Anyone ever kept a trumpetfish?

[Cuttlefish]

I caught a new local fish, this time a trumpetfish. Very cool fish but like the wild caught SeaHorses, I have a feeling this thing is gonna be a pain in the butt to get eating the more readily available foods. Im pretty positive it isnt gonna eat anything but live food until I can maybe soak some of that live food in extreme garlic for a while and then try soaking some frozen stuff in it. I can probably get it eating small feeder fish actually. It may turn out to be fairly easy to feed, like feeding a grouper.

Any advise on feeding trumpetfish? Cant seem to find much info about them on google.

[Reeftanker3295]

Dont really know but from its looks it seems like its a fish that chases live prey, id feed it chopped silversides or squid or something and if it wont eat that feed it live stuff like feeder fish until it learns to eat the chopped stuff. Whered you catch that guy? Going to shinnecock this weekend and wondering where to go to catch some cool fish

[Loverotties]

Yrs ago had one and I use to play the trumpet.I feed it live bine and slowly added stuff like reeftanker said.But he only lived two yrs. He also was caught in the wild.

[Cuttlefish]

niiice trumpetman is eating guppies. As soon as I dropped one in there he was on on it.. speared 'im within 5 seconds. So I guess as long has water quality remains good and these guppies provide good nutrition, looks like he's a keeper for a while. Hopefully years like yours rottie

Cool fish, Reeftanker i recommend you get yourself one for your native tank. Send me a PM if ya wanna know how n where i got mine. If I announce stuff like this to the whole net theres a chance the place would be overrun by freelance collectors. You know what im sayin

I actually wanna go diving at ponquogue bridge on the south shore. I hear its really some high quality diving, for any area of thw world. Apparently the current is so strong there you can only dive at slack tide or risk being spit out into the atlantic lol. So we're gonna go down there this weekend, equipped with snorkle, flippers, all that.. and a slurpgun! See if I can save me some tropicals before they get frozen by November. From what I hear you have to swim out to the columns of the old bridge at just the right time and hold on for dear life til slack tide comes. Then you have 45 mins to enjoy top notch diving. Should be fun and hopefully Ill see some tropicals.

[yvr]

I caught and kept a trumpet fish when lived on the Red Sea. Initially it ate small live fish, but i trained it to target feed on dead fish. I made a feeding stick using rigid airline tubing with a bent paperclip attached at the tip. In order to get it to feed on the dead food, I stopped feeding it live fish and it eventually became hungry enough to strike at the dead fish on the stick.

[Cuttlefish]

thats a good idea. I heard garlic helps alot with tranistioning from live to frozen food. Going to try gettin these guppies soaked in it, matter of fact ill eventually collect some live silversides, soak them in the stuff, then do it with the frozen silvers