I afraid of bird beaks, especially anything that have hooked beaks.Actually I was going to say
The wife keeps big and small parakeets.
Logging the pond and it's inhabitants
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The wife keeps big and small parakeets.
Morning feeding video, when the sunlight illuminates the pond perfect, and I can see the fish clearly without much reflection.
The Asians are getting real thick.
Well we have one more new addition for
Glad to see it made the journey nicely, wow what a beautful Goldenhead Jibran, look fwd to seeing it in a tank. Which farm is it from if you care to share?
Yeah I am glad too, the fish ATM is in a tank by itself, have to get it to eat something before I move it to a bigger tank, and then eventually to the pond.
The farm is Aqua Nature Aquatics.
I am not sure now, how things would go ahead, and what might be the possibilities in future.
What do you think of mixing so many different aros in one place.
That's a great albeit difficult question Jibran: I'll be honest in saying my first thought was man, I'd be a bit hesitant to put a show piece like that in a community pond setting, but I must admit this is mostly because I wouldn't be able to see its full beauty as easily, which essentially comes down to being kinda selfish -- the 'best' environment (as long as it wasn't bullied, or small enough to be eaten) would undeniably be a nice sized pond like yours most would say. That said there's some inherent selfishness in the whole fish keeping thing if one thinks about it deep enough, so I don't think anyone would begrudge you either approach.
If I ever did put it in the pond though, as I'm sure you would, I'd monitor it very closely -- emotional issues aside, it would kinda suck to lose a $1,000 or so fish to say a $75 Silver Arowana. That said you've never mentioned much in the way about aggression issues in the pond, so maybe it would be just fine -- it'll be interesting to see which route you eventually take.
Up until now the fish I have added to the pond haven't been anything premium, just HBRTG and xbacks and silvers, but i have been purposefully delaying the release of the red into the pond, albeit, they're logical, the fish even now is quite picky about its diet, and I hadn't photographed it enough.
Although i am very intrigued by the thought of seeing the red get intense in the sunlight, so i will release him to the pond, may be a little later though.
About aggression in the pond, i have not seen much of it, as i very rarely get to sit in front of the Pond for long periods of time.
But during feeding i see a lot of crashing into each other, sometimes even biting eachother while rushing for food.
I do see scale loss and some injuries, but nothing fatal up until now.
Although i have lost one silver to aggression, and one silver to unknown causes.
An update of the albino silvers growing out
Had reduced the tank space with a divider to reduce the fights.
Have removed the divider now that they are ok with each other.
