Antennarius pictus

Antennarius pictus

Maintenance :

Medium

Compatibilité aquarium récifal :

Orange

Taille adulte moyenne :

15 cm / 6 in

Taille minimale de l’aquarium :

100 to 200 liters

Relations intraspécifiques :

Solitary

Relations interspécifiques, ne pas maintenir en présence de :

Predatory, do not put in the presence of fish of size less than twice its own size, nor shrimp.

Dimorphisme sexuel :

No

Zone de vie dans l’aquarium :

Rocks

Mise en garde :

Small fish predator

Conseils de nos experts :

An intriguing and fascinating fish. Master of camouflage, he remains motionless on the lookout, he is confused with a sponge. A fish passes within reach? He agitates a lure fishing rod in front of his mouth, to attract the fish ... which, when it is ready enough, is suddenly sucked by the huge gulf gaping with his mouth, in a fraction of a second!

The antennae must be acclimatized to inert prey; Give only marine animals (small hawk, piece of shrimp); Do not give vivid fresh water over a long period, it is not good for the health of the fish, possibly give it only at the very beginning, if the fish does not want to consume dead prey, but maintain Efforts to move it to marine inert prey as soon as possible.
To encourage the fish to consume a dead prey, the food is wriggled at the end of a pliers or a rod (small hawk or piece of thawed shrimp) in front of the fish, to intrigue it and encourage it to eat . Once well used, the fish will be excited at the simple view of the pliers! The species pictus is the easiest to acclimatize.
It is a very static fish, which has no big energy expenses: feeding twice a week, at the rate of one or two pieces of reasonable size, depending on the size of the fish.

Paramètre physico chimique de l’eau :

Temperature 24-27 ° C, salinity 1.022-1.024, pH 8.0-8.4, KH 6-10, mg 1200-1400, CA 400-480, No3> 10, PO4> 0.05

Régime alimentaire :

Carnivorous

Origine géographique :

Red Sea
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Australia
Pacific central