Hi Again

I am glad everything went ok with changing the sand. Lovley looking fish.

Sabby

Thanks Sabby,

You and your husband helped me straighten this out. When I changed the sand I did a whole water change, right away the nitrites were lower and stayed lower than I even had before. After the Cycle it is like all my other tanks, running on cruise control!

I agree about chemicals in this type of sand, who know what else could be in there mutating the fish!

im glad everthing worked out so good, nice looking fish there, definitly a very interesting fish someday ill get one

I picked up 2 more Panthers today!!

They are very small tho, like a 1/2 inch or less. The only prblem I have is feeding them, becuase they are so small. They are very skinny,needing to eat, and being fussy eaters does not help. So I am trying to hatch some brine shrimp fpr the first time. To make sure they see them and get to eat some I will place the fish in a container insid the aquarium and pump the shrimp into the container with a seringe. Hope they can live another day with out food.

The news panthers are dead! The brine shrimp didnt hatch in time. They were very thin looking when I bought them, probably from shipping and stress.

I beleive that the small size of these new fish makes them very hard to keep. It doesnt help that they are very fussy eaters. I will get some more with the credit but I will make sure that I have brine shrimp ready and that they are larger than fresh hatched.

Better yet I will see if the LFS can get larger ones, like the one I have now. When they are larger they are easier to feed.

I to have beem wandering about the dusky panther waspfish or goby. I had one that was about 2 inches but he died he was hard to feed got week and was caught in the filter. I have only seen them at liveaquria.com. where did you get yours?

I got them from my LFS, I have seen them at one other store a few years ago. If you had one that was 2 inches it should have been easeir to keep. That is the size of the one I have now. You will have too feed it live foods. I have had no success with frozen or other food. When I fist fed mine I used live ghost shrimp to get it eating. Now I use feeder guppies, with an occasional ghost shrimp.

Every one I have seen is very stressed from shipping, and very skinny. The foods I just mentioned will get them healthy again, then you could try frozen, I however have run out of patience for it and now am trying to raise feeder guppies.

The LFS got a shipment of wasp fish in! So I bought the biggest one! Took it home yesterday and put in some feeder guppies.... GULP!! He chowed down! It was very skinny, like I mentioned in the previos post, but because this one was a little bigger, he was able to eat a small guppy. Now he is FAT and I know that it will be ok!
Ill take pics tomorrow, this one is a 1/4 the size of the other.

hello~ im setting up a new tank and im debating about making it brackish because id like to have a few wasp fish. any advice would be greatly appreciated iv got a 5 gallon tank which presently is in the very beginning stages of cycling. its got white sand about an inch deep, cured bogwood, and java moss presently, .... and java lance fern on the way. the plan so far is to cycle it for 6 - 8 weeks with wild guppies (which will provide natural food for the wasp(s)) and then slowly add a wasp fish every week or 2 (being considerate of the strain on the biofilter) until iv got three. never done brackish water before and iv only goten into this hobby within the past few months when i got a betta. i grew up always catching tadpoles and what not and raising them as a kid so im not entirely new to this in certain respects but an actual aquarium is new to me so any advice will be welcome.

Pics of the tank and all the Wasp Fish

Here are some new pics:




this is the new one





As you can see there is a huge difference in size. But they get along fine, just ignoring each other. I feed the small one in the bowl pictured. The aquarium is too large for it to catch guppies. So I place one in the container with it. It waste no time. My wife almost made the mistake of touching it wile it was it the container! Maybe I should have let her

Wow great looking fish. Very interesting. Glad to here their getting along just dandy.

Go Brackish!! I think 5 gallons will be good for a start, if the waspfish are the size of my small one. Plan on getting a larger tank soon after tho. Ditch the white sand! In my first post you can se I had a lighter colour substrate, the wasp fish wasnt out very much, and had a hard time blending in with it. Theese fish like to ambush prey, and white substrate will not help them. Just do your research on how to set up a brackish tank. Good job on the patient cycle They better the water and tank, they moer likely the waspfish will live.

Thanks Randell!

This post has been edited by el_vulture619: Jan 4 2008, 03:02 AM

Posting an update

All is well in waspfish world! The small waspfish is growing really fast and is up to an inch long now. The larger one is still growing also. I can see this fish growing past 4 inches!

i want one!! I've never seen these in the UK

Me neither, they look very cool.Keep us updated.
O, and I demand new pics!

hxxp://tropicalfishfinder.co.uk/stores_productsinfo.asp?store=6&prod=1250 just in case direct links aren't allowed.

cheers only £5.50 each but they are probably too small for my brackish tank as my morays and toadfish have very big mouths!!! pity