Longhorn Cowfish In A Reef Tank
I would like to know your opinions on longhorn cowfish.
Longhorn cowfish in a reef tank. He came with the tank we bought so that s how we ended up with him. When housed correctly the cowfish longhorn is long lived. How big do they actually get.
Longhorn cowfish or horned boxfish adults are reef fish often solitary and territorial and live around sand or rubble bottom up to a depth of 50 meters. With regard to the issue of being delicate getting sick nuking the tank etc. Eat just about anything i could give them if its small enough.
In their natural habitat the longhorn cowfish can reach about 50 centimeters but in the aquarium they rarely exceed 30 centimeters. When possible the longhorn cowfish should be the first fish introduced in the tank. I can t seem to find a lot of information about them online.
The reef tank community of reef and salt water aquarists. When housed correctly the longhorn cowfish is long lived. I have a few questions about them.
Use caution if placing the cowfish longhorn in a reef tank as it may nibble on tubeworms. Similar to other boxfish the longhorn cowfish s skin is poisonous and when threatened it will release a toxin lethal to other tank members including other longhorns. 2 2 5 long fully grown.
Ive recieved some very conflicting stories about longhorn cowfish. They have a box shaped angled body characterized by the presence of a bony shell which completely covers their body from this shell the anal dorsal and pectoral fins stick out as well as the tail. I ve read they can grow up to 16 inches in lenght but do they really.
It is intolerant of other longhorns so keep it in a large tank with some live rock for algae scraping. Very hardy and somewhat tolerant of parameter swings. The longhorn cowfish main characteristics.
It is intolerant of other longhorns so keep it in a large tank with some live rock for algae scraping. Maybe our fish is exceptional but we don t find any of those things to be true and believe me if a cowfish were going to die or nuke a tank it would have been this one over the last 2 weeks. They are omnivorous feeding upon benthic algae various microorganisms and foraminiferans that it strains from sediments sponges polychaete worms from sand flats mollusks small crustaceans and small fish able to feed on benthic invertebrates by blowing jets of water into the sandy substrate.
Use caution if placing the longhorn cowfish in a reef tank as it may nibble on tubeworms. When housed correctly the cowfish longhorn is long lived. When possible the longhorn cowfish should be the first fish introduced in the tank.
