Finally, It's Here...

He will usually just walk along the bottom, though can swim when necessary.

Others of the genus (particularly A. commersonni) have been observed swimming with jet propulsion; by sucking water into the cavernous mouth and expelling it through the gills. I am unsure if that is what happens with this little one or not.

On plus point, I tried him on half a sprat yesterday and he took it. These things are lightning fast when they strike.
 
Well, it fed on dead for the second time tonight, so here are a couple of vids.

In the first one I put the whitebait on too hard and as such the frogfish could not pull it off the stick. Then Nina slipped and the camera moved (bad quality as it is on my phone).



In the second one you can hear a jealous cat moaning at us two looking at the tank and not at her...And you can see the frog strike on the bait :D

This is seriously the coolest fish I own 8)



Enjoy!

Andy
 
love this thread, and love, love, love that fish! fantastic video too, I liked how pushy you were with it. I'd of been swimming it by his face all non-chalant like :look:

So how long has your tank been set up? My 100g marine is barely four months old, with only damsels, and I'm nervous about getting something expensive and awesome just yet.
 
What a super cute little dude - I *want* one ! :wub:
 
love this thread, and love, love, love that fish! fantastic video too, I liked how pushy you were with it. I'd of been swimming it by his face all non-chalant like :look:

So how long has your tank been set up? My 100g marine is barely four months old, with only damsels, and I'm nervous about getting something expensive and awesome just yet.
Tank was set up on Saturday when I got the fish

A couple of nights ago I fitted a skimmer to it, though it's not pulling any real skimmate yet.

I occasionally think of getting some damsels for the frog, but I don't want him on anything too large yet, and I am not a great fan of feeder fish, even if it might give a hcance to see some real luring.

If you get a frogfish then A. striatus are apparantly a good breed, as others will tend to hang out in crevices as opposed to this guy who just sits in the open all day waiting for food.

I will probably pick up some zoos at the weekend, and may even try some cleanup hermits and snails. I can't see him going for the snails, and will watch and see with the hermits.
 
The tank was already drilled and I had already made the sump and had bought the return pump.

I bought the salt water from the lfs, poured it in, and then acclimatised the fish. Very similar to how one would set up a FW tank.

Marine is not as hard as all the FW people seem to think. All you have is an extra thing to check (SG) with a FOWLR. it only gets nasty once you get heavily into stony corals such as SPS.
 
I googled frogfish images earlier today, and there are some truly ugly creatures out there, yours is by far the cutest I've seen!@
And you're a brave man doing it all in one day. I understand it's nearly as simple as freshwater, but certainly more expensive!
 
White bait eh? :hey: Tryied prawn yet? Mine lion wont even taste it. :no: Cool vids, I shall deffinately try some white bait.
 
I can't believe it took me this long to find this thread! I LOVE that fish!!! What size is the tank? Sorry if it has already been mentioned, but I didn't see...
 

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