CLown Knife 12 inch plus owners needed!!

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Finalfire9

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LOL so you have a goddamn eating machine. Feed it 3 times a day it will grow 1 to 2 inches per month but you have a massive waste issue. I have 2 that are 27+ inches each. serouisly I feed them dry cat or dog food. Twice a week. Bc other methods are just too damn expensive.. But to show them off when company is over ill toss feeders in there. I Keep feeders in a seperate tank in the living room

Whats really interesting about feedin these guys is they are "dramaqueens" when it comes to eating.


Say i toss in a pellet of dry food. Once the pellet is located by afeatherback it will hover for a half second below it and in quarter second flash from 5 inches below the surface envoluping the pellet and going back a foot or two down below the surface.

The action happens so fast it sounds like 6 inch rock got lobbed into my fish tank Sending water everywhere.

Whats funny is sometimes they are so dramatic about getting the pellet they will completely miss the pellet LOL. They also will do this move when i drop some feeders in the tank. I think they do it to get some oxygen in their gills to get amped up for the kill.

Plz dont reply to this if you have not owned a Featherback, Clownknife less then a year!!!!! Or if your CK is less then 10 inches! Troll on. This type of eating style didnt develop till after the first year of ownership.

I want behavoir feedback from experienced owners;) with knifes older then 1 year if they also have this same behavoir.
 
I have a golden clown that's approx 16 inches and he'll pull thawed smelt out of my gars mouth, it does the same to my male jaguar cichlid as well.
 
My clown was very gentle and a slow cruiser. He wasn't in a tank with another knife tho.

I usually hand fed him. He would cruise up and gently take the food from my hand.

Sadly he made my RTCxTSN mad one day and he killed him..

I miss clowny
 
Finalfire9;2109524; said:
Plz dont reply to this if you have not owned a Featherback, Clownknife less then a year!!!!! Or if your CK is less then 10 inches! Troll on.

:ROFL: I guess you think MFK is here just for you :ROFL:

Enjoy YOUR thread
 
Aqua Sanctuary;2112488; said:
My clown was very gentle and a slow cruiser. He wasn't in a tank with another knife tho.

I usually hand fed him. He would cruise up and gently take the food from my hand.

Sadly he made my RTCxTSN mad one day and he killed him..

I miss clowny

You're telling me that a tiger shovelnose can best a large clown knife in a fight or did your Ted-Tailed Catfish and Tiger Shovelnose gang up on him?
 
Aqua Sanctuary;2112488; said:
My clown was very gentle and a slow cruiser. He wasn't in a tank with another knife tho.

I usually hand fed him. He would cruise up and gently take the food from my hand.

Sadly he made my RTCxTSN mad one day and he killed him..

I miss clowny

How often do you feed him? Have you tried no feeding for a week? I bet no food for a week would bring out the beastwithin
 
Mine does the same thing that Finalfire9 is talking about. Mine just loves hiding in his spot too much... and only comes out during feeding time. Rushes up to the surface for a few pellets and dives right back down to his spot. He usually does that a few times during each feeding until he can't find anymore pellets.
 
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