Red Banded Grubfish?

blaxsun · May 11, 2022

I realize this one is way out there... Does anyone have any experience with a red banded grubfish? I wasn't able to find out a lot of information other than it's a sand dweller and eats small crustaceans.

My LFS got one in and reportedly it's been somewhat aggressive with some dartfish.

Jay Hemdal · May 11, 2022

blaxsun said:
I realize this one is way out there... Does anyone have any experience with a red banded grubfish? I wasn't able to find out a lot of information other than it's a sand dweller and eats small crustaceans.

My LFS got one in and reportedly it's been somewhat aggressive with some dartfish.

I've kept the larger Japanese grubfish, Parapercis multifasciata and Parapercis aurantiaca. They get ich pretty easily, but I've never had flukes issues with them. I kept these in with a number of other species and never had an issue, but never something as small as themselves.

Jay

Zionas · May 12, 2022

Did they have any problems taking non-living foods ie pellets and flakes?

Jay Hemdal · May 12, 2022

Zionas said:
Did they have any problems taking non-living foods ie pellets and flakes?

I never tried pellets or flakes on my Japanese species - at 15 cm, they seemed to large for that. They ate diced seafoods very well.
Jay

nereefpat · May 12, 2022

I'd never heard the grubfish common name, but I knew I recognized the genus. I kept a red spot sandperch, P. schauinslandii for a while. Awesome fish. Great personality, and ate well. I did try to add a black cap basslet after I'd had the sandperch for a couple years, and it killed the basslet. This was in a 90 gallon with a yellow tang, Pearlscale buttefly, flame angel, pink spot goby, fuzzy lion if I'm remembering correctly...and I'm probably forgetting something.