AW: A. Geryi - Shyness

["Erik Pfingstner" <erikpfingstner at freenet_de>]

Hi,

I have a odd experience on that topic: in one of my tanks (40 gals) which I
mainly use to raise juvenile killies, all killies except N.whitei are shy.
This tank is pretty low (knee hight) and is located so that when I go into
the room, I walk straight towards the tank.

The same fish, once moved into another tank always got rid of their shyness.

Erik


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-killietalk at AKA_Org [mailto:owner-killietalk at AKA_Org]Im
> Auftrag von Serkan Alasya
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Dezember 2002 06:15
> An: KillieTalk at AKA_Org
> Betreff: RE: A. Geryi - Shyness
>
>
>
> I find a lot of new species I acquire show different levels of 'shyness'
> and most in time get used to ones personal care schedule. I find feeding
> the fish always from the same corner every time aids in getting the fish
> used to my schedule.
>
> Recently (4 months ago now) I acquired 18 normani lampeyes and placed
> them in a fish tank of their own on my bottom rack. As most will say
> bottom rack is the worst for skittish fish. Anyway first few weeks they
> all hid behind and in amongst the big mat of java moss at the back of
> the tank and only to ventured out after I dropped in food and moved away
> from the tank (or sat there without blinking for minutes at a time!!!).
> Though now every single one of them swim to the front of the tank every
> time there is movement out side of the tanks.
>
> I find majority of killifish get used to movement outside. By the way I
> do impose on all my killifish intended and sometimes unintended fasting
> days so they are always ready for a feed, egg production is very good
> too. I also tend to not move my fish around a lot so there is minimal
> chasing them around with my net, therefore giving them nothing to be
> scared about. It helps a lot when I need to catch them since they almost
> swim into the net thinking there might be food in it!!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Serkan
>
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