Anglers (1 Viewer)

[BostonJosh]

Has anyone worked with anglers and scorpian fish before? What do they eat that is readily available? Are they reef safe? And just general information about them would be helpful.

 

[deepsea43]

I had a scorpionfish and he ate anything meaty. He was awsome and was like 8 inches long. Sadly after 6 months i lost him due to an eye infection. Here is a pic...

 

[Guest]

They don't swim well to be in a full blown reef tank.

Also they will eat anything that presents itself.

 

[nola9702]

did you take yours out of your 30 gallon ek?

 

[Guest]

No... there's no where near as much flow as it seems in there.

 

[bangoo]

Has anyone worked with anglers and scorpian fish before? What do they eat that is readily available? Are they reef safe? And just general information about them would be helpful.

I've had angler that eat a damsel about 3x the size. It took him 10 days to digest. Feeding wise I was able to train them to eat frozen shrimp. You start off with live ghost shrimp and gradually they'll accept frozen ones. My scorpion leaf fish I have now is eating frozen shrimp too. He is so tame I can't clean my tank w/o him following my hand constantly...never got stung before.... 8)