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Originally Posted by labrown  Wow, that's some serious hard work. I love fish stores because they are almost always locally owned shops with passionate hobbyists at the helm. Sounds like you have a good one there! It is definitely my hobby, my BF won't take the time to do the research, and you can't do anything in this hobby without first knowing what you're up to!! We used to have a lot of bright little fish, but decided to switch to a mini predator tank recently. We have a dwarf lion that is the NEATEST fish to watch. He is pretty smart and SO beautiful when he fans out his fins. And we have a snowflake eel that is such a dunce! He is an escape artist too! Ugh, I could tell you stories! but feeding time is AWESOME because they only get fed every few days and they get to worked up about eating! With a tank that big, you basically have to have a water treatment system for water changes in your home! I can't imagine the time it takes him when he starts working on it! And I also can't imagine what kind of filtration system you have on that huge tank! TOO COOL! |
LOL! We used to have a snowflake eel in our 135-gallon tank, but then he just disappeared one day
. We were very confused because he was much too big to be completely eaten with no trace (we have a semi-aggressive tank) in the amount of time since we'd last seen him, but we figured that must've been what happened. Well, when we moved the 135-gallon tank out from the wall in preparation to upgrade to the 240-gallon, we found the eel...solid as a rock on the carpet behind the tank. Apparently he thought he could live OUTSIDE the water
. He was wrong
!!!
On that subject, our vlamingi (the huge one that died in the 2nd move) also tried to commit suicide one day. My hubby and I were watching a movie and heard this loud "thud". We turned to look at each other, but we didn't hear anything else, so we went on with the movie. Then a few seconds later, we started hearing all this flopping. By the time my hubby got to the vlamingi and got him back in the tank, he was bleeding from several spots on his body, and we thought he'd be dead by the next day. Amazingly, he went on to live for over a year after that before he died in this latest move. That's one reason I was so upset that of all the fish for them to kill, it had been HIM!
I do like lion fish (beautiful), but we've only ever had one small one (so he didn't eat everything in our tank), and he didn't last long. I tell you though...this hobby makes scuba diving and snorkeling much more interesting since you can actually identify all the fish you see. And I love going to the aquarium now. It means so much more when you know what you're looking at
!