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Jan 23, 2005 10:56:06 GMT -5
Post by Chez on Jan 23, 2005 10:56:06 GMT -5
does this happen to anyone? you get a nice big bag of feeders, toss em in the tank. after the turts are done rippin em to shreds, they'll leave like a random 2 or 3 fish in there for weeks.. i don't know why mine do this.. maybe they want pets? lol :Chez
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Jan 27, 2005 8:56:15 GMT -5
Post by csurfleet on Jan 27, 2005 8:56:15 GMT -5
I know that when they are younger turtles are more selective about the fish they eat, I don't know what is is exactly that puts them off certain fish. I had 3 red-mouth cichlids in the tank with the Yellowbelly and softie. They both displayed exactly the same behaviour. You can tell the difference between red-mouths by the markings on their sides. Both turtles would chase one of the fish when he came near, but completely ignored the other two. After about 2 months it got caught and eaten (they are FAST so it could usually get away easily), and neither turtle has shown any sign of going for the other two. Nutter used to be like that when I first got him, but as he got older he got less selective about what he ate, and now you can't put anything in there without it being dead in under a minute. I think this is a case for watching your turtles behaviour carefully as they age, as they might start to show violent behaviour towards each other as they get older. Don't just decide they are friends and stop observing.
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Jan 27, 2005 10:12:34 GMT -5
Post by Chez on Jan 27, 2005 10:12:34 GMT -5
look whos feeling well enough to rejoin us ;D
Tell me about it, if they decide one day that they want to make lunch out of eachother, I have a backup tank ready thank God lol. :chez
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Feb 3, 2005 13:18:40 GMT -5
Post by touie on Feb 3, 2005 13:18:40 GMT -5
I put 20 big fat shrimps in the tank the other day in the hope that they'd eat them gradually (my turtles are still quite little!) but it turned into a bit of a massacre, after 10 mins there was not one left alive! and after 20 mins no traces left at all!
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Feb 3, 2005 14:37:57 GMT -5
Post by Jinx on Feb 3, 2005 14:37:57 GMT -5
When Ben was on his own (lives with four large fish now), he slaughtered anything colourful; didnt matter if it was goldfish, neons, guppies, blue crayfish, snakehead ... greeny natural coloured fish were always left alone. Oh and anything with whiskers is always eatten too. Size was never an issue either.
Dips is the baby at almost 5yrs old and he is so stinky picky about what goes into his mouth, I have yet to see any rhyme or reason to his selection process.
He does live and always has lived with a firemouth cichlid ... they fight and play, but rarely any real damage to the fish.
Jinx
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Post by csurfleet on Feb 4, 2005 8:24:18 GMT -5
I love firemouths, one day I'm going to breed them, to see the parenting behaviour (obviously seperate from the turts), chichlids in general are my favourite fish, you can really see the intelligence in a lot of them.
Slightly off topic there...
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Feb 4, 2005 15:02:09 GMT -5
Post by Chez on Feb 4, 2005 15:02:09 GMT -5
That's true, about seeing intelligence in them. At petsmart, there was an isolation tank for sick fish in the back, and there was this rainbow cichlid that kept bringing this betta that just lay at the floor of the tank to the surface to breathe.. it was amazing. And the looks that you get from some cichlids, too...
Then on the other hand, I guess they think it's a smart move to leap from the tanks and plunge to their doom. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the petsmart I worked in had a filtration unit that could only adequately filter 500g's.. when they had 1500. So many fish die needlessly at that store.. :Chez
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Post by csurfleet on Feb 8, 2005 7:28:49 GMT -5
I used to have an Oscar called Ivan The Terrible, who I'd trained to swim through hoops, he was nearly at the point where I could pull the ring out of the water so he had to leap through it. Sadly he died before I got him to there though
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