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[HongT713]

i was wondering does any of you marshians have expierence with lookdown fishes? Are they Reef safe with corals and inverts? will they eat my smaller fishes? i was planing on getting 4 of the big ones city pet has just wanted some info before i purchased them

 

[goby1kanobi]

Tagging along to see what a lookdown fish is???

 

[deepsea43]

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+46+678&pcatid=678

 

[goby1kanobi]

Thanks Chris.
Anybody ever had personal experience?
Expensive!

 

[jdeveaux]

I don't believe they would make a good reef edition and they get Very big. If you've ever been to the downtown aquarium, they have or had a whole school of these guys that were massive.

 

[MarkieB]

Are they Reef safe with corals and inverts? will they eat my smaller fishes?

They get to be almost 2 feet.
They are meat eaters so they should very much enjoy eating your smaller fish and shrimp your have in the tank.

I don't know how true it is, but I was once told they need a round tank to be happy. When you see them in public aquarium it is always in a round tank and they go round and round and round. I believe it has to do with their swimming habits swimming long distances daily in the ocean, and the round tank kinda tricks them into thinking they are making a distance journey. not the same as hitting a solid wall and having to go back and forth.

However, I have no personal experience, this is all based on what I was told at the Aquarium.

 

[deepsea43]

I saw a lookdown that was 20 inches in Corpus Christi. They fed it ghost shrimp and damsels. I do not know if it would eat coral or not though.

 

[deepsea43]

http://fishbase.com/ComNames/CommonNameSearchList.php

 

[HongT713]

yikes i dont want them eating my little fishes

 

[nola9702]

I have also been told that they need round tanks because in the ocean they do not ever have to turn around (which is stressful to them) and in a round tank they can just keep swimming forward. just my $.02

 

[nubz]

dont spend too much on one... i can catch them for free and would happilly help you catch one if you ever come to port a in the summer.

 

[CBBSteve]

I've seen them swimming in circles around my underwater light. round and round and round and round - made me dizzy...

 

[HongT713]

dont spend too much on one... i can catch them for free and would happilly help you catch one if you ever come to port a in the summer.

if u can catch them let me know!!