Hi everyone, this is my first post!
So I'm not new to fish, I have seven tanks and lots of fish. My fiancé rang me and said his friend needed rid of his 200 litre/50 gallon tank. I went down to see it, and saw it had this shark that is probably just under a foot long, a few clown loaches, hoplo catfish and a small pleco, I'm pretty sure a bulldog pleco, who's now in my 30 G. The shark was just so stressed out. His nose was all raw and red from bashing around and he just spent the whole time in a constant state of panic. As soon as I saw him I knew I wasn't leaving him there to get sold on, as he would of probably lived the rest of his life in that tiny tank.
I moved my goldfish out of my 120 gallon, they went in the 50 and all the new guys went in the big tank (which I know is nowhere near big enough, but better than what he had)
so my main question is, this fish is at the very least 5 years old, the people we bought him from had him for at least four and a half years, and they bought the whole set up with him in so I'm not sure how old he is. He has been surviving on two bloodworms once a day. He is like a rake. I'm guessing he is this small due to malnutrition and the cramped tank?
He is much happier, much less stressed and has stopped crashing into the sides of the tank like he was in his old home. At the minute I can't get him to eat anything other than prawns :/ which I can see getting expensive but I've tried him with every other type of food I have, which is a lot of different varieties shapes and sizes, frozen, pellets, flakes, wafers all different sizes and he's interested in nothing but prawns... But anyway I'm rabbiting on now!
Shall I expect some more growth, or is his stunting so severe this will be a permanent thing? I'm not used to these huge monster fish!
So I'm not new to fish, I have seven tanks and lots of fish. My fiancé rang me and said his friend needed rid of his 200 litre/50 gallon tank. I went down to see it, and saw it had this shark that is probably just under a foot long, a few clown loaches, hoplo catfish and a small pleco, I'm pretty sure a bulldog pleco, who's now in my 30 G. The shark was just so stressed out. His nose was all raw and red from bashing around and he just spent the whole time in a constant state of panic. As soon as I saw him I knew I wasn't leaving him there to get sold on, as he would of probably lived the rest of his life in that tiny tank.
I moved my goldfish out of my 120 gallon, they went in the 50 and all the new guys went in the big tank (which I know is nowhere near big enough, but better than what he had)
so my main question is, this fish is at the very least 5 years old, the people we bought him from had him for at least four and a half years, and they bought the whole set up with him in so I'm not sure how old he is. He has been surviving on two bloodworms once a day. He is like a rake. I'm guessing he is this small due to malnutrition and the cramped tank?
He is much happier, much less stressed and has stopped crashing into the sides of the tank like he was in his old home. At the minute I can't get him to eat anything other than prawns :/ which I can see getting expensive but I've tried him with every other type of food I have, which is a lot of different varieties shapes and sizes, frozen, pellets, flakes, wafers all different sizes and he's interested in nothing but prawns... But anyway I'm rabbiting on now!
Shall I expect some more growth, or is his stunting so severe this will be a permanent thing? I'm not used to these huge monster fish!
