Anyone Have A Boxfish??

[spicyball]

Hi ppl..i would really like to have a yellow spotted boxfish..those very small one..ya..

heard they r not reefsafe and will wipeout my whole tank with the toxin they release when thry die....

Can anybody who have this fish tell me more abt it??..is it hardy?

[DeepBlue]

Flubberina used to have a cowie....can pm her......dun know whether she still has it......

[Clownfish]

the hard part is to coax it to eat... cos it is a veri shy fish....

if worse comes to worse, it died, taking it out immediately wont give chance for toxins to come out....

[Dispar_Anthias]

Flubberina used to have a cowie....can pm her......dun know whether she still has it......

Think she sold hers away

[flubberina13]

I did NOT sell Cowie away!!! I wun sell my friends!!!

Anyway, my Cowie and two boxfish aka Boxy and Boxster eat like crazy so I have to give up Cowie which I believe is in good hands...Aqua Reef???

My two boxfish have been with me for more than seven months liao...What I know is that they are 'copcats'...Monkey see...Monkey do...whatever the big brothers eat, they follow...

Infact, they have more than double the size...Used to be as small as the dice use for playing mahjong...Cute friskly fellows...

They do like to eat frozen brine shrimps and Ocean Nutrition Formula Two food pellets most even though I feed my tank with variety..'you name it...I have tried it' types...

[Dispar_Anthias]

I did NOT sell Cowie away!!! I wun sell my friends!!!

Anyway, my Cowie and two boxfish aka Boxy and Boxster eat like crazy so I have to give up Cowie which I believe is in good hands...Aqua Reef???

My two boxfish have been with me for more than seven months liao...What I know is that they are 'copcats'...Monkey see...Monkey do...whatever the big brothers eat, they follow...

Infact, they have more than double the size...Used to be as small as the dice use for playing mahjong...Cute friskly fellows...

They do like to eat frozen brine shrimps and Ocean Nutrition Formula Two food pellets most even though I feed my tank with variety..'you name it...I have tried it' types...

You gave to aqua reef????

[kenzo]

used to have 1 tiny boxfish..

was doing fine until i added a dottyback..

he kena stressed and within 10 minutes my entire tank wiped out..

had to do 100% water change too..

no more boxfishes for me...

[flubberina13]

used to have 1 tiny boxfish..

was doing fine until i added a dottyback..

he kena stressed and within 10 minutes my entire tank wiped out..

had to do 100% water change too..

no more boxfishes for me... 

hey...my condolences...

Btw...can explain what are the symptoms showing that they are stressed?

I kept two boxfish and used to have a BIG cowfish but they have been doing well...just gotta keep my fingers crossed...

I ever had a dottyback but it just disappeared...Guess it's the doing of my hermit crabs!!!

And my newly acquired Floundy aka flounders also disappeared...

[Razo]

boxy n boxer still wif u?

[flubberina13]

boxy n boxer still wif u?

Yup...of course...but it's Boxy and Boxster lah...they have at least tripled their size now...I gave away Cowie though but he is still in my thoughts so I reckon may get a small Cowie next time...

[FuEl]

HuH? What about your tubeworms?

[blue.tang]

used to have 1 tiny boxfish..

was doing fine until i added a dottyback..

he kena stressed and within 10 minutes my entire tank wiped out..

had to do 100% water change too..

no more boxfishes for me...

thot of keeping box fish cos it's sp cute but look at yr experience...so scary now

[FuEl]

Boxfish are evil sheep in tiger clothing.

[flubberina13]

HuH? What about your tubeworms?

Funny thing is that they ignored my new tubeworms but now have a fetish for Xmas Tree Worm!!!

[boxfish]

I'm keeping 1 boxfish.. see picture on left

luckily I manage to keep it alive more than half a year and it has grown many times its "purchase-size".

it eats most of the things you throw into the tank especially brine shrimp

I think it's reef safe .. never kill any of my mushroon, leather, fox, octopus, star polyp, ricordea florida and many tube worms....

BUT it does attack slug... sigh.. wat a pity

yes it will let off toxic under stress.. killed four fish... which I intend to remove... ... i love my fat boy boxfish

quite hardy... manage to fight off ich/white spot spread by regal tang... in the end ich kill regal tang and 3 other fish but fat boy manage to recover! now with richer color in comparison to those sold at LFS of similar size

[FuEl]

Funny thing is that they ignored my new tubeworms but now have a fetish for Xmas Tree Worm!!!

My offer to worm-sit your worms still stands...