Marine Betta

[StringerBell]

Awesome--
I stumbled upon a beautiful U.S. Quarter sized marine betta Juvenile at the
LFS.
Its in my tank now less than 48 hours and is still a bit of a skulker.
Do they ever come out of the Rock for extended periods?
Please give your success or failure stories with this unique fish,
thanks--------

[KurtG]

StringerBell wrote:
> Awesome--
> I stumbled upon a beautiful U.S. Quarter sized marine betta Juvenile at the
> LFS.
> Its in my tank now less than 48 hours and is still a bit of a skulker.
> Do they ever come out of the Rock for extended periods?
> Please give your success or failure stories with this unique fish,
> thanks--------
>
>

I had to look it up as I haven't heard of this one. It's funny that one
mail order site said that it will beg for food, but then it seems to be
a fussy eater as well. Heard to say.

http://www.marineaquariumadvice.com/marine-betta-calloplesiops-altivelis.html
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/universal-viewid215.html

[StringerBell]

Thanks for your reply,
the first link you gave had the wrong fish pictured. The second one was dead
on---they are fascinating suckers. Their body and fins are much like the
Freshwater Fighting fishes, They are covered with an irridescant spots and
half a false eye on the back fin that makes them mistaken for Moray Eels.
The fish run from the fake eye, right into the real mouth!
Thanks for info,
My guy seems to be adjusting fine---he`s just a naturally shy-type.



"KurtG" > wrote in message
...
> StringerBell wrote:
>> Awesome--
>> I stumbled upon a beautiful U.S. Quarter sized marine betta Juvenile at
>> the LFS.
>> Its in my tank now less than 48 hours and is still a bit of a skulker.
>> Do they ever come out of the Rock for extended periods?
>> Please give your success or failure stories with this unique fish,
>> thanks--------
>>
>>
>
> I had to look it up as I haven't heard of this one. It's funny that one
> mail order site said that it will beg for food, but then it seems to be a
> fussy eater as well. Heard to say.
>
> http://www.marineaquariumadvice.com/marine-betta-calloplesiops-altivelis.html
> http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/universal-viewid215.html

[Wayne Sallee]

They are easy to keep, but they will eat some of the
things that you will want to keep in your reef tank.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


StringerBell wrote on 2/8/2007 7:15 PM:
> Awesome--
> I stumbled upon a beautiful U.S. Quarter sized marine betta Juvenile at the
> LFS.
> Its in my tank now less than 48 hours and is still a bit of a skulker.
> Do they ever come out of the Rock for extended periods?
> Please give your success or failure stories with this unique fish,
> thanks--------
>
>