Re: [Killietalk] Blue gularis ARRRRGH

["George & Melanie Caruso" <caraway1 at centurytel_net>]

If you guys are able to feed your fish three times a day you are doing good! 
I often have to scramble to get into the fish room at least once to feed the 
spawning and grow-out tanks and also feed brineshrimp to the fry.  Maybe I 
am still not really retired!
George
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "karl doering" <kilikarl at bignet_net>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Blue gularis ARRRRGH


> 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"
> <killietalk at aka_org>
> 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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