mystery fish in my tank

[2quills]

Ok, so I get ready to go to bed lastnight and I check on the tank one last time before I turn the lights out. What do I find? Someone decided to surprise me by putting an angel fish in my 50g system. Don't know where it came from but I have a pretty good idea.
I haven't had time to take a pic yet pluss its hiding in the rocks. Im drawing a blank here but off the top of anyones head do u know what type of angel this is?...white body, yellow rim all the way around with one black stripe running down its face? Its a juvenile.
Im not sure whether to laugh or be realy upset right now.

 

[snakeblitz33]

sure it's not a raccoon butterfly?

 

[meowzer]

No picture? I'm not sure how I would feel about someone putting something in my tank?
I hope it was qt'd (yikes)

 

[snakeblitz33]

I don't think I would like it if anyone put something in my tank without me giving permission either. I have my little quirks of how I like things done and what-not, and messing with my tank without my knowledge does make me pretty upset. Then again, it's only happened once. muhahaha.
Anyways, when you can, please post a pic of this mystery angel.

 

[2quills]

Yeah im gonna try to get a pic tonight. That sucker was hidding deep in the rocks this morning. Seth, you might be right in that it could be a butterfly. It looks similar to a few of the images of saddle back butterflies that ive seen. But the only black coloration that I saw on this one was a single stripe running down the sides of its face. Then again it also looks very stressed.
A good friend of mine is the only one with a key to our house. He comes over durring the day sometimes after work to do laundry at our house and let the dogs out. He also happens to have anout 5 tanks of his own but all fresh water system.
Turns out that his friend caught it here localy in the gulf and had it in a bucket so he thought he would bring it to my house as a gesture of good faith.
I think normally I would be pretty upset. But he knows that the only thing that I have left alive in that tank right now is an ocellaris. Everything else has either died or been donated back to the fish store since Ive had so little time to take care of things properly.
I think I'll do what I can to try and save it till I can find it a new home.

 

[2quills]

Juvenile Threadfin Butterfly?


Edit: Scratch that, I think it's called a spot fin.

 

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[2quills]

That's great. Thanks for the insight. Friggin spammers. lol

 

[spongeycrab]

Juvenile Threadfin Butterfly?


Edit:  Scratch that, I think it's called a spot fin.
Yup that's a spot fin butterfly

 

[2quills]

He's been swimming about in the tank since I got home lastnight. So far it looks healthy and the wife likes him because he's shiny. But I need to try and track down some live mysis today because I didnt see him eat last night. Anybody out there have success in converting one of these to frozen foods?

 

[spongeycrab]

A finicky carnivore, the Spotfin Reef Butterfly can be somewhat difficult to entice at first. To encourage eating, offer live, vitamin-enriched brine shrimp, clam, and mashed squid or shrimp. Once eating regularly, offer mysis shrimp and frozen carnivore preparations at least three times a day.

 

[2quills]

Thanks spongy. I had seen that info lastnight as well. Nobody in town has any live foods at the moment. I guess I'll swing by my local place and pick up some more of thier homade blended food. It has all of that good stuff in there. Hopefully he'll take a liking to that and starts eating. After watching him swim around last night I'm starting to take a liking to this lil guy.

 

[2quills]

Well the spot-fin (chaetodon ocellatus) ate really well toinght on frozen food. I was surprised. I mashed up some squid and tossed in some frozen mysis and he seemed to like it pretty good. So that's a plus. He almost appears to be right at home
Unfortunately this is Ocellaris territory so he and the clown have been sharing a few words. The clown is a little bit of a mean son of a gun, he's lil bit older and he's lil bit wiser. Though the butterfly appears to be pretty young and spry. Brave though a bit foolish, perhaps. But then again he also comes strait from the ocean and he ain't tryin to hear non of that mess that the clown is talkin. I'll have to keep an eye on this. But so far it's the typical sizing up behavior along with laying down some ground rules that is always common with new introductions. This spot fin butterfly (chaetodon ocellatus) is a little swimmer.

 

[gemmy]

That's a gorgeous fish!!! Good luck with him!!!!