Frogfish Bowfront

[tomtom2245]

Ever since we moved into the new house, the finished basement has always been a little empty as we didn't have the furniture to fill it out. Well now that it's mostly furnished and we use the space, we setup a 26gal bowfront that I got for free a while ago. The plan is to have it be a frogfish tank with some softies, lps, gorgonians, macro, and maybe a clam or two. I had the stand custom built by my coworker who does woodworking on the side as I wanted a nice wood stand that had some extra shelf space around the perimeter of the tank. As far as equipment I have a Jabao PP-4, Tunze ATO, eheim jager heater, oversized HOB filter to act as a mini fuge and to hold the temp and pH probe, generic black box LED fixture, and a RKL. The overall look is to hopefully resemble the Lembeh Straits in Indonesia. My wife and I went diving there for a week and fell in love with the place. Frogfish everywhere and black volcanic sand bottoms. Currently the cycle is pretty much finished and once that is complete I'll start adding in some snails and a few corals. Holding off on the frogfish until I'm sure everything is stable.

Now for some pics starting with the stand construction!

Aquascape for now:

 

[Haddonisreef]

Very nice pretty sure there's two blk frogs at animal attraction in Greeley

 

[MuralReef]

Super cool and simple!

 

[neil82]

Really nice looking setup!

 

[tomtom2245]

Very nice pretty sure there's two blk frogs at animal attraction in Greeley

Do you know what type they are? I'm looking for a wartskin or painted.

 

[tomtom2245]

Super cool and simple!

Thanks! They may be simple but I've had tremendous luck using a standard HOB filter instead of drilling and such.

 

[Haddonisreef]

Do you know what type they are? I'm looking for a wartskin or painted.

Not sure u might call.

 

[TheRealChrisBrown]

Here's mine eating: http://www.marinecolorado.org/forum/reefkeeping/fish-aa/650409-edwardo-eats-my-anglerfish

I've found it to be pretty easy to keep Mollies in a brackish water tank and just feed him one fish 2x a week. He doesn't want anything to do with silversides, and guppies and goldfish died before he could get to them in his tank.

 

[tomtom2245]

Well I finally picked up a fish! Divers Den had a nice wartskin angler the other day. He appears to have settled in nicely and already went after the shrimp I put in there for him.

 

[tomtom2245]

And not only is he eating but he's eating frozen krill as well!

 

[Haddonisreef]

And not only is he eating but he's eating frozen krill as well!

Awesome looking fish!!

 

[SynDen]

Love him, good to hear!

 

[TheRealChrisBrown]

I've been having really good luck with mollies and my Angler. I think they are some of the coolest fish, and everybody likes to watch him eat!

Just out of curiosity does he whip his esca with a frozen krill?

 

[tomtom2245]

I've been having really good luck with mollies and my Angler. I think they are some of the coolest fish, and everybody likes to watch him eat!

Just out of curiosity does he whip his esca with a frozen krill?

I've only done the krill once and he was already angling before I fed it to him so I'm not sure if he'll start when I put it in or not.

 

[tomtom2245]

Tried my hand out with the Gopro and slowing down the video afterward. I don't think it came out too bad. Excuse all of the floating particles, sand got stirred up while trying to place the camera.

 

[tomtom2245]

[video]https://vimeo.com/181706480[/video]