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- From: brunner@crchh447.bnr.ca (James Brunner)
- Subject: Re: (F) [F] Severums in a community?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:28:54 GMT
- Reply-To: brunner@crchh447.bnr.ca (James Brunner)
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- I have had a green severum for 3-4 years. I got it when it was the size of
- a nickel. It's now 7 to 8 inches long, 4 to 5 inches tall and about an inch
- and a half "thick".
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- I would certainly say that 2 in a 30 gallon is too much. I have one in a
- 26 and he seems to be doing OK, but at it's current size, I think it's
- getting too big.
-
- I have not noticed much agression out of this fish (although I wouldn't
- trust it with something bite size). I have it with a LARGE black ghost
- and a rope fish (odd combination huh). The black ghost chases it around
- quite a bit and the severum never seems to fight back. I kept a buenas aires
- tetra with this combo for quite a while before he "disapeared" (but I'd lay
- money that it was the ghost, not the severum). The most violent the severum
- seems to get is that he loves to butt heads with himself in the mirrored back
- of the tank.
-
- This is (in my experience) a very hardy fish. It loves duro-min and can
- easily be trained to take it from your hand. I used to have mine jump 1 to
- 2 inches from the water to take it from my hand. Now he eats from my hand
- but I don't make him jump (don't want to soak the carpet).
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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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