Re: [Killietalk] Blue gularis ARRRRGH

["karl doering" <kilikarl at bignet_net>]

George  the fish can't make noise when there hungry. but if your wife only 
fed you once a day I'm sure we would hear you??
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George & Melanie Caruso" <caraway1 at centurytel_net>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Blue gularis ARRRRGH


> 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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