Has anyone ever kept this???

[Elbling0]

I love the Lutjanus genus and currently own 2 types.
Just wondering if anyone has kept Lutjanus Apodus before? They are a beautiful fish and look like a gold Mangrove Jack (Lutjanus Argentimaculatus)

Link to the fish
http://www.ryanphotographic.com/lutjanidae.htm

 

[Elbling0]

Anybody?

 

[aussiemonsters]

Got a pic of your other Lutjanid Elbling0
L. fulvus is the only brackish Lutjanid we have.

 

[Oddball]

I've never kept L. apodus since, to me, it's too plain looking. I've kept Lutjanus argentimaculatus, L. sebae, and L. coeruleolineatus.

 

[Elbling0]

I've never kept L. apodus since, to me, it's too plain looking. I've kept Lutjanus argentimaculatus, L. sebae, and L. coeruleolineatus

what was Sebae and Coerul behaviour and feeding like? Much like Argentimaculatus?

Got a pic of your other Lutjanid Elbling0
L. fulvus is the only brackish Lutjanid we have.

I'm keeping Lutjanus russeli at the moment. I'll try and get a pic soon.

 

[Oddball]

Both were quick lunge feeders. The sebae a bit more so. The sebae didn't like tankmates so, I kept him in a single-specimen 350gal tank. The coeruleolineatus occassionally snapped at each other but, preferred to shoal. I kept 6 in a 300gal.

 

[Elbling0]

Both were quick lunge feeders. The sebae a bit more so. The sebae didn't like tankmates so, I kept him in a single-specimen 350gal tank. The coeruleolineatus occassionally snapped at each other but, preferred to shoal. I kept 6 in a 300gal.

Awesome! i'm guessing you had them all full marine?
What did they feed on?

 

[Oddball]

Yep, full marine. The ate anything meaty and were fed huge amounts of live herring and glass shrimp (I used to live on the beach and work by piers (USN) and net-casted the live foods on my way home from work).

 

[Elbling0]

Yep, full marine. The ate anything meaty and were fed huge amounts of live herring and glass shrimp (I used to live on the beach and work by piers (USN) and net-casted the live foods on my way home from work).

Nice!! I'm also interested in how much you paid for your argentimaculatus, how long you had it, water conditions and what you fed?

 

[Oddball]

Don't remember what I paid for the mangrove. That was over 30 years ago. Kept him in heavy brackish conditions, high pH, and 78-82F. Had him for nearly 4 years before I received orders to anothre state and had to sell him. He was around 20" when he left. He fed on ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, earthworms, dwarf crayfish, live shiners, and live herring. He ate feeder goldfish sporadically when I couldn't net live bait fish.