I'm setting up a 55 gal. for African Cichlids but stay with me here Knife fans.
I have a 29 gal. community tank that I had a 7" Brown Knife in and all was great until I came home from work to find that a heater had ****ed up and half the fish was fried, including the brown Knife (my favorite)!
I had got him some time ago when he was 4" and my tank had not been the same, before or since. Great Fish!!!!
I have to drive 50 miles round trip to get to the closest Pet Smart. They was out of them three different times. So I went to a LFS 50 miles away to see what they had. (East Texas sucks around here for LFS)
To my surprise at a Petco they had two special order Knives that no one had picked up. I did not know the care of the Knives that they had and the boy that worked there didn't either. So as I have many times, I went to their book section to find out what I was getting into.
After looking through about six books and not seeing one knife listed, my wife said that she had found them in, Aquarium fish for Dummies
I Hate those Dummies
books but that is all we had to go on.
She read that they like to shoal and they get 10" at adult.
Well that sounded good to me, since the browns got to 8".
I was thinking that I had some time to get a larger tank when they needed it....sooooo we said we would take one, but wait! When he moved the rock, there was two! Great! We will take both! after all they are shoaling fish so the more the merrier right!
Well once we get home and have the bags floating, I look up the Knives on the only site I trust..MonsterFishKeepers.com
Oh ****!!! They are Clown Knives and in the wild get 40" and in a tank could get 18-24" or bigger and then I read that they only like to shoal when they are little and are very aggressive to one another when they get big!
I have never been one to walk away from a challenge, especially when it comes to my kids, or pets. What ever I need to do to keep these cool fish Happy and healthy, I will. My wife is so cool too, she was right in there looking for a much bigger tank on the net. I'm not sure how we can make it work but we will! After looking at these guy's on the net for several hours I know that we have the coolest fish out there.
Oh, and after we get a bigger tank for the Ck's we will finish the 55gal. with Africans.
I would love to learn more about these monster fish, so tell me all you wish about your experience. I will read it over and over again.
Thank you all, Monster Fish Keepers!
I have a 29 gal. community tank that I had a 7" Brown Knife in and all was great until I came home from work to find that a heater had ****ed up and half the fish was fried, including the brown Knife (my favorite)!
I had got him some time ago when he was 4" and my tank had not been the same, before or since. Great Fish!!!!
I have to drive 50 miles round trip to get to the closest Pet Smart. They was out of them three different times. So I went to a LFS 50 miles away to see what they had. (East Texas sucks around here for LFS)
To my surprise at a Petco they had two special order Knives that no one had picked up. I did not know the care of the Knives that they had and the boy that worked there didn't either. So as I have many times, I went to their book section to find out what I was getting into.
After looking through about six books and not seeing one knife listed, my wife said that she had found them in, Aquarium fish for Dummies
I Hate those Dummies
books but that is all we had to go on. She read that they like to shoal and they get 10" at adult.
Well that sounded good to me, since the browns got to 8".
I was thinking that I had some time to get a larger tank when they needed it....sooooo we said we would take one, but wait! When he moved the rock, there was two! Great! We will take both! after all they are shoaling fish so the more the merrier right!
Well once we get home and have the bags floating, I look up the Knives on the only site I trust..MonsterFishKeepers.com
Oh ****!!! They are Clown Knives and in the wild get 40" and in a tank could get 18-24" or bigger and then I read that they only like to shoal when they are little and are very aggressive to one another when they get big!I have never been one to walk away from a challenge, especially when it comes to my kids, or pets. What ever I need to do to keep these cool fish Happy and healthy, I will. My wife is so cool too, she was right in there looking for a much bigger tank on the net. I'm not sure how we can make it work but we will! After looking at these guy's on the net for several hours I know that we have the coolest fish out there.
Oh, and after we get a bigger tank for the Ck's we will finish the 55gal. with Africans.
I would love to learn more about these monster fish, so tell me all you wish about your experience. I will read it over and over again.
Thank you all, Monster Fish Keepers!
This is day three of clown town and all are doing great!. It seems that there is a big difference in the two fish. As I was bringing them home in the bags, the one on my right leg , (that I now call Bozo) jumped and flopped about all the way home. Now he is now the one that comes out the most and that I have seen eat guppies, gold fish, and night crawlers. 