Do you sometimes think you have NO idea what is going on?

[hollyfish2000]

I was about to post that I was going to need a boy keyhole shortly as the lovely female I got from Arlene (thank you!!!!) was doing great but my existing boy (who was missing when I got home after a week business trip and once found was still hiding in the back) was ailing. But before I sent that, I looked over at the tank to see the two of them chasing each other and doing the lovey lovey dance. WTH? One minute he's almost dead and the next he's considering how to perpetuate the species? Now that I think about it, one of my rainbows did that, too. Went from resting on the bottom (and me trying to "rescue" him) to breeding.

Meanwhile my little group of 6 white cloud thingees are now down to 5 and acting VERY skittish. Uh on. Did someone get eaten.

I've clearly lost control of this tank!!

 

[Avatar]

Losing what?

Not like a pony is it?

 

[zackcrack00]

It's okay! You're not alone! I got back from vacation and my plants were almost all dead, my neons were missing two school members, and my platys were SUPER fat! (Hmmmm... wonder what happened to my neons!!!) And then, I realized my breeder jet has a small hole in it, and about 5 krib fry got out. I was considering leaving the hobby until I looked over and my little Platy fry were peacefully swimming around their little five gallon, oblivious to EVERYTHING.

 

[mchambers]

Isn't that the way it always is? At least Holly's fish are thinking about breeding.

I moved some fish this weekend, moving two Electric Blue Rams into a 20L, from a 29, and moving 7 juvenile German Blue Rams into the 29. I thought the juveniles needed more room. Also, the Electric Blues hadn't laid eggs for a while, so I thought they might be finished breeding.

Of course, the Electric Blues laid eggs last night. Given past history, I doubt I'll see free swimmers, but there's a chance.

So, I never think I have control over my tanks.

 

[Becca]

Guess he was just playing hard to get!

If it makes you feel any better, the brown spike-tail paradise fish I've had in my office for 5 months, the sole survivor or whatever plague blighted my other office fish, JUMPED into the trashcan shortly after I left work on Friday. I found him mummified yesterday. Months of living in his glass pond never doing much more than hovering mid-level and glaring at me, and he jumps.

 

[hollyfish2000]

Wow, jumping into the trash can just to save you the trouble???

Well, actually, I do think the boy is ailing. He is hiding in the back still. The girl will come out periodically and looks fine.

I'm wondering if there aren't enough dithers for them to feel comfortable? there sure are enough rocks and wood and plants.

And the hiding little white cloudy thing re-emerged, so no one got et.

 

[jonclark96]

Keyholes are pretty timid fish in my experience. I've never seen one that was out an about, begging for food like most of my New World cichlids.

 

[Becca]

Wow, jumping into the trash can just to save you the trouble???

Yeah, at least he was considerate. It was the LAST place I looked when I couldn't find him - really, what are the odds? After searching the floor, desk, etc. I decided he was probably just hiding so craftily that I couldn't see him. Then, I noticed that the giant bubble nest he usually builds over the weekend was nowhere in sight and it dawned on me.

 

[scientist0724]

Keyholes are pretty timid fish in my experience. I've never seen one that was out an about, begging for food like most of my New World cichlids.

Really??? Hmmm...the pair that I got from you love it when I stand in front of their tank, just as long as I don't make too much of a sudden movement! They are quite the little piggies as they like to go to the front of the tank and do a little dance for me to let me know that they want food.

Arlene

 

[jonclark96]

Maybe it was because they were at the bottom of the totem pole in my tank. I've never kept them as the primary species in a tank...

 

[hollyfish2000]

Arlene's girl (who was originally Jon's girl) comes to the glass to stare at me and follows me as I walk around the tank. I :wub: her. Boy is still ailing, tho . .

 

[scientist0724]

Arlene's girl (who was originally Jon's girl) comes to the glass to stare at me and follows me as I walk around the tank. I :wub: her. Boy is still ailing, tho . .

The girl I gave you is from someone in Southern VA that shipped them to Sam, who in turn delivered her to me.

I still have Jon's girl because they were the ones who bonded.

I'm happy to hear that Holly's girl is not shy. She would come to the front of the tank during feeding time, but my pair kept her hiding in a huge mass of Java fern. I'm glad that she is now free to roam her tank!

Arlene

 

[hollyfish2000]

Oh, got it. She is so interesting. She gets a "beard" when she's chasing the boy around. I assume that's mating behavior thing.

 

[AquaStudent]

Sometimes I think the only one better at disappearing than Houdini is a fish. They have a very finite area to hide in and yet they can usually find a way to make the improbable happen.

That's a real bummer about the paradise fish.

About a year and a half ago my dad was growing out a Jack D. The tank was in my room in the basement. I went to bed that first night and woke up at 430 to go to my first day of work. I looked in teh tank and didn't see him. I was confused because there wasn't a lot of decoration in the tank and there really wasn't any gap in the lid. Well I looked under the dresser and saw a little shadow of a lump. I used the water change tubing to scoop it out and sure enough it was mummified him. He found a way to jump out of a gap that was smaller than he was...

 

[zackcrack00]

I haven't had any jumpers.... YET!

 

[JLW]

Hmmm, I think you have a fish that's faking it for sympathy, and then taking full advantage. "I'm so sick, I'm lying on the bottom, oh no... don't you pity me? Yea, well, how about spawning?"

 

[zackcrack00]

Hahaha. That's my male Krib, too, Josh!