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- From: brunner@crchh447.bnr.ca (James Brunner)
- Subject: Re: [F] Black Ghost Knife
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:17:05 GMT
- Reply-To: brunner@crchh447.bnr.ca (James Brunner)
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- In article <1993Jan24.032553.15169@socrates.umd.edu>, rocky@socrates.umd.edu (Rocky Giannini) writes:
- |> Help!
- |>
- |> I purchased a black ghost knife a week ago, and I don't think
- |> that he's doing very well. He's swimming *sideways*, much to
- |> my distress. The water in the tank tests okay, and all the
-
- Black ghosts are supposed to swim sideways. In fact, they swim quite well
- in almost ANY orientation (upside down, backwards, etc).
-
- |> other fish are fine. I have yet to see him eat, although
- |> I've been offering bloodworms, brine shrimp and flakes. He
- |> does, however come out of his tube, and nose around in the gravel.
- |> I saw him suck up a couple tubifex (I tried feeding those, too)
- |> but I'm not sure if they were actually ingested, or just spit
- |> out when I wasn't looking. One interesting aside, one of
-
- I wouldn't worry. My ghost goes through "spells" where it doesn't eat
- anything noticable for months at a time. Other times it eats voraciously
- up to 5 duro-min sticks twice per day.
-
- |> the people at the store I purchased the knife from said
- |> to feed it guppies, which I thought was odd, cos' the knife
- |> has a teeny tiny mouth. Any info would be greatly appreciated
-
- Tiny mouth HA HA HA. That "tiny mouth" can open to almost 180 degrees!
- It can easily eat guppies. I watched mine hunt down and kill a glass knife
- that was fairly good sized, much larger than a guppy!
-
- |> because it really is a cool fish, and I'd be kinda bummed if
- |> it died. Thanks in advance!
-
- I used to feed mine frozen chunks of brine shrimp. I hand-feed it mostly
- duro-min now, but dried bloodworms (in chunks) on occasion. If you're
- really worried, I'd try the frozen brine shrimp, but remember DON'T OVERFEED.
- It'll eat when it's ready.
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- Jim Brunner - (brunner@bnr.ca)
- All opinions are my own and have nothing whatsoever to do with BNR, NT,
- NTI, Bell Canada, or any of the BCE corporations or affiliates.
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