Re: [Killietalk] Blue gularis ARRRRGH

["karl doering" <kilikarl at bignet_net>]

One of the problems with blue gularis is we dont feed them enough. & when a 
fish is hungry it get nasty. Feed them 3 time a day & there temperament will 
change. Try it
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Clark" <mike_gm6ofo at talk21.com>
To: <ken_combs at sbcglobal.net>; "killifish discussion list" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Blue gularis ARRRRGH


> Hi Ken,
>   Now you have found out why they are nasty bad tempered sods, it`s the 
> LAST thing that is done after separating them is to put them all back 
> together. If your lucky you may finish with one out of a tank full , looks 
> like you found this out the hard way, most of their related species are 
> the same. Big bad tempered and ugly but I still keep them.
>
>  Mike
>
> Ken <ken_combs at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>  This is easily the most frustrating killie...
> I isolated 3 nice 1" fry in the hopes they might be males and I could get
> some nice finnage for a shot at a "Show specimen"
> ...turns out they were just fast growing girls, so I placed the now 3" 
> fish
> back with the original group...my thinking being, they should hold their 
> own
> since these fish were slightly larger and sturdier after being pampered in
> isolation
>
> Big mistake!!! I witnessed the oddest behavior I had ever seen in a group 
> of
> fish...the entire group descended upon the newcomers like a pack of
> piranhas...it was an odd site watching 10 fish coordinating their attack
> upon one "new" fish after the other...
>
> I fed the tank daphnia figuring the live food would offer a distraction, 
> but
> no...I come back 30 minutes later only to find 3 "skulls", no bodies, and 
> a
> tank full of fat gularis
>
> Now I have witness a small "disturbance" in some other types of
> fundulopanchax when you remove a pair or so...and I have seen 
> "non-related"
> males squabble...but I never imagined a group of fish could immediately 
> spot
> a newcomer so quickly, let alone proceed to single-mindedly disembowel 
> them
> with such "purpose"....this was darn odd, darn odd
>
> BTW, anyone interested, I have a couple pairs available ...this
> is a pretty decent looking (but aggressive) strain if I say so myself
>
> KC
>
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