I do have bunch of clips in wmv format... about 100 meg total, I think. I can put those onto a CD.
Frogfish don't need a big tank like other fish their size might. Scott Michaels has kept them for extended periods of time in a 5 gallon, though you have to stay on top of water quality for that small a tank.
20-30 gallons would be easily workable for the medium sized 4-5 inch frogs. I've been keeping pictus frogs in my 72, but that's way bigger than necessary.
Smaller frogs, and dwarf frogs could stay in a 10 or so. Baby frogs, especially baby ones of the more cryptic types do better in small tanks, for ease of feeding.
Giant frogs, the football sized Commersons, would be better in 60 plus, IMO.
Frogs in general do best with reef quality water on the low side of the temp range. "Tonga" temps would be good.
The ones in the vid, I believe are A. dorehensis, or New Guinea frogfish. A smaller cryptic type.... not the best for a display tank... more for frogfish geeks. Max size is 3", but supposedly most are not bigger than 2". These were 1.5" and 2".
Dudley... fish porn, hahaha. I did post on Grim Reefers using the subject, "XXX Here is teh hot sechs of Frogfish pr0n!!!11 XXX". It makes sense if you hang out on GR. Check out their off topic forum.... one of the most un-PC reef forums I've been on. It cracks me up.
Phong, hehehe... yep ugly. That's why I'm Mr. Ugly! Boxfish??!! Those get hecka big, don't they? If you put a frog in a 100 gallon tank with 10 small fish, you get a 100 gallon tank with 1 fat happy frog
Go ahead and put a Commersons in your 100. Your wife will fall in love with your fish. Then you say, "Oh no... this is the Giant frog... I thought it was the regular one! We have to get another tank so Nemo and Dory won't get eaten! They look really scared!" Then you get to have your second tank. Frogfish are easy to catch. You can just reach in the tank and scoop them up. Don't let them swallow air, though.
Rich, yep. Egg raft is saved. I have it in the tank in a deli container with mesh/lid. Supposedly eggs can hatch in 2-8 days.... I need to do some major quick RTFM on raising fish fry. I'll probably get Bryan/Uberfugu to help. He's been trying to breed Lophiocharon frogs. He posted an interesting diagram of a frog fry raising setup. Gotta hit up Jimsar for info on raising fry too.
Good sources of frogfish info:
The Frogfish Files on RC
Frogfish forum on Grim Reefers
Zubi's frogfish site
Reef Fishes vol. 1
Frogfishes of the World - the holy grail out of print Pietsche book on frogfish
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Think frogfish would be a good meeting lecture topic? Would be cool if we could get Scott Michaels or Thomas Pietsche to do a talk. Any thoughts?