FROGFISH owners......

[sjfishguy]

Does anyone's frogfish/anglerfish take frozen food and if so, how long did it take you to ween them onto frozen?

[scottp]

mine eats frozen silversides and most all frozen.It only took a few feeding before he took to the frozen after dethawing the fish got some tong and put it right in his mouth and started to move the fish I guess the frogfish got upset and took a bite,been good ever since,sucks now since I have to hand feed it just to make sure he does get to eat

[LisaD]

I have a pair of pictus anglers I have had almost 2 years. The female took frozen after a few weeks, the male has never accepted it. I feed slivers of ocean nutrition gel cubes from a bamboo skewer for variety in the diet. I also feed ghost shrimp and guppies. Don't count on being able to convert your angler to frozen, some never will. It's a crap shoot.

[sjfishguy]

Do you have two anglers in the same tank? I have heard they will eat each other? I do not have an angler now, just doing a little research before deciding to get one in the future. any info wuold be great!

[LisaD]

Yes, I have a pair that spawned last spring. They do fine together, but it is kind of hit or miss with pairing them - you can minimize your risk of them eating each other by keeping the same species together, and avoiding trying to pair the most voracious (IMO sargassum anglers, A. hispidus and A. striatus).

BEST research tools - read up on frogfish in Reef Fishes volume 1 by Scott Michael, he is something of a frogfish expert and has an excellent chapter. Also, look at posts by uberfugu, he has paired many frogs and has had some spawns. I think there is also a good frogfish thread somewhere here on RC.

[LisaD]

oh, another thing - IME frogs can be delicate shippers. if you can get one local that has been established in a LFS tank for a while and is eating you have a better chance of survival. also, stores and wholesalers almost always misidentify species, so you are best off getting one you can actually see first (unless you don't care that much about pairing them or what species you get).

[axia55]

My first Anger took about two weeks before I weaned him off Ghost Shrimp and onto krill and silversides. My current one has NEVER had live food. It ate a frozen SS the first day I had it.

[sjfishguy]

Thanks for the info. I dont really care about pairing them or breeding them, as long as I get one that looks cool. Its good to hear some people that have gotten thiers to eat frozen. Thanks.

[ClamIAm]

The one I had ate frozen after a month or so, but I had never bothered trying before that and imagine it would have had I tried sooner. I have seen some that take frozen foods immediately as well, especially larger ones.

[LisaD]

Thanks for the info. I dont really care about pairing them or breeding them, as long as I get one that looks cool. Its good to hear some people that have gotten thiers to eat frozen. Thanks.

You do need to be sure you get one that stays in the size range you can acomodate in your tanks, so if you want one for a smallish tank, do not get a commersonii (they get as big as a football).

Also, they can change colors dramatically, but some species are more colorful than others. Just don't assume the color you get is the color it will stay.

While some may take frozen food, hope for the best, but plan for one you need to feed live food to its whole life.

[Cruella]

had mine for a week now. started taking frozen two days after I had him. scallops,shrimp and silversides. I do give him a peppmint shrimp for a snack still

[Absint Reefer]

how do you sex frogfish?

[althefishguy]

I have 3 anglers and a couple of scorpion fish
when ever I had a problem getting them to take frozen I used a clear feeding prong they can't see it and you can make the food appear live after the start to eat it they don't take long to accept it with out help. It only cost like 1.50 great little tool