Well the ropefish did not take the transfer from the store to my tank so well. at the store it had just recovered from a killer ick attack and it was a point of concern to think of. The fish guy at the store and I thought I would be able to get it back to health and it would stand a better chance here than at the pet store. So saddly the ropefish passed. I really hate it when that happens
Well, my fear of what jennifer meant when she took that feeder fish and broke it's back and spit it out in front of the arowana showed up over the past week and a half. It started with the arow showing some fin split on the bottom, I thought could be stress of being in a new tank, new tankmates but I will watch clearly for agression.
When I was in on sat. the fins showed a bit more split. And that means bad water or agression in my books and since the water comes out as fin I go with agression, so I spent a good amount of time watchin the tank.
I figured I would chance it and leave the arow there till tonight since there was a good amount of feeders in the tank. Well I went tonight to add some more feeders and check on the fish room tanks to see if the feeders I had left in them survived. All looked good so I netted them out and added them to the ones that I was bringing to put in the display tank, then I added some of the minnow colony to the holding tanks. Will see if its all good to go for a weekend install of the molly, platty and minnow colonies.
Then the trip to the main tank all the while I am hoping that I did not assign my arow that I have grown from a wee 2 incher to a nasty beating from jennifer. Sure enough when I got to the tank the aro is definitely showing much more signs of getting bullied even to the point that it has a strike on its back, thankfully it was fast enough over the weekend to escape death an destruction.
I netted it out and told it how sorry I was that I had put it in danger, here is a couple of shots of it
None of the other fish in the tank with jennifer show any signs of abuse or hassle, and I figured as much that jennifer would take great exception to another surface predator or even something as simple as different hunting styles. Since the gar is side swipe and the aro is a lunge it might be something like the aro getting in the way of a fish that the gar is hunting or worse the aro thinking it can try to steal prey out of jennifers mouth after she caught a fish, because that is what the aro tried to do to my spotted gars here.
pictures of the fish room colony will come next update
