Black ghost knifefish

I have my BGK with danios as well. Very small danios. So far, he has yet to even bother a single fish in my tank, though when any of them goes inside his hollow stump, they get kicked out promptly. He even does this rather gently. He doesn't even bite them or anything, just pushes them out with his head. He has done this to all my catfish, (banjos, cories and a synodontis). I keep him well fed on tubifex worms and other foodstuffs, so that might have something to do with it. That and he's only about 5 in long.:)
 
oh yeah almost forgot...

You can hand feed them. Mine did the first day I got him.

They're soooo cute:)
My girlfriend calls him the puppy dog fish:D
 
Mine was 4 inches when i got him so a he grew a good 3 inches over a year long period of time, yeah mine has a cliff that he chills in all day long,and its funny too,cause as soon as the lights go out all my fish go to the top of the tank for the whole night cause they when the lights are off its his time!i feed him flakes and blood worms everyday, occasionally he gets mealworms,fedder guppies, and ghost shrimp,he'll even take some shrimp pellets every once in a while.hes the best!much love
krucialkey560
 
I love my BGK, too!! Altho, he's never eaten from my hands...he's very skittish. He was about 3 inches when I got the little fella about 6 months ago and he's about 6 inches now. I feed mine blood worms, shrimp pellets and he helps clean the bottom of the tank of flakes. I just found out that he LOVES worms! I have some small European Night Crawlers for my Ray, and I thought I'd give one to my BGK. Boy, he sucks those babies right up!! He usually gets one of those a day now. :) As you all said before, he promptly chases out any fish that wanders into his "ghost house". Except for that darned snail! :) That snail comes thru whether he likes it or not! It's funny to see him kinda pushed up along the top of the tube as the snail creeps thru it! :D

I just noticed the other day that 2 of my 5 danios are missing from the tank...I wonder if he's the culprit?! They're kinda big for him to eat...Hmm...All but one neon is gone, too....Oh well. I won't be getting any more.

Beth
 
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