Wartskin Angler

I am thinking about purchasing a wartskin Angler, there is a great looking one on DD right now. I am thinking of adding the fish to my 40 gallon breeder frag tank. I see they recommend feeding feeder shrimp, was wondering others experience with similar fish and the possibility of weening it onto other foods. Thanks.

 

You have to check with Incognito. She is the expert on that. She trains her fish to eat frozen and get them off live food. But that will be alot of waste in your frag tank. You might have to do larger water changes. But your idea is different.

 

I have seen many of Incognito threads and do hope she will lend me some advice. I may end up PM'ing her if I need to.

 

I would start off with small silversides or krill depending on the size of him. But you might get away with a small shrimp. Use a flexible feeding stick so the frozen appears to look live and it should help.

 

Well I just looked back at DD and it is sold. I did really like it. I may just wait for something like it to be back on. So I still would like some advice on it.

Drs. Foster and Smith Diver's Den® - Antennarius maculatus

 

Keep in mind you have to take the size of your other fish in account when you are talking anglers. If it thinks it can keep it in its mouth it will try to do so. The downside of this is fish big enough to keep this from happening you know run the risk of those fish bullying the angler. Anglers are on the same level as groupers and lions.

 

There are no fish in the tank.

 

Bump, for the night crowd

 

Don't know much about wartskin but had a striated once. I was told to train them on frozen food by getting them used to eating live from the fish net. Once they associate the net with food, then add frozen food to the net. Never could get it trained because I had a grouper and niger trigger in the same tank. Those two made it almost impossible to feed the angler. It was very timid and other fish distracted it. Here's a video I made of it eating live ghost shrimp.

 

I am in the process of teaching my red flame angler to eat frozen. I have had him for about 1 1/2 weeks and actually have been fairly lazy with the frozen food and have just been feeding him live! I have been using the brine fish net way that was mentioned above and works great. He comes right up to the net now!

However in the past I have got all my anglers to eat frozen. I used to use a kaboob wooden and pierce a piece of krill that I had soaked in garlic and HUFAs. I wouldnt feed live for a couple days to make sure he was good and hungry. You do not wnat to piece the krill too much as if it is it might be more difficult for him to rip it off. This will cause him to refuse it much longer.

I would do a little dance with the krill, trying to mimic a normal swimming pattern in front of his face. After a couple days of this usually he will go after the krill and eat it.

THe other way i might try this time is to get some heavy fishing line and threat the line through the krill. Then tie the line onto a powerhead and then leave it alone. The powerhead will make it appear that it is swimming in the water which is more enticing to the fish