Not a question, just a bit of a rant.
I've heard all about BGKs eating small tankmates. There were accounts of both hyper-aggressive and pacifist BGKs. I wanted to introduce a 4+ inch BGK to a community setup, so to test it, I took a galaxy rasbora (the lone survivor of my dad's 10g shrimp tank) and plopped him inside my BGK's transparent hideout tube. I then plugged the two sides. There was no where for it to run.
(Hey look, I'd rather chance losing one cheap fish than a bunch of less cheap fish in one night so don't bash me for cruelty, I didn't want to.)
I watched as the BGK miss strike after strike even when the tiny thing would swim right in front of its mouth. I released the rasbora, and the BGK went into the community setup without an incident since.
With accuracy that bad, how are people having missing fish? My only explanation is that mine is simply a sucker. He is a high fin BGK, maybe the dorsal fin effects his senses (I know the electroreceptors are in the side)
He also makes clicking sounds when he eats larger foods such as algae wafers or earthworms, kind of like clown loaches. That he likes scraping away at algae wafers more than eating his pellets is weird enough, but the noises led me to discover they do actually have teeth unlike what some people claim.
They're considered fairly smart, but mine seems dumber than the goldfish I've had years ago. They would at least remember who feeds them when, even if left alone for weeks (vacation). BGKs are nearly blind though, so I instead trained mine to come out to feed with a flashlight. This routine continued for months, but then I skipped out on feeding for 2-3 days since he was getting picky and he completely forgot how to find his freaking food when I turned on the flashlight. Months later and he still gets spooked by the sound of the kids running upstairs, or even a footstep that just didn't sound right.
He's an idiot but he's a beautiful idiot.
Anyone else with weird accounts of their BGKs?
TL;DR, BGK can't catch a fish the size of his eyeball, addicted to algae wafers, makes noises when eating, really freaking stupid, afraid of nothing in the tank but deathly afraid of everything outside the tank.
I've heard all about BGKs eating small tankmates. There were accounts of both hyper-aggressive and pacifist BGKs. I wanted to introduce a 4+ inch BGK to a community setup, so to test it, I took a galaxy rasbora (the lone survivor of my dad's 10g shrimp tank) and plopped him inside my BGK's transparent hideout tube. I then plugged the two sides. There was no where for it to run.
(Hey look, I'd rather chance losing one cheap fish than a bunch of less cheap fish in one night so don't bash me for cruelty, I didn't want to.)
I watched as the BGK miss strike after strike even when the tiny thing would swim right in front of its mouth. I released the rasbora, and the BGK went into the community setup without an incident since.
With accuracy that bad, how are people having missing fish? My only explanation is that mine is simply a sucker. He is a high fin BGK, maybe the dorsal fin effects his senses (I know the electroreceptors are in the side)
He also makes clicking sounds when he eats larger foods such as algae wafers or earthworms, kind of like clown loaches. That he likes scraping away at algae wafers more than eating his pellets is weird enough, but the noises led me to discover they do actually have teeth unlike what some people claim.
They're considered fairly smart, but mine seems dumber than the goldfish I've had years ago. They would at least remember who feeds them when, even if left alone for weeks (vacation). BGKs are nearly blind though, so I instead trained mine to come out to feed with a flashlight. This routine continued for months, but then I skipped out on feeding for 2-3 days since he was getting picky and he completely forgot how to find his freaking food when I turned on the flashlight. Months later and he still gets spooked by the sound of the kids running upstairs, or even a footstep that just didn't sound right.
He's an idiot but he's a beautiful idiot.
Anyone else with weird accounts of their BGKs?
TL;DR, BGK can't catch a fish the size of his eyeball, addicted to algae wafers, makes noises when eating, really freaking stupid, afraid of nothing in the tank but deathly afraid of everything outside the tank.
