What can anglers share a tank with?

[michellejy]

First off, I need to say you predator people are evil because I will need 400 tanks to accommodate everything I love from your posts.

Having said that, can anglers ever be combined with anything else, or do they always need to be on their own?

 

[rayn]

They are typically a species tank. They have HUGE mouths considering the size of their bodies. However if you have fish that are quick and larger then the angler you might get away with it.

I haven't ever mixed them before just as a cautionary method.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

These are one of the guys that DO eat food that is bigger than their size. Their bodies are like the those pelican pouches.... they just stretch and fit it in.

 

[rayn]

Or die trying!

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Indeed!!!!

 

[Davesgt]

Yea usually fish dont do well with Anglers. I know mine will eat anything that will fit in its mouth which is usually anything the size of it. Even fast swimming fish mess up sometimes and get close. I have seen mine literally suck stuff up that is 1-3" away from it, thats how powerful they are.

 

[michellejy]

Okay, that's what I was thinking, but I thought I would check with the experts.

 

[Davesgt]

Okay, that's what I was thinking, but I thought I would check with the experts.

Ohh yea mine does share a tank with a sally lightfoot crab, they both have a nasty attitude towards fish though.

 

[uberfugu]

Even a species tank is questionable, they can be cannibalistic. I try not to mix genera, too many behavioral differences. And best to keep conspecifics of a similar size.

And females out of season have a tendency to try and eat their smaller mate.

 

[David E. MacDonald Jr.]

How about keeping more than one "Angler" in a tank with each other? If they are the same size, will eventually one try to eat the other? I thought their spines were poisonous like lionfish. Would this not be a detergent from eating their own kind?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

They are not venomous, no. Yes, they can eat each other. I would never try to keep two.

 

[uberfugu]

As far as I know, anglers aren't venomous, at least the Lophiiformes. They also eat scorpionfish with little difficulties or ill after affects. There pretty much isn't anything that they won't try and eat up to about twice their own size... including their own kind.

 

[David E. MacDonald Jr.]

So pretty much have to set up a single specimen tank? Will they eat crabs?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Yup and yup.

 

[Baby Ray]

Just out of curiosity, how big of a tank does this angler need-
orange and white pygmy angler
I am not really a predator guy but I love their colors, markings, and that little horn thing on their head

 

[Wilsoni]

Here's my little Clown Angler that I received as a birthday gift last week.

 

[Wilsoni]

Just out of curiosity, how big of a tank does this angler need-

I'd say a 10 gallon is okay for a juvenile but a 20 gallon would be ideal for keeping one long term. Mine is pretty stationary and lives among a few other inverts which he has yet to eat... So far he's only interested in Ghost or Grass Shrimp.

 

[Baby Ray]

Here's my little Clown Angler that I received as a birthday gift last week.

Dang it!!!!!!
Now I want one

 

[Baby Ray]

I'd say a 10 gallon is okay for a juvenile but a 20 gallon would be ideal for keeping one long term. Mine is pretty stationary and lives among a few other inverts which he has yet to eat... So far he's only interested in Ghost or Grass Shrimp.

Can you train them to eat frozen?
How long do they stay juvenile?

 

[David E. MacDonald Jr.]

Very nice "Clown Angler". Now I have to get one, they are so cool looking. Guess I will setup a small predator/liverock species tank.