The Puffer Forum

I know he's not a puffer but thought you guys might like him, I was told that he is a Lophiocharon lithinostomus or Marble Mouth Frogfish. I call him "Ent"

Suprisingly he has not eaten the 2 cleansers yet




Marble Mouth



Super close up

That is by far one of the coolest fish I've ever seen.
Love the name!! He does indeed look like an Ent

It's been still so long it's taken root! Sprouting moss all over lol. Maybe for now the shrimp is providing a valuable cleaning service, it's next vital role will be to fill a hole in the stomach of a hungry frog fish lol

I love frogfish. Never seen one that colour though

That was the first night... the shrimp no longer venture near the Frog hehe, they will come close when food is around but will keep a good distance away.... they know

Hey gsp32 is he really that green or is it algae growing on him?

That is his skin He likes to hug the rock and "be the algae"

I have a few videos of him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja8Ha0c4dOM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqZK4yOTfA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4JbqHa1BiY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-TFvPaiId4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGS0oFmcNU

hehe

love em always wanted a frog fish. and the leaf fish wow

Hey gsp32, if you're interested here's a couple of links to the frogfishes I had and a thread I started on ultimate reef.com about frogfish

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29982&hilit=frogfish

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/show ... p?t=534496

Yes Arny I saw your little guy on here so I figured it would be ok to post mine. What happened to your Frog? You say "had"??

Thanks Darkstorm... I got him because he was on sale and I'm so happy I got him. I am hopefully getting a few more preds in the next few weeks and once I do I'll post my reef on here It's hard to call a 110g a predator reef when there is only one predator in there hehe but he is hilarious

I had one myself long ago in my office at work. I guess that was part of my thing for invisible fish. I traded him (?) off when I left that job as I had no place at home for the set-up. They seened pretty easy-care fish as I remember, but he did eat several cleaner shrimp while I had him. He ate MWF only if I did not have to go in on weekends, and I guessed he did not like weekend with two-day fasts, so I quit trying. Very cool fish, and one of my favorite "Where's the fish? tanks.

I showed my mom a pic and she said "where's the fish" I said "right there" and she said "where behind that green thing" hehe I'm getting a lot of "all I saw was a rock full of algae" hehe but here in real life be is pretty active for a frog, walks around and swims in the front of the glass... he is in a 56g by himself... I know that you could keep him in smaller tanks but I feel like he uses a lot of the tank hehe. He is hilarious.

And they are rather puffer-like. Be careful though - it is awfully easy to learn how much some fish just love a "big" (relatively speaking) tank. Don't get hooked on SAPs - I tried them in a 120 and started thinking about the empty 180. Then you start wondering if you are keeping fish or they are enslaving you...

I'm in an apartment with 2 6 foot tanks hehe, I think that is the max... I did have a 60g and a 45g I sold, I wanted less tanks actually. We have the 125g fahaka tank, my 110g reef and the 56g Frog tank all in the living room... We also have a 20g and 10g in the "cat's room" for feeders... I have thought of shutting down the reef and just keeping the 56g or vice versa... it's enough work as it is

GSP32 wrote:Yes Arny I saw your little guy on here so I figured it would be ok to post mine. What happened to your Frog? You say "had"??

Thanks Darkstorm... I got him because he was on sale and I'm so happy I got him. I am hopefully getting a few more preds in the next few weeks and once I do I'll post my reef on here It's hard to call a 110g a predator reef when there is only one predator in there hehe but he is hilarious

Yeah both the frogfish died unfortunately. I'd like to get another one in the future.