Mines probably about 17inches he eats mostly feeders,not my choice but his,he does like nightcrawlers though, and has eaten a couple pieces of market shrimp. As soon as I upgrade him, which is real soon, I am puttin him in with two albino channels and going to start feedin floating pellets mainly, and other foods also (BUT NO FEEDERS) so I really hope he picks up on this quickly cause he is the only reason feeders are in my house right now and I'm pretty tired of it. I think he will adapt cause he never passes up the night crawlers, but anytime I've tried to feed him pellets in the past he just mouthed them and spit em,but fish learn from other fish so the channel pigs, I mean cat's, should show him how to comsume the pellets just fine.
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i have a clown knife its eats about everything we feed him it is in an 125 gallon aquarium and we got him when he was about 4 inches it is like 7 inchels now we have had him for over a year why is my clown knife growing so slow i have him in a tank with two 12-14 inch oscars and one 16 inch albino channel catfish with a 12 inch pleco we have a flower pot that he stays in all the time is this the reason he may not be growing to fast or do i have to many fish in the aquarium?
kevin
kevin
Approximately how big do you guys who have experience with clowns knives think that the aquarium should be?
My clown is about 10" now. I just got a 260G 7' by 2' by 30" for him and my Birchers. Some people say you need a tank thats 3' wide but who can put a tank that big in their house? I would think a 210G (2'wide 6'long) is the minimum for a full grown knife. My LFS agrees with me on this.Mtnbike719;843107;843107 said:
I think that one of the best things about having a Clown Knife is watching them attack feeders. The risk of disease is WAY overblown. In the wild fish mainly catch weak/ diseased fish . I do however buy my feeders by the hundred and quaranteen them, mostly to fatten them up. IMO why keep Birchers or Clowns to feed them pellets- yawn. Piscivores should be fed live fish.
my CK is at 20'' and eats every kind of fish fillets i give him, he also loves shrimp sinking pellets and Sera Nip huge pellets, these are supposed to be sticked to the aquarium glass for smaller fish to nip from them, but a CK can eat as much as 10/12 in seconds.
I used to have 2 of them, but one of them quickly died coz the other one (was a bit bigger than him) didn't let him eat anything at all, so he died from hunger.
Also, at the begining, when I first added them to the tank, they refused to eat anything else but living fish/frogs etc...but since a month now, he (the one who's still alive) eats almost everything, even discus food. lol
Also, at the begining, when I first added them to the tank, they refused to eat anything else but living fish/frogs etc...but since a month now, he (the one who's still alive) eats almost everything, even discus food. lol
I have had one clown for 2 months now, it has grown to about 5-6".
Today I added 2 new clowns to the tank, they are a little bigger than the first one, but not much. They all share the same spot and everything seems to be working out fine.
Has anyone here experience from having more than one clown knife together?
I read somewhere that 3 was better then 2, thats why i added 2 more.
Today I added 2 new clowns to the tank, they are a little bigger than the first one, but not much. They all share the same spot and everything seems to be working out fine.
Has anyone here experience from having more than one clown knife together?
I read somewhere that 3 was better then 2, thats why i added 2 more.
