Tropical Fish and Temperate Fish: Water Temp?

[pickupman66]

WOW. cool fish! Good luck with it and keep us updated on its progress. the healthy appetite is a great sign. It looks quite healthy.

 

[eatbreakfast]

Looks like he is going up to the water surface to look for food. I've always heard that doing so isn't good for box and cow fish cuz the extra air ingested may cause some swimming bladder issues. What I've failed to succeed is to stop the cow and box fish that I've owned in the past from doing so.

I've had cowfish eat from the surfave and it never causedany issues.

 

[Friday24]

Looks like he is going up to the water surface to look for food. I've always heard that doing so isn't good for box and cow fish cuz the extra air ingested may cause some swimming bladder issues. What I've failed to succeed is to stop the cow and box fish that I've owned in the past from doing so.

I'm not sure about the swim bladder problems, or how I would stop him, but he goes pretty much anywhere to look for food...lol.

 

[sc50964]

I'm not sure about the swim bladder problems, or how I would stop him, but he goes pretty much anywhere to look for food...lol.

As long as you don't feed him when he comes up to beg for food, that's the best you can do.

 

[Friday24]

As long as you don't feed him when he comes up to beg for food, that's the best you can do.

Good info, thanks!

 

[eatbreakfast]

As long as you don't feed him when he comes up to beg for food, that's the best you can do.

Is there amywhere that elaborates on that process of ingesting air is a problem?

Something similar is that puffers have problems if they take in air while puffing, but I've also seen this happen many times without ill effect.

I actually believe someone observed correlation and not causation with cows and boxes but has spread it as fact.

 

[sc50964]

Is there amywhere that elaborates on that process of ingesting air is a problem?

Something similar is that puffers have problems if they take in air while puffing, but I've also seen this happen many times without ill effect.

I actually believe someone observed correlation and not causation with cows and boxes but has spread it as fact.

That article came from a guy who claimed to have owned his cowfish for quite some time. The longest that I was able to keep mine was about a year. If not for the powerhead failure, it could've lasted longer. I've always just treated this info as a cautionary "not-to-do", since I could not get it to stop begging for food at the water surface. They are already quite delicate due to its incompatibility to many faster/-larger reef moving fish and the constant worry of stressing it to release toxin. I think it's just a topic that doesn't need further investigation and just sort of look out for it.

 

[Friday24]

Mine doesn't really beg, he just goes straight to the surface anytime food is put in the tank...sometimes completely ignoring the sinking food to take it from the top

 

[eatbreakfast]

I had a longhorn cowfish for over 2 years, until it outgrew my tank, and I habe a customer with a thornback cow for going on 2.5 yrs. Both went/go to the surface to beg/spit/investigate.

Most other fish that swallow air expel it pretty easy. And any buoyancy issues with other fish is readily diagnosed as swim bladder related. I also find the ratios of other fish with buoyancy issues and boxfish with buoyancy issues are pretty comperable, so when I see buoyancy issues in a fish that possesses a swim bladder I'll think that rather than ingested air.