Peacock Flounder

[RubenD]

Any comments on this fish?

I just picked one up at the LFS a few days ago but haven't seen much of him.
My Yellow tang was acting aggresive toward him, besides I have not seen him
eat neither.
I used frozen squid.

I'm just wondering if that fish was right for me or viceversa.


Ruben

[KurtG]

RubenD wrote:
> Any comments on this fish?

http://www.csulb.edu/depts/biology/marine/species/Peacock_Flounder.html_f/Peacock_Flounder.html
http://www.sheddaquarium.org/sea/fact_sheets.cfm?id=74

Wow! Sounds interesting.

How big is yours? Maybe it would go for live food like brine shrimp
and/or ghost shrimp.

Or, maybe it's just getting use to the tank. What did the LFS say they
fed it?

Sounds like it would snack on any small tank mates, did you plan on an
aggressive tank?

--Kurt

[RubenD]

It's about 4-5". The LFS told me to use frozen squid to feed him.

However, he keeps hiding, perhaps due to my yellow tank attacks.

Believe, I don't think he's that aggresive, at least not at that size. I
add him because it was different.

My last stock was: 1 coral beauty, 1 flame angel (they got along great), 1
large powder brown tang, 1 small copper tang, 2 nemos,1 large pink square
anthia, 1 blenny, 1Yellow tang. 1 small six line wrasse and a couple more.
They all got sick, I think it was because some ich got in the tank when I
added coral pieces. The only survivor was the Yellow tang and the wrasse.
I didn't had a chiller then, perhaps that was a factor in my loss.

After that I added a large sweetlips, a mandarin dragon to control the pods
and the flounder, to a total of 5 fish on a
125G tank.

I got more inclined to a reef/coral tank now. More coral, less fish.
Trying to collect something different instead of the common fish species you
see everywhere. That's why I picked up the flounder. It will take many,
many years for him to get too big (I hope).

I have to be feeding my sweetlips with live ghost shrimp, he's apoiled.
Maybe the flounder is catching a few as well.

Ruben





"KurtG" > wrote in message
...
> RubenD wrote:
> > Any comments on this fish?
>
>
http://www.csulb.edu/depts/biology/marine/species/Peacock_Flounder.html_f/Peacock_Flounder.html
> http://www.sheddaquarium.org/sea/fact_sheets.cfm?id=74
>
> Wow! Sounds interesting.
>
> How big is yours? Maybe it would go for live food like brine shrimp
> and/or ghost shrimp.
>
> Or, maybe it's just getting use to the tank. What did the LFS say they
> fed it?
>
> Sounds like it would snack on any small tank mates, did you plan on an
> aggressive tank?
>
> --Kurt