My Wife's new fish.

[Tumbleweed]

Well when I started in this hobby my wife was just a simple bystander who excepted my obsession. Now after a couple of years my wife has her own tank and makes trips to the fish store without me. Which she did today to pick up her new fish.

Tassle Filefish

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[scuba71]

Wow... what an amazing looking creature.

 

[Gomer]

cool little fish :-D Any concerns with it eating your coral?

 

[arod2051]

Lucky dog. Can your wife talk to my wife?

 

[Tumbleweed]

I heard it eats polyops but her tank has no coral in it, it is a FOWLR tank. SHe has a puffer, lion fish and snow flake eel.

 

[sfsuphysics]

I remember when the "aiptasia" eating filefish came about, "hey what happened to my corals"

However in a FOWLR system, that could be quite epic.

 

[drdoolittle]

LOL.. thats the exact fish that my wife wanted to buy for my reef tank... While we were at a fish store, she was like " babe, look at this fish, pretty cool lookin, could we get it for your reef tank?" :O my answer was a screaming.. HELL NO! hahaha

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Too funny.

I think all reefer wives want you to get seahorses and puffers too

 

[GreshamH]

I remember when the "aiptasia" eating filefish came about, "hey what happened to my corals"

However in a FOWLR system, that could be quite epic.

Like any fish, there are success stories. I know some in full blown reefs. Most do eat polyps though.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Too funny.

I think all reefer wives want you to get seahorses and puffers too

Don't forget the cute little box fish

The cow boxfish, humu humu trigger, clown trigger are high on the list of "oooh can we buy one"

 

[mpoletti]

I keep a filefish in my frag tank with all types of coral. They are an interesting fish for sure

 

[Tumbleweed]

Too funny.

I think all reefer wives want you to get seahorses and puffers too

Don't forget the cute little box fish

The cow boxfish, humu humu trigger, clown trigger are high on the list of "oooh can we buy one"

Yep she likes the cow box fish as well. :bigsmile:

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Yes, everybody needs a herd of cowfishes.

An entire cowfish famiily in an Aquapod would be so cool

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Seriously though, my wife's first fish way way back was a dogface puffer that we "had to rescue" from PetCo.

It had sad puppy dog eyes...

Then it "needed" a Stars & Stripes puffer so it wouldn't be lonely.

Then they both needed a playmate.... Porky the porcupine.

Then they all would do the puffer dance and spit water at her to train her to feed them

 

[GreshamH]

Yes, everybody needs a herd of cowfishes.

An entire cowfish famiily in an Aquapod would be so cool

Pure torture given how large some cowfish (longhorn+ 20") can get. Boo on you for suggesting it

Look at this print from Wikipedia:

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[sfsuphysics]

Do those large ones still fizzle about like the small ones? It looks like a mean little fish with horns, thorns, and teeth all over the place... but if it has two tiny fins and kind of flutters about it'd almost be laughably cute

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Haha... sorry, I should have looked for the sarcasm smiley.

It's just that I've seen so many people look at those and boxfish in a store, and you totally know what they're thinking

 

[seminolecpa]

Yes, everybody needs a herd of cowfishes.

An entire cowfish famiily in an Aquapod would be so cool

Could you put in a ceramic cowboy with a lasso that has bubbles coming out of it too

 

[arod2051]

I'm determined to get a humu humu in my reef tank that doesn't eat polyps and won't grow to more than 5" in my tank before I die.

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Yes, everybody needs a herd of cowfishes.

An entire cowfish famiily in an Aquapod would be so cool

Could you put in a ceramic cowboy with a lasso that has bubbles coming out of it too

Sure thing pardner

Just got to make sure that the ceramic is anemone safe