andywg
Bored into leaving
Seems wrong that the pictures Nina took of the FW are up but not more recent ones she got of of the SW, so without further ado, here is me ignoring all of nmonks' advice and hand feeding my morays (though the white ribbon eel will only hand feed) as well as the trigger and porky:
It turns out that by holding onto a porcupinefish he will start to inflate, which is a fun thing to do. I am assuming he doesn't mind that much as I grabbed him 3 times for these photos and each time he swam off and then swam back towards my hand.
Horn-like spikes!
And sometimes he does it all on his own (or when he is sleeping somewhere and the trigger bowls in to wake him up)
All back to normal. You can just about make out from this shot that there is no "split" in the "teeth" of the porcupinefish (on the upper jaw anyway). Hence it only appears to have two teeth rather than four and this is one of the distinctions between a porcupinefish and a pufferfish (hence the different family names of Diodontidae and Tetraodontidae for respectively).
We also managed to get shots of the frogfish feeding, not bad since her tank has no lights over it at all. First one is just before she lunges, you can just see some sand starting to kick up from where she is about to lunge at the target.
Once caught, the food soon disappears. If you don't twist the stick and get it out swiftly the frogfish will start to see just how much of the stick it can fit in the mouth as well.
Another prawn disappears. Note the disturbed sand and the fact she has made a depression in the sand in that area where she likes to sit. I'm not entirely sure why she has done it (especially as in the last few days she has started to wander all over the tank).
Man, I really wish I hadn't promised the spare tank to seahorses for the wife. I could really do with another frogfish...
It turns out that by holding onto a porcupinefish he will start to inflate, which is a fun thing to do. I am assuming he doesn't mind that much as I grabbed him 3 times for these photos and each time he swam off and then swam back towards my hand.
Horn-like spikes!
And sometimes he does it all on his own (or when he is sleeping somewhere and the trigger bowls in to wake him up)
All back to normal. You can just about make out from this shot that there is no "split" in the "teeth" of the porcupinefish (on the upper jaw anyway). Hence it only appears to have two teeth rather than four and this is one of the distinctions between a porcupinefish and a pufferfish (hence the different family names of Diodontidae and Tetraodontidae for respectively).
We also managed to get shots of the frogfish feeding, not bad since her tank has no lights over it at all. First one is just before she lunges, you can just see some sand starting to kick up from where she is about to lunge at the target.
Once caught, the food soon disappears. If you don't twist the stick and get it out swiftly the frogfish will start to see just how much of the stick it can fit in the mouth as well.
Another prawn disappears. Note the disturbed sand and the fact she has made a depression in the sand in that area where she likes to sit. I'm not entirely sure why she has done it (especially as in the last few days she has started to wander all over the tank).
Man, I really wish I hadn't promised the spare tank to seahorses for the wife. I could really do with another frogfish...
are you really going to do that seahorse tank you promised your wife?
with your porcupine fish
