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Very Mean Fish Stories! (We are talking about bad eggs not mean |
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By: Bilbo Baggins Date: September 28, 2014, 12:27 pm |
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Well my very mean fish story comes from my very first tank. It |
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was a 5 US gallon tank (23 litres) and in it I had two Zebra |
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Danios among other fish. One day a Zebra Danio jumped out of the |
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tank and fell probably 40 times his length onto the floor. |
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Somehow he survived and I quickly picked him up and threw him |
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back into the tank. Well that changed him because from that day |
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on he grew and grew and grew. I don't know how but he grew to |
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about 3 inches long and about half an inch thick. He would spend |
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all day swimming up and down the tank snapping out at anyone who |
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got too close. Eventually fish started getting wounds and then |
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started dying. I looked for any fish shop to take him but when |
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they saw him they wouldn't take him because he was probably four |
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or five times the size of the ones they had. Finally I offloaded |
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him to a shop and have had a happy tank since. Hopefully he got |
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a massive tank with loads of bigger fish who would show him who |
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is the boss. Hopefully. |
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Re: Very Mean Fish Stories! (We are talking about bad eggs not m |
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ean species). |
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By: Jennifer Date: September 28, 2014, 12:47 pm |
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The only real rogue I've ever owned was an Angelfish. He was |
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just mean. I had him in a 55, initially I'd gotten him with |
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some other Angels but he wound up killing all his buddies and |
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would go after my rummy nose tetras. There were quite a few |
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tetras though, and their shoaling really confused the Angel so, |
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no deaths but a lot of chasing. I've never had an Angel that |
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aggressive since then, but he did have a foul disposition. |
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Almost turned me off on Angels entirely. |
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Re: Very Mean Fish Stories! (We are talking about bad eggs not m |
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ean species). |
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By: probn Date: September 28, 2014, 8:51 pm |
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Pleco in my tank is like that he chases all other big tankmates |
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in the tank |
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So I am going to sell him in about a week |
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Re: Very Mean Fish Stories! (We are talking about bad eggs not m |
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ean species). |
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By: Stu4648 Date: September 29, 2014, 2:03 am |
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My Red Tail Black Shark is pretty mean although to be fair I |
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have not heard of too many RTBSs that are not. So far she has |
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managed to stunt a Tiger Barb, harassed all his mates. She got |
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moved out of that tank shortly after and now regularly gets into |
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altercations with several eartheaters instead. Luckily though |
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they pretty much ignore her or can hold their own if she is in a |
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particularly annoying mood. The only fish she does not bother is |
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my big male bristlenose pleco. She tried it once but next |
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morning she had a big circular rasp mark on her side and |
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strangely enough has not bothered him since. So credit were |
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credit is due, she is smart enough to know what battles are |
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worth fighting and when to not push her luck. |
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