Leons' new friend!

[charles-n-charge]

So Leon the toadfish is now around 6" long and is extremely fat and active. He's in a full marine 30g tank all by himself and has been for awhile. But today when I was at my lfs, I noticed they accidentally got two orange toadfish in. So I ended up picking one of them up for $24, which I felt was a really good deal.
And now he's in the tank with Leon, and hopefully they'll get along. The new guy is only about 3.5-4" long though, so I'm a little worried about him. But I think it'll work out fine. So here's some pics of Leon and Tigre (the new guy)



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[alexanian]

Awesome! Leon has company! Congrats

 

[pudgeking]

that's really cool! I would love to have a marine tank with various batrachoids. I hope they get along well!

 

[kevinfleming21]

I have never kept this species, but I hope it works out well...very cool!

 

[charles-n-charge]

Thanks guys!
Tigre surprisingly is a very aggressive eater... It took me days to get Leon to eat when I first got him, but Tigre ate a piece of shrimp from my hand the moment I put it in front of him lol
And I'm planning on doing semi-aggressive marine fish in this tank now. Originally it was going to be a brackish tank just for Leon, but I had to bring up the salinity to marine levels yesterday because apparently orange toadfish can't live in brackish water... Bummer.
But I'm trying to decide what to do in this tank now. I'm wanting to keep the stock pretty low.
I'm thinking about doing another snowflake eel but idk if 30g is enough for one, and I'm also thinking of a dwarf lionfish.
Any ideas?

 

[pudgeking]

If you could find a frogfish/anglerfish big enough to not get eaten by the toadfish, that would be pretty cool imo, but I couldn't say if that is practicable or not. A young snowflake eel might be ok in the 30g, but not for life. Snowflake morays grow pretty large I think.

 

[Lambrakopoulos]

Leon in the first picture: "wtf is this guy doing in my tank!?"

 

[charles-n-charge]

If you could find a frogfish/anglerfish big enough to not get eaten by the toadfish, that would be pretty cool imo, but I couldn't say if that is practicable or not. A young snowflake eel might be ok in the 30g, but not for life. Snowflake morays grow pretty large I think.

I'm planning on converting my 220 to saltwater within the next year... That should do it!
And they get anywhere from 18-30" I believe

 

[Leptoe]

Awesome looking fish!!!

 

[benmcfadden]

nice dude, never seen one of those near me before.