My first Payara

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Ej6hatchie

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Heres a pic of my scomb ive had for about 2 months. I know theyre known for randomly dropping dead, but at the time my tank was ready for a fish there were no payara tats in sight!

A couple weeks later i visited my LFS and saw the scomb in a tank with a GATF, large arowana, RTC, and some more big fish. The guy was only 4in... the other fish were huge. Although i knew the fish was stressed cause it was hiding in the corner of the tank from the other fish, i picked it up anyways... with no regrets!

I've included pics below.


Btw can someone tell me whats up with his eye? I actually bought it like that but didnt notice it till i was home. It was actually worse when i picked it up but for the two months its only healed a little bit. Im guessing it's from ramming into the decorations they had in the LFS tank trying to get away from the bigger fish.

Sorry for the cellphone pics :/
Thanks!

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Here he is with his current tankmates. 1 hujeta gar, 4 spotted SD and a small peacock eel somewhere in the sand

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Nice fish. Not sure why the eye is like that. Could be an old injury from tankmates or other payara.
 
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