Does anyone have a standard petsmart needle nose gare living with a full grown Jack? The needle is at least 10 inches. The reason I ask is I recently had to remove my JD from my Oscar, it was literally withing minutes of killing the Oscar, and put it in with the needlenose. The JD doesn't pay any attention to the needle but the needle has stopped eating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
JD and Needle nose ??
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needle fish are skittish as hell, the jd will probably be the death of the needle if it doesnt jump out of the tank.
Let me give you the whole story. My girlfriend and I have a 100 gallon with an Oscar 11" and a 10" JD, and two plecos. Then we also have a 50 with a 10" needle, large angel, jewel cichlid, blue gourami, two 3" clown loaches, and two small adult bichirs. Also we have a 20 gallon with 3 rosberas, 6 kuhli loaches, 1 swordtail, and a couple of mollies. We also have a couple of smaller tanks, one stream setup for a hillstream and one for dwarf puffer. Every thing was going just fine.
Anyway one morning my girlfriend woke me up early stating that the Jack was killing the Oscar. Well the oscar grew up faster than the jack so the it got picked on every now and then, but now it looked like the rise of the underdog. I went into the living room and there were scales floating in the tank and the Oscar had teeth marks on its face and bites in its side and it was laying on the bottom of the tank. Then the Jack went right at it again. I haven't seen anything like that since I owned paranahs years ago. I seperated them with a net and contained the JD in a bucket. I moved the angel and the gourami to the 20 gallon. Then moved the jewel, bichirs and needle to the 100. Then put the JD in the 50. The oscar checked out its new roommates and now they all just get along, except the needles couldn't handle the couriosity and went into shock so I tossed it back into the 50. Supprisily the JD doesn't even seem to notice it. The needles doesn't run from it but quit eating. I also have moved the clowns to the 100 because they haven't left thier "log" since the JD moved in. I also moved one of the plecos to the 50 to even out the bio load. What a soap operah this has become.
That was about a week and a half ago and every thing is going great exept for the needle not eating. My girlfriend wants to place the needle in the 20 but that would just turn out to be a feeding frenzy and I acually bred the kuhlis so I definantly don't want to do that.
So the only way I see of getting out of a fish diing is setting up another tank. The most economic way I see is setting up a 10 with the kuhlis, rosberas, swordtail, and mollies. Sorry about the book I wrote here.
Anyway one morning my girlfriend woke me up early stating that the Jack was killing the Oscar. Well the oscar grew up faster than the jack so the it got picked on every now and then, but now it looked like the rise of the underdog. I went into the living room and there were scales floating in the tank and the Oscar had teeth marks on its face and bites in its side and it was laying on the bottom of the tank. Then the Jack went right at it again. I haven't seen anything like that since I owned paranahs years ago. I seperated them with a net and contained the JD in a bucket. I moved the angel and the gourami to the 20 gallon. Then moved the jewel, bichirs and needle to the 100. Then put the JD in the 50. The oscar checked out its new roommates and now they all just get along, except the needles couldn't handle the couriosity and went into shock so I tossed it back into the 50. Supprisily the JD doesn't even seem to notice it. The needles doesn't run from it but quit eating. I also have moved the clowns to the 100 because they haven't left thier "log" since the JD moved in. I also moved one of the plecos to the 50 to even out the bio load. What a soap operah this has become.
That was about a week and a half ago and every thing is going great exept for the needle not eating. My girlfriend wants to place the needle in the 20 but that would just turn out to be a feeding frenzy and I acually bred the kuhlis so I definantly don't want to do that.
So the only way I see of getting out of a fish diing is setting up another tank. The most economic way I see is setting up a 10 with the kuhlis, rosberas, swordtail, and mollies. Sorry about the book I wrote here.
just set up a 40 breeder for the jd and move everyone back where they came from. thats what i would do, either that or just feed the jack to MY fish.
Intreresting. in my experiece the KN does best in low traffic areas wiit eithe fierce bottom dwellers or passive catfish. Anything to dominate ffreaks them out