Finally, It's Here...

Great fish and tank... I've wanted to do the exact same thing (although maybe not a frogfish) on my side of the bed, but the wife claims any water noise or potential water noise would send her running to the bathroom every five minutes during the night.
 
Just wondering, are you also interested in scorpion fish? Very nice, i love these types of fish. I was thinking about setting up a little 10 gallon saltwater tank, but i dont know if these woudl be able to go in it. I was looking at Caracanthus maculatus which seems to be a small predatory sw fish that can live in a small tank. I also have a 15 gal i may use which is 2ft by 1ft by 10inches high. So you say that they should be fed shrimp? How often do you think they should eat?
Very nice, i look foward to seeing the video.

EDIT: this guy is cool too... Taenianotus triacanthus
EDIT 2: OR this guy...Dendrochirus biocellatus
Now you really got me thinking.... Id really like that last one if it would live in a 15 gal comfortably as an adult...
 
Arnt frog fish poisonous? Like drop dead in 3 minuts poisonous? Maybe im thinking of somthing else...

Neat fish thogh, i wanna see some streaming vid of him at feeding time :D
 
Arnt frog fish poisonous? Like drop dead in 3 minuts poisonous? Maybe im thinking of somthing else...

Neat fish thogh, i wanna see some streaming vid of him at feeding time :D

You are thinking of stonefish, also called toadfish (CFC has one, naturally). However there have only been 3 cases of deaths provably caused by these. You actually have a fair amount of time to get treatment, putting the wound into very hot (around 40 degrees C) water will help a lot. The belief you die in seconds is pure myth.

Aww, bless him :wub: Shame he grows though :( He looks like a little shaggy puppy :wub:

He does grow, but from what I can see, he gets even more shaggy.

Got a good look at him luring last night, he has 3 wormlike bits as his Esca (lure) (hence the common name of splitlure frogfish) which he wiggles about by moving his Illicium (rod, or first dorsal spine). Though when I fed him live shrimp today he jst looked it but after I left the room, I can't see the shrimp.
 
Great fish and tank... I've wanted to do the exact same thing (although maybe not a frogfish) on my side of the bed, but the wife claims any water noise or potential water noise would send her running to the bathroom every five minutes during the night.

It is indeed my side of the night, the only real noise is the pump which needs a bit more deadening (read wrapping in sponge with an elastic band to stop it touching anything) and the return where the spray bar sits a little high.

If you were not to convert an old tank into a sump like I did, then it would be a lot more quiet, but where is the engineering challeng there?

Just wondering, are you also interested in scorpion fish? Very nice, i love these types of fish. I was thinking about setting up a little 10 gallon saltwater tank, but i dont know if these woudl be able to go in it. I was looking at Caracanthus maculatus which seems to be a small predatory sw fish that can live in a small tank. I also have a 15 gal i may use which is 2ft by 1ft by 10inches high. So you say that they should be fed shrimp? How often do you think they should eat?
Very nice, i look foward to seeing the video.

EDIT: this guy is cool too... Taenianotus triacanthus
EDIT 2: OR this guy...Dendrochirus biocellatus
Now you really got me thinking.... Id really like that last one if it would live in a 15 gal comfortably as an adult...
No chance of keeping a dwarf lion, or probably any scorpionfish in a tank like this. The Fumanchu lion is recommended for around 25-30 as a minimum. And the leaf fish get a little large too (though there are a couple of lovely ones at a not so local lfs and only £150ish too).

You don't need as much room for a frogfish as they are not active, and the sump adds more volume and added filtration (will probably fill it up with live rock and caluerpa).
 
Well, time for some update pics. Seems he is still a little shy to eat in front of me, but here are some pics from today:

Shot showing the home made LR behind the real stuff

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Tank and sump (a cover will go on the front to make the stand look like a set of drawers again)

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Far away shot

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Peeking out from rock:

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And some randoms including a shot of what I think is some Calurpa on the LR

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WOW what an amazing looking (frog) fish!

Just watched some of the vids from page 1 - that Hairy Frog Fish looks like it should be starring in an episode of Dr Who !!!
 
Wicked man. Nice predator! :hey: So your feeding ghost shrimp? What else are you gonna try to feed him? He is an awsome looking fish. Is the sump just a square or rectangular tank is it?
 
My aim is to not have live feeders, but to get him on a diet I can control (such as krill and whitebait/spratts - or gut loaded feeder shrimps as a treat).

The next feed will be the front half of a frozen whitebait on a stick to see if he takes it.

The sump is my old betta tank I made a year ago (there's a thread somewhere in the DIY section of me making it). It is 14x12x12, so just off of being a cube. I plan to light it soon and grow some macroalgae in there with some LR.
 

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