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Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov

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So I came home tonight and couldn't see one of my wolf fish. Not just one of my wolf fish, my absolute favorite all time fish that I've ever had the privilage of owning. The one that really solidified my love of the hobby.

I didn't think too much of it at first, because it's the only fish in the tank with a very large mat of floating plastic plants. I grew quite concerned though, when I couldn't locate it after probing through the mat. Escape was far from my mind as the lids were all closed and everything around the tank tidy and dry.

When I finally located her, it was under my bed, limp, soft and dark eyed...covered in dust and fuzz. I immediately returned her to the tank, removed what debris I could and placed her in the flow of the filters. Bubbles exited her gill plate as she sank. I placed heavy weights on the lids.

She's breathing, slow and laboured, on her side on the tank bottom. I've read that wolf fish are somewhat resilient in cases of out-of-tank wandering, but she took a 5 1/2 foot fall onto a concrete floor and layed there for I don't know how long. I'll have to see what the morning brings.


I had picked three wolves up about 2 1/2 years ago for a 75g tank. She eventually came to dwarf her two tankmates. Very attractive shape as well, more robust than the other two, and the three of them always got along but not without slight conflict (the two smaller ones in the 75g do show some superficial physical signs of her dominance).

Only recently I obtained a larger tank, and in order to give her more swimming room as she grew and to give the other two a break, I transferred her to her own cycled 210g a mere 2 days ago. Obviously things have not gone well thus far. She never jumped before, and I only wonder if the glass lids of her new home had some part to play.
 
I hope she pulls through let us know how she goes.Off topic but can you put other fish like cichlids in with your wolf fish, just interested to know.
 
Wow, thats too bad, hope it works out... So she actually lifted the tank lid to jump out? How big is she? I know a friend of mine has to keep a couple of small bricks on the top of their tank to keep their jag. cichlids in. Have to go do a search, I'm not familiar with these guys.
 
Thanks, guys. She has since righted herself and moved to another area of the tank. She's still looking rather peaked, but apparantly their reputation of surviving out-of-water excursions better than many fish has some merit to it.

That thread is indeed interesting, I do not believe that I've seen it before. Lot's of very cool photos.

As far as compatibility goes, the only tankmates that they've had have eventually become food items. However, the only cichlid that they've encountered under my care were some convicts that were quickly devoured. When they were smaller, I kept them with a pike characin. At the time the pike was larger than the wolves, but they ate it as well.
Their aggressive nature differs from the few SA cichlids that I've kept (red pike cichlids and convicts) in that the wolves had no discernable interest in establishing territories, but rather viewed anything that moved as a potential prey item, even fish too large to swallow.

The tank is going to have some serious weight on top, from now on.
 
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