Hi guys! Is an elephant-nose some kind of knife? Can I mix it with a BGK, TT eel,Del and albino sens in a 110g? Tnx!
Elephant Nose?
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Yeah they are kinda like bgk coz they emmit weak electricity in finding food. So mostly if a bgk and elephant nose are mixed togother, they bgk might kill the elephant nose. But i could be wrong coz someone posted a picture of an adult bgk and elephant nose together.
By the way dude, where did you get the elephant nose and tiretrack eel, at cartimar?
By the way dude, where did you get the elephant nose and tiretrack eel, at cartimar?
just found the link:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53418&highlight=bgk+years
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53418&highlight=bgk+years
My opinion is an elephant nose is a kind of specialty fish.. if all is not perfect they do not survive... wrong tank mates and the elephant will starve because they never come out.. they are delicate type..only way i can see them flourish is if they have their own specialty tank.. i am sure there are some that do well regardless but this is what i have experienced with the sweet elephant nose.
I had an elephant nose (stupidly) for a while actually
It was in a community tank with all sorts of **** (african knife, severums, angels, clown loach, ect)
water was really hard and really alkaline...
he was happy as can be and came out all the time during the day and during the night.
I must have just gotten lucky
It was in a community tank with all sorts of **** (african knife, severums, angels, clown loach, ect)
water was really hard and really alkaline...
he was happy as can be and came out all the time during the day and during the night.
I must have just gotten lucky
dbcb314;1049558; said:
They can do okay in a peaceful tank..if they are not real shy.. what happened to him??He sounds like a really perfect little guy.. that you do not come across very often.
They're pretty shy and noctural fish. Kind of similar to a Black Ghost Knife. However, they aren't a "Knife fish," but do produce electrical impulses to help them "see." They aren't aggressive and do good in a medium size community tank.
I was gonna start a new thread about the 2 I just inherited. They are 8" & 9". 17 1/2 years old! They had lived in a 30g their whole lives & only could swim in circles, big one chasing the smaller (really should keep 1 or 3+ for this exact reason). The woman was an x-customer of mine & when I went to her home to groom her cat, I was enthralled by them. Never seen any that large. I also felt sorry for them in that tank.
Now she might get evicted, so she offered them to me. The only tank I have big enough to house them is my 125g. Some of you may already have seen the stocking list, which includes a 10" fahaka, that allows a host of tank mates, with just a little nipping. He by all means, is not the king of this tank (gets chased out of his cave by a Frontosa & 12" Goldspot pleco). After an hour acclimation (God knows if this woman ever did water changes), I put them in. They immediately started nervously swimming aound in circles. The funny thing was, they had the whole length of the tank but still swam in a circle as wide as their 30g. Within an hour, the puffer had gotten aggravated enough by their constant bumping him & trying to get into his cave, that he had bit one 1x on the tail & the other 2x. Their tails are fleshy, so I was quite concerned. I immediately went to some of my local forums to try to find a home for them. I was praying they'd make it thru the night. Well--they did & have never been bitten again (a welcome bite?). They are out in the open most of the time, eating along with the other fish & using the whole tank. I think that the puffer (& everyone else) was more aggravated by the breeding pair of Firemouths I had in there, locking jaws, flairing gills & chasing everybody, ao they are gone now & the tank is peaceful again. These fish are tough! They live with a 7" frontosa & quite a number of other fish & no one bothers them. No more chacing the smaller one either. I'm really thrilled to have them as a wonderful addition to my collection.
I think the biggest issue with these fish is getting them to eat when new. Luckily, my guys eat frozen foods. I has a juvie once & when my LFS was out of live blackworms for a week, it starved to death.
Now she might get evicted, so she offered them to me. The only tank I have big enough to house them is my 125g. Some of you may already have seen the stocking list, which includes a 10" fahaka, that allows a host of tank mates, with just a little nipping. He by all means, is not the king of this tank (gets chased out of his cave by a Frontosa & 12" Goldspot pleco). After an hour acclimation (God knows if this woman ever did water changes), I put them in. They immediately started nervously swimming aound in circles. The funny thing was, they had the whole length of the tank but still swam in a circle as wide as their 30g. Within an hour, the puffer had gotten aggravated enough by their constant bumping him & trying to get into his cave, that he had bit one 1x on the tail & the other 2x. Their tails are fleshy, so I was quite concerned. I immediately went to some of my local forums to try to find a home for them. I was praying they'd make it thru the night. Well--they did & have never been bitten again (a welcome bite?). They are out in the open most of the time, eating along with the other fish & using the whole tank. I think that the puffer (& everyone else) was more aggravated by the breeding pair of Firemouths I had in there, locking jaws, flairing gills & chasing everybody, ao they are gone now & the tank is peaceful again. These fish are tough! They live with a 7" frontosa & quite a number of other fish & no one bothers them. No more chacing the smaller one either. I'm really thrilled to have them as a wonderful addition to my collection.
I think the biggest issue with these fish is getting them to eat when new. Luckily, my guys eat frozen foods. I has a juvie once & when my LFS was out of live blackworms for a week, it starved to death.