A good reason why Anglers don't go with Fish

[smoney]

Ok, so I have had this cool looking little angler fish in my 18 gallon high frag tank and thats all that I have in there. My friend wanted to go with a wrasse tank only so he gave me his two firefish, so I thought, ehhh, no possible way that the anglerfish will be able to take down the firefish so I tossed them in my frag tank. Considering that the angler is only about the size of a quater(as seen in the picture) and the firefish were about the average 3.5" long fish, thought ehh no problem.

So, 5 days had passed until the 6th day when I turned on the lights to the tank and the fire fish were gone. Naturally they probably are hiding, having an 18 gallon tank, you can see all the hiding spots. So, didn't find any fish, well maybe they jumped out, nope.


Well... Ahhhh.... the Angler's Stomach, there they are....

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Size of Angler put next to a quater for reference

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[dodgersfan25]

what a fatty

[Genin]

wow. lesson learned.

[smoney]

Haha, yeah, it was dodgersfan25, I didnt really want them but I took them off his hands and I thought they would be fine, but they were just late night dinner for my angler.

[DrBegalke]

LOL.
I had an angler (about 1.5" long) and put a large lemonpeel dwarf angel (about 4-5")in with him as he was fighting with other fish in my large system...

The next day the angel was gone, I spent about a half hour checking the filters, carpet, etc. nothing. I figure there was no way the angel could fit in the angler's mouth...

The day after that, bright yellow poop on the bottom of the tank. LOL.

[smoney]

Haha, I cant wait for poop from the angler, I'll post pictures if I can.

[Radioheadx14]

i think those fish are sooo ugly that they are cute. i kind want to set up a 24g aquapod with corals and an angler.

[ACBlinky]

Ack! I hope he's okay - sometimes anglers don't know what's best for them, and a large meal can hurt them. He's a cutie, for sure :)

Sorry about the firefish - lesson learned, anglers are hunters, pure and simple. If it fits (or almost fits) in their mouth, they'll eat it.

[smoney]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11178342#post11178342 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ACBlinky
Ack! I hope he's okay - sometimes anglers don't know what's best for them, and a large meal can hurt them. He's a cutie, for sure :)

Sorry about the firefish - lesson learned, anglers are hunters, pure and simple. If it fits (or almost fits) in their mouth, they'll eat it.


Yeah, me and my friend were talking about them before we put the firefish in the tank and we were like their is absolutely no way that the firefish could be eaten, to your suprise and mine it was.