has anyone had a sea goblin?

[luv4jjt]

I purchased a sea goblin today. I myself admit had never seen one or done my homework on one yet. But he is the first fish going back into my tank after i lost all my fish early dec. So i will be able to revolve my stock list around him. I learned some from the fish store i bought him from but can anyone who has had one tell me any more about them? I haven't seen him eat yet but i have been putting ghost shrimp and grass shrimp in there and they seem to disapear. But if i am looking in the tank he seems to cower away from the shrimp. What other foods can i feed him? I know just shrimp can't be a balenced meal.

 

[jstdv8]

found this on a different site. these things look pretty cool. never heard of one before. Looks like this guy has had luck with them with wrasse and tangs. no angels or triggers.
they are carnivores so i would assume (don't know for sure) that they would be reef safe. probbaly really hard to get to eat frozen as they wait till stuff passes by to eat.
Seagoblins, a man after my heart. These are really cool scorpionfish that spend 90% of th eday bruied under the substrate w/ their eye poking up. They are ambush feeders that wait for food to pass overhead then they spring out of the substrate to engulf its prey, then climb back under.
There are 3 species of this fish that are common in the hobby, one pretty and 2 ugly--okay all are ugly, but ones colorful and they others aren't) Inimicus caledonicus and Inimicus didactylus tend to be dull are frequently solid grey or grey/tan/black, but occasional colorful specimans exist and I. filimentosus frequently is covered w/ blotches of colored looking skin mimicing sponge.Their heads look very different is usually the best way to ID these fish.BTW their common names are seagoblins or ghouls.
AS for care and compatibility. They require docicle tankmates, and access to live food at first. Like Keith mentions they will eat anything that fits into their mouths, and in my experience require live ghost shrimp or sw feeders to get established in your tank. Additionally, any tankmate that picks on their skin (like angelfish or triggers) my have to be seperated. I found these fish very neat and hardy w/ my other scoprionfish, tangs, wrasses.
Lastly, becuase they do hide under the substrate frequently, please excerise care when you clean the tank, make sure you can see the fish just to keep from getting a surprise and they are of course venomous-like all scorpionfish
I've attached a link to a whole issue of reefkeeping mag on keeping scorpionfish, beside the great article on keeping lionfish, there is one on keeping scorpionfish, inwhich photos of my imicus are there
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-11/
frank
Frank

 

[fmarini]

Congrats on the seagoblin (Inimucus)-
As shown above these are one of my fave scorpionfish.
I'm the frank who wrote that "posted" reply to another fish keeper and also wrote the articles linked on that issue of reefkeeping.(which by the way will most likely disappear-since they dont seem to allow links to other sites on here).If the link does disappear just type my last name(marini) and scorpionfish or lionfish into google those articles will come up.Actually I'll apologize for all the spelling errors in the above response-yuck.
I know your going to revolve a stocking list around this fish-so just ensure the tank has substrate(preferably sandy, althou small crushed coral will work) and a constant supply of ghost shrimp available at first. It took maybe 2 or 3months to wean my goblins onto prepared foods- but all of them eventually took it. Ghost shrimp is not a balanced meal- but it will work temporarily, consider feeding the ghost shrimp marine flake fish food and other marine based foods-this will gutload the shrimp to make them more nutritious.
During this time- you cant have much food competition in the tank- so I would wait until your goblin is weaned over before you add any new faster swimming or eating fish.
These are great hardy fish who eventually will eat everything. If you have access to reeflife magazine- in the sept/oct issue is my article on keeping inimcus w/ tons of great photos by scott michaels

 

[luv4jjt]

Thank yo so much for the responces. They are great. I will definatly check out the info. He is a cool little guy. I will let you know wich he one he is. I am not sureyet. He is kind of purpal in color. I will get a pic of him.

 

[skate020]

i've never heard of this thing before, and i looked it up, they look awesome,
are they a type of lion? they have the body shape of a lion,
if it does bury itself i reckon it'll be 10x easier to get it to eat frozen, it wont get scared and hide behind rocks when you try to feed, (my lion does that ALL the time)

 

[jaxfishgirl]

Cant wait to see a picture of your little guy!