Orange Spot Filefish

My other fish tend to get more coverage on other forums and my favourite fish kindda goes unnoticed.... my Orange Spot Filefish. I have a pair, yet the female is top dog because I had her first and spent ALOT of time training her to eat prepared foods. The male wasn't so hard and I think she trained him a little as well.

These fish were once thought to be obligate coral munchers. But some people are actually breeding these now and attempting to raise the young... it's a start.

I got them in September of 2009... pretty skinny at the time but are fattening up nicely now.




Her belly when she first started taking frozen...






Eating frozen brine....



Here she is getting fat...




Saying hello...

 

Here you can compare her size then and now....

 

Very nice. I love those. I only brought a couple of those into the shop. 2 I got to convert to frozen after some time. The third one never did.

 

Oh my. That's a huge feat indeed. Being able to sustain those w/o live coral as food. Good job man. I love those fish but I've never even fathomed the thought of keeping one because of it's finicky reputation.
WTG man. Nice pics too

 

Thanks! They are going into my "Pretty Tank" with "pretty" fish. Besides the seahorses, most of my fish get an "Oh!... ew!" from neighbours when they look into the tank.

 

Those are some really cool looking fish, nice job on taking caring of them too.

 

Have you posted any pics of your tank on this forum? I must have missed them Link?

 

No, you never missed any links... I have 13 tanks. I'm introducing my fish to the new forum slowly...LOL! Can you imagine if you logged on and seen 13 new threads from the new member O.O

I have a lot of pictures.... like 160GB of pictures!

 

I've never seen those before - the colors are gorgeous!!! Look at their eyes!! Stunning. Congrats on getting them to eat prepared food.

 

im sure you could also just give everyone your website in stead of making 13 new show off your fish tank threads.

either way, beautiful fish.

Gexx