So, I´m currently not home right now and have been gone for the past four months.
I talked to my dad last week who´s been taking care of my tank while I´m away and found some bad news.
I lost my golden clown knife that i´ve had for almost three years. He was around 17 or 18" the last time i measured him from the glass in January so I am assuming he was at least 19" when he had died.
I will upload some pictures of him that I took last year in Dec or i think it was this past January... can´t really remember.
This doesn´t have to do with knife fish, but i also lost my 7 or so juvenile vieja fasciatus that I have bred and raised till they were 2-3". They were beaten up to death one by one from the alpha personality black belt that I had bought. I actually bought two of them the same size as the rest of my juvenile cichlids, but now he´s the only one left.
Sadly, I don´t have pics of the dead fellas.
Now I´m stuck with a 120g with a male vieja fasciatus divided with a male flowerhorn. and a blackbelt in a 20g tall.
I also lost the female fasciatus cause the male kept on beating on her while I was away in school last fall. They had bred for me a numerous amounts of time around 8-10 and sadly I don´t have any of there fry because once I raise them to a good inch, I am away from home again and my dad takes over.
I´m not going to blame my dad, but honestly, if I was there, these problems probably wouldn´t have happened as I´ve experienced losing lots of fish throughout this hobby. I did lose lots of juvenile fasciatus myself during the summer and actually saved a lot too, by acting quickly and solving the problem. The female shouldnt have died because I would always divide the pair when I see her starting to get beat up, but I wasn´t there to see it happen and act to it.
Oh well I guess, I´ve lost thousands of dollars in this hobby and feel like I´m losing more as years go by. However, this is part of the hobby as I have learned a couple years ago.
Since I haven´t been too active I´m actually saving money and the stress that my dad probably has to go through.
Don´t know what I´ll do next, but my tanks are probably looking really empty right now as I can imagine.
I talked to my dad last week who´s been taking care of my tank while I´m away and found some bad news.
I lost my golden clown knife that i´ve had for almost three years. He was around 17 or 18" the last time i measured him from the glass in January so I am assuming he was at least 19" when he had died.
I will upload some pictures of him that I took last year in Dec or i think it was this past January... can´t really remember.
This doesn´t have to do with knife fish, but i also lost my 7 or so juvenile vieja fasciatus that I have bred and raised till they were 2-3". They were beaten up to death one by one from the alpha personality black belt that I had bought. I actually bought two of them the same size as the rest of my juvenile cichlids, but now he´s the only one left.
Sadly, I don´t have pics of the dead fellas.
Now I´m stuck with a 120g with a male vieja fasciatus divided with a male flowerhorn. and a blackbelt in a 20g tall.
I also lost the female fasciatus cause the male kept on beating on her while I was away in school last fall. They had bred for me a numerous amounts of time around 8-10 and sadly I don´t have any of there fry because once I raise them to a good inch, I am away from home again and my dad takes over.
I´m not going to blame my dad, but honestly, if I was there, these problems probably wouldn´t have happened as I´ve experienced losing lots of fish throughout this hobby. I did lose lots of juvenile fasciatus myself during the summer and actually saved a lot too, by acting quickly and solving the problem. The female shouldnt have died because I would always divide the pair when I see her starting to get beat up, but I wasn´t there to see it happen and act to it.
Oh well I guess, I´ve lost thousands of dollars in this hobby and feel like I´m losing more as years go by. However, this is part of the hobby as I have learned a couple years ago.
Since I haven´t been too active I´m actually saving money and the stress that my dad probably has to go through.
Don´t know what I´ll do next, but my tanks are probably looking really empty right now as I can imagine.
