Attention Anglerfish/Frogfish owners....

[Vahanyos]

Hey guys.

Got a 40g tank I might reboot and house an angler fish/frog fish. It’ll be the only inhabitant in the tank so there will be plenty of room for him. I’ve done much research already so I’m pretty well educated on them.

What my question is, how do you feed it and what do you feed it?

I am a very minimalist Reefer. I would like to hear or see some ideas of what you feed it, how often, if you have a separate holding tank for your feeders??

Ideally, I was thinking of losing my fuge compartment in my sump with some ghost shrimp or feeder shrimp and harboring them there until it’s feeding time. Is this possible? Anyone doing this currently? How often are you feeding yours and do you often have to visit the LFS for live fish??

I’m interested to see your setups too if you do house your own food source...

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Hey guys.

Got a 40g tank I might reboot and house an angler fish/frog fish. It’ll be the only inhabitant in the tank so there will be plenty of room for him. I’ve done much research already so I’m pretty well educated on them.

What my question is, how do you feed it and what do you feed it?

I am a very minimalist Reefer. I would like to hear or see some ideas of what you feed it, how often, if you have a separate holding tank for your feeders??

Ideally, I was thinking of losing my fuge compartment in my sump with some ghost shrimp or feeder shrimp and harboring them there until it’s feeding time. Is this possible? Anyone doing this currently? How often are you feeding yours and do you often have to visit the LFS for live fish??

I’m interested to see your setups too if you do house your own food source...

If I'm not mistaken ghost shrimp are a FW shrimp correct? You could do a separate FW tank to hold and potentially breed them.

Check out inappropriate reefer on YouTube. He has a lot of videos regarding his frog fish.

 

[Vahanyos]

Oh cool, I’ll definitely check him out.

I guess I used the term too loosely, I hear there are more brackish shrimp that I can acclimate for a long time so they can live in saltwater. For how long I’m not sure, I guess long enough to be dinner? Lol

I’m curious to hear from other Frogfish owners to see what their regime is for feeding

 

[Jon Fishman]

I scooped up a ghost shrimp that was mistakenly put in a sw display at a local shop. He survived 2-3 days in my tank until Puff-daddy found him straying too far from the rockwork and he became dinner

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Oh cool, I’ll definitely check him out.

I guess I used the term too loosely, I hear there are more brackish shrimp that I can acclimate for a long time so they can live in saltwater. For how long I’m not sure, I guess long enough to be dinner? Lol

I’m curious to hear from other Frogfish owners to see what their regime is for feeding

I suppose that's true. If you can throw them in the tank for feeders I guess saltwater isn't all that bad for them

 

[Vahanyos]

I scooped up a ghost shrimp that was mistakenly put in a sw display at a local shop. He survived 2-3 days in my tank until Puff-daddy found him straying too far from the rockwork and he became dinner

Is puff daddy your angler?

 

[lion king]

There are many varieties of anglers available today, so which variety will change a bit to what you feed them in the long run. Over feeding is a big problem and I've found a week to 10 days between feeding to be best. You feed them a good amount of smaller prey at each feeding until you see a nice bulge in their belly. They can eat prey as large as themselves but it's not recommended, on occasion it has proven deadly. A warty can eat ghosties even at full grown size, while a painted or other anglers that get larger will need mollies when the get larger.

Ghost shrimp are a variety of shrimp that live in fresh, brackish, and salt; they are just easier and cheaper and ship better in fresh. They don't have a long lifespan and don't expect to breed them. If you keep them in salt expect to have a higher lost rate, I visit my lfs about once a week, but I am feeding 10 live eating predators at the moment. Gut loading your ghosties or other feeders is best, you can even vitamin soak them prior to feeding or keep them in a separate tank and dose the tank with vitachem or similar. A simple 10g tank or even small rubbermaid type container with a sponge filter is fine, they wont last as long in temps reaching over high 70s, so a fan to cool if necessary. Feeder guppies are also good for the smaller anglers, mollies for the larger or various size mollies that are size appropriate. I keep all of my ghosties, guppies. and mollies in one tank; I just started a larger tank to breed mollies. Here is the one I kept for years, a 10g, the extra filtration and heater is because of the mollies; ghosties and guppies are more forgiving.

I would prefer to keep a small separate fresh water tank/container for my feeders. Ghosties, guppies, and mollies don't have a problem living long enough to be eaten, if you are feeding on a good schedule and your angler is hungry. In the wild their method of feeding is fast and gorge.

 

[Vahanyos]

Very informative, thanks for the write up man. I’ve seen your fts on another thread while researching, haha. Great tank! Good to know I can also put some colorful LPS with him... I was thinking mostly mushrooms and zoas, and a big lobo I cant live without. Any advice with corals?

I’ll probably take the route you did and keep a small freshwater tank and host some shrimp in there. I don’t mind stocking up every two weeks or so.

 

[lion king]

Mushrooms, zoas, and lobos would be great. They will perch on your fav from time to time, but if healthy they'll prob get used to it. I'd catch my painted with a foot on one of my brains like Captain Morgan, they got used to it, it wasn't all the time. You just arrange your corals around his preference of perches and pathways.

 

[Jon Fishman]

Is puff daddy your angler?

No. he is a Sharpnose Puffer...... No angler experience, just ghost-shrimp experiments!