[Namor]

Yeah, I think you may have something there. I finally got him to eat a ghost shrimp, but it basically had to crawl over his head before he would go after him. That may be a good thing, he may leave my peppermint shrimp alone (got that today to try to help out with pest anenomes at the same time I got the ghost shrimp). His breathing seems to have evened out, and he seems better, still doing a lot of rolling though.

On a side note, when I went to the lfs today they were putting an anenome into a tank, basically they just dumped it out of it's shipping bag into the tank, so this anenome (Haitian pink tip) basically turned into a balloon, swelled at it's base, deflated and pulled in it's tentacles, which exuded a slimy, mucuosy coating that drifted off into the tank, and floated around for about fifteen minutes around the bottom of the tank, the guy at the lfs said they all did that and bounced back the next day! That can't be right can it? I mean I believe they bounce back, but that's gotta be stressful! They don't do that if you drip acclimate do they?

And thanks for the garlic tip, I'm on the prowl for that extract.

[Namor]

Well, whatever this guys problem was he seems to have bounced back fine, he's eating ghost shrimp with ease (1 every other day), he still won't take other foods from tweezers yet. His breathing seems normal, and he seems more stable. I am going to wait two more weeks yet and then introduce him into my large tank. Currently it only has live rock. A month after he's in I will begin adding my corals, 6 months after that my anenome, and 5 months after that my clams. Life is good

[Bifferwine]

What kind of/how much lights do you have?

[yote]

Most frogfish will never except food from twezzers and end up starving to death 9 times out of 10.You usually have to load the tank down with feeders just to make sure they eat at all.

You might also want to think about starting with some corals BEFORE the anemone.Most corals are better to learn with because there not as likely to kill the entire tank if they die.

[Namor]

Hi Bifferwine, my lights on my quarantine? or my main? My main has (36 in length)

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Quarantine is using some t5 compacs with 50/50 actinic

? to yote, I don't understand what you are saying, my plan is to add corals in a month after fish, and then an anenome 6 months after the corals (that's assuming everything goes smooth and there are no problems)

[yote]

Thats because I mis-read your post.
I was thinking you were adding the anemone first.
But since your not,all is well.

[Bifferwine]

Those are good lights. You should be able to keep all kinds of corals and anemones with those.

[Namor]

thanks, I try to do my research first, but lighting seems to be a pretty confusing issue.

As for the feeders I hear ya, I just plan on keeping lots of feeder type shrimps, crabs, and maybe even a damsel or two

[Namor]

Well this guy is still with us, doing great actually. However, he won't eat anything but live foods. I am not overly concerned with that, but want to provide a good diet, what should I look at feeding him? Most of the resources I've found say to feed different foods from tweezers, but he won't eat those. So far I've fed him ghost shrimp, peppermint shrimp (well, I figured they would get eaten, but wanted them to clear out some pest anenomes), and a damsel (I know, I know, but I thought some variety would be good for him). But what are good feeder fish/inverts? I want to avoid goldfish as much as possible.