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A real disaster occured
in my tank housing the gularis cross I made (Ed Millers big
blues X German Dwarf red). I noticed the water was a little cloudy
- unheard of in that tank and that I hadn't seen the good big male
for a while. I found him stuck in the 1" diameter airlift tube
from the under gravel filter. Not only that, I found three of them
in there all stuck together.
Sometimes I swear sjoestedti is the stupidest thing on the planet.
They'll eat plants, discover they don't taste very good and spit
them out, perhaps they know they can't digest them. Then they'll
do it again. I've lost one because it swam under a sponge filter;
this is the only species I've lost that way. I've never had any
other fish swim down the airlift; Brian Reid had this happen to
him as well.
So I just bought some endcap thingies to cover the tubes so
the morons cant swim out.
The other fish that ate it in this accident was the only
dwarf red gularis I had, which I suppose is replacable with
some effort, a female, which was okay, I have plenty of those,
but the big male was the only male in the bunch that had
huge fins and the ``bell shaped'' tail. I'll have to start
from scratch and make the cross again.
Richard Sexton Jan 17 1990
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