boxfish

[ambystoma82]

any idea wat boxfish diet n behviour?

[moxa]

Hi bro ambystoma82

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any particular breed you are having? I have a Marine fishes pocket guide book which can refer can post for you

cheers

Moxa

[ambystoma82]

10s 4 e help!

[yuji]

i feed by boxfish frozen food. they loved them!

[cornyfish]

well i've not kept boxfishes before but i once had a longhorned cowfish which belongs to the same family as the boxfish.. It loved frozen bloodworms, so i suppose u can try?? Anyway, be careful that you dun keep any aggressive fish that may chase the boxfish around, cuz they're well known for their ability to release poison into the water when stressed, killing everything including themselves in the tank.

[Terryz_]

For diet, you can try frozen bloodworm, frozen mysis shrimp...

Avoid mixing it with fast swimming and aggressive fishes... It is very timid and might release toxin (Which IMO rarely happen, never happened to me before)...

It is very ich prone too... So be sure to soak the food in garlic before feeding it...

Hope it helps...

[cornyfish]

Yup, these fellas seem to be very prone to ich... My cowfish looked perfectly fine in the LFS's tank but when i brought it home the white spots started to appear the next day.. Took a long time for it to recover.

Which means any new boxfish/cowfish must be kept in a seperate holding tank for at least 2 weeks before transferring it into the main tank if you dun wanna take the risk of introducing a nasty ich infection into your main tank.

[Zero Oxygen]

6 weeks is the best to determine there is no ich....

[boxfish]

mine prefer brine shrimp but will take whatever you throw into the tank including your finger

[cornyfish]

Personally i dun like feeding brine shrimps to this family of fishes cos i find that they like to chew and then spit out bits of brine shrimp, dirtying the water. (well, at least mine does ) Doesn't seem to happen with bloodworms though..

[RAV-65]

Had many boxfishes before and if they are stable, they eat practically anything, try not to house them with boisterous tankmates and also dun have powerheads that are too strong... They hardly release toxins, unless under tremendous stress and threat.. also, avoid mixing in additives into the water that are undissolved, for instance salt clumps... they dun like eating dat and they show it by dying the next day!

[damien]

cowfish aka boxfish website:

http://www.cowfishes.com/index.html