How The Heck Did He Survive??!!

[X24]

ya a dropped that guy off for ya and just left him in that tank since i couldn't find any other empty ones...i guess i want it back now

 

[ewurm]

There was a few inches of muddy water in the unused tank and no filter. It had to feed on something to grow. Non-estivating LFs need to feed like any other active animal. I know he wasn't estivating since they reduce to 10% of their metabolic rate. So, there's no way it would have grown 7" in that time.
The tank he was in was about 8 feet from, and 3 feet down from the tank he escaped from.

Maybe you had other fish jumping into that tank which it ate? Or maybe insects? I am dumbfounded.

 

[bigspizz]

Maybe he was in the tank he was discovered in for only moments? Maybe he was roaming?

 

[Mystus Redtail]

Thats so cool.

 

[Bderick67]

Seven inches in seven months, what would be the normal growth for that amount of time in ideal conditions? Amazing story though.

 

[Oddball]

Seven inches in seven months, what would be the normal growth for that amount of time in ideal conditions? Amazing story though.

That would be the normal growth rate in good conditions. 43 years in this hobby and I've never even heard of anything like this.

 

[ikevi]

Huh, wow is all I can say.

 

[JardiniBoy]

That could go into Ripley's!

The tank he was in was about 8 feet from, and 3 feet down from the tank he escaped from.

It must have been a one in a few billion chance of getting in there in the first place, let alone surviving and growing 7" ... Oddball, wanna work out the probabilities for us? (I always hated stats!)

 

[vanimate]

They say that the truth is stranger than fiction. There ya go, Amazing story.

 

[ddyerfamily]

Lucky Lucky Fish