three times this happened,
sometimes lessons really do have to learn't the hard way
I used to own a couple of Red Tailed Catfish, the first one i won on e bay for £15 @ 9" long
, problem was i was out shopping when i won it (not thinking i would) and found a 4" specimen in a local aquarist shop (paid £50 for it)
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anyway i have never known fish grow so fast in less than 18months my little 4" baby had turned into a 20" monster and my e bay win was just short of 2ft both with an appetite to boot
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at this stage they were both being fed shell on prawns, mussels and dry pellet fish bait.
the first time was one morning when i was late for work and left without feeding them, i came home to find large smiling RTC with a full stomach
and my aquarium a 6" Flowerhorn (£30) down.
the second time i had been working away and when i got my talipa pollensi (another £50) had gone, i suspect that someone had done the same as i had above but has never admitted it.
after that occasion i sold the smaller of the two to a guy in Manchester and assumed that i would be ok more fool me i got home one day to find that my big RTC had wanted more and tried to eat my 12" male Wolf Dovii only to find that he couldn't but also couldn't spit him back out so had managed to kill himself and the dovii in one foul swoop.
and thus therefore the moral of the story "don't forget to feed the cat!!"
sometimes lessons really do have to learn't the hard way
I used to own a couple of Red Tailed Catfish, the first one i won on e bay for £15 @ 9" long
, problem was i was out shopping when i won it (not thinking i would) and found a 4" specimen in a local aquarist shop (paid £50 for it).anyway i have never known fish grow so fast in less than 18months my little 4" baby had turned into a 20" monster and my e bay win was just short of 2ft both with an appetite to boot
.at this stage they were both being fed shell on prawns, mussels and dry pellet fish bait.
the first time was one morning when i was late for work and left without feeding them, i came home to find large smiling RTC with a full stomach
and my aquarium a 6" Flowerhorn (£30) down. the second time i had been working away and when i got my talipa pollensi (another £50) had gone, i suspect that someone had done the same as i had above but has never admitted it.
after that occasion i sold the smaller of the two to a guy in Manchester and assumed that i would be ok more fool me i got home one day to find that my big RTC had wanted more
and tried to eat my 12" male Wolf Dovii only to find that he couldn't but also couldn't spit him back out so had managed to kill himself and the dovii in one foul swoop.and thus therefore the moral of the story "don't forget to feed the cat!!"
