orange spot filefish success ?
 

I picked up a gorgeous orange spot filefish last week and I'm curious what everyone/anyones success has been with this fish ? It's eating frozen like crazy and seems to be doing well. Just curious if anyone has any tips they can share... He's a pic not of mine but off google which looks identical to the one I bought.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1

Is your new fish in a reef tank?

you got an orange spot eating frozen????

Wow, eating frozen--that's impressive!

I would love to get one, but I hate to part with my SPS's polyps :razz:

[quote=Abbyreefer;448219]I picked up a gorgeous orange spot filefish last week and I'm curious what everyone/anyones success has been with this fish ? It's eating frozen like crazy and seems to be doing well. Just curious if anyone has any tips they can share... He's a pic not of mine but off google which looks identical to the one I bought.

Did the LFS tell you that they eat coral polyps?
If not you better scoop her up and take her back to the LFS for a full credit.
I am surprised you can find them in LFSs for sale anymore.

I agree, very beautiful, but if you have coral not a good thing... The only reef safe filefish is a emerald green one. I had one, but he eventually died, I think he was bullied

Very beautiful. where did you get it ?
If its not reef safe, it would be nice for my fowlr

A friend has one in their DT - they trained it to eat frozen by starting with brine shrimp, then mixing in mysis slowly, eventually making it all mysis/frozen.

Oh, and it doesn't eat polyps apparently - possibly feeding on slime, but definitely doesn't eat polyps.

Matt Peterson (sp?) has an article on his successful breeding of that fish. It's either in the latest issue of Coral Mag or that new mag "Reef Life".

Cheers,
Vic

The store did let me know it ate corals however I have a FOWLR. I started off the same way. Feeding brine at 1st and then mixng in mysis and no eats pretty uch anything frozen I put into the tank. SO far this is my favorite fish. Love the way it sleeps. Vertically with its back tail completely limped over.

Nice fish
 

Gorgeous fish, did you get it here in abby?

Hate to say it but I got him from big als. My wife wanted to check out Ikea so while she was doing that I checked out Big als and Jl's and ended up with a fish and she ended up with a dresser, light, stuffed animals and decoration for our new addition (baby) next year.

Well I love Ikea and the fish stores so I would not have missed out on either.
As long as the fish is healthy....shouldn't matter where it came from just that it now has a loving home.