Maybe this should go in lessons learned. Sorry for your loss but you should have known better. Frontosa are very slow moving and not very aggressive and the ones you bought were not much bigger than a feeder goldfish. It was bound to happen.
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lucas2;1159666; said:I bought 4 frontosa (1 to 1.5") at my lfs today and brought them home to my mixed cichlid tank.I put them in about 8 hours ago and everything seemed OK, they were getting picked on alot, but this seems pretty normal for their first day. Well just now I looked at the tank, and my 6" flowerhorn has one blue little tail hanging out of his mouth
I feel really bad because these guys were really cute and I really wanted to keep them. Not to mention the fact that I could buy 150 goldfish for the price of one.
Almost ANY 1-1.5" fish you put in with a cichlid is dinner. I guess you learned a very exensive lesson.
The most expensive lesson I learned the hard way was with Roseline sharks. I paid $100.00 for 4 full grown 6" Roseline sharks and the next morning my Jag had eaten 3 of them. It REALLY SUCKED!
Yeah thats what happens when you put 1inch fish with 6 inch fish the flower said fresh fronts are sweet.
He only ate one of them, the other 3 are fine. Not even being picked on anymore. It has been a couple days and I think I should be OK now. I have convicts and chinease algea eaters in the tank that are smaller than the fronts and they have been OK for months. I plan on picking up a few more, growing them out a bit and getting them a nice 125 or so for a colony tank.
Plecos_Ftw;1162011; said:
They were on the endangered species list for a years. Maybe they're still hard to get or something I don't know but they're really expensive. The first time I saw them a few years ago, the LFS was asking $39.99 each for them and they weren't even full grown.
