Feeding our Oyster Toadfish

lmm1967 · Jun 28, 2018

Took the time to finally put together footage of us feeding our Oyster Toadfish. Came in as a hitch hiker on live rock in September, 2016.

Here he is the day we discovered in a box of live rock.

Toadfish Day 1

lmm1967
Jun 28, 2018
oyster toadfish

And here is a video of him eating in June, 2018.

Jump to 5:25 in the video to skip the boring part. Embedding here won't seem to take my starting position.

mta_morrow · Jun 28, 2018

Very cool!

It’s great that you set up a place for him, and kept him. Thanks for sharing.

lmm1967 · Jun 28, 2018

Thanks - We do our best to keep and care for pretty much anything we put in our tanks - except for the vey worst hitch-hikers like flatworms.

Daniel@R2R · Jun 28, 2018

That's awesome! What a cool hitchhiker!

Bob Loblaw · Jun 28, 2018

Great video! What kind of camera are yall using?

lmm1967 · Jun 28, 2018

Bob Loblaw said:
Great video! What kind of camera are yall using?

That was a Canon G7x Mark II

kenniole · Jun 28, 2018

thats an awesome hitch hiker.

Jax7 · Jun 28, 2018

Very pretty fish!!! Awesome job with him!!

tweeter · Jun 28, 2018

He's beautiful!!!

jasonrusso · Jun 29, 2018

Just for scale, how big is the Pvc pipe he stays in? Is that 4"?

MUSBFRANK · Jun 29, 2018

That is pretty dang cool, glad you kept and cared for him/her instead of just dropping it off at a lfs!

oldfishman · Jun 29, 2018

That is surprisingly a very beautiful fish. Thanks for sharing

Struggler · Jun 29, 2018

Beautiful fish. Warms my heart that you have taken care of him so well even though he was a hitch hiker. Does it have a name?

OriginalUserName · Jun 29, 2018

Wow, he's pretty. Nice find.

najer · Jul 21, 2018

Great find, gorgeous little thing.

lmm1967 · Jan 18, 2019

jasonrusso said:
Just for scale, how big is the Pvc pipe he stays in? Is that 4"?

Sorry for such a late reply. That is 6” pvc.

PrimaryQwilfish · Jan 18, 2019

Omg that fish is so awesome! Too cute!

McPuff · Jan 23, 2019

I used to have a few of these little guys... some friends in grad school did work on them and there were always a bunch of babies available. :0) They were so fun to keep and very cool looking! Nice to see someone keeping them in their systems.