The Mark of the Beast.

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rdx1555

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Not eactly a picture of my 13inch ornate but it is the dental impression it left on this poor guy a few days ago. haha.

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Thought it was a good idea to move my 8x 2-2.5" spotted silver dollars to the 120g from the growout thinking they'd be big enough and fast enough to evade predation boy was I wrong. Pop them in at first and the dats are curiously checking them out but no attempts to eat. Check on them later that night and see my 13" ornate trying to swallow one of the smaller sd's. Notice the sd is still breathing so I poke the ornate and he spits the sd. I then netted the sd's back into the growout. They practically jumped into the net to get out of that tank lol.

4x2x2 120g inhabitants 2x 8-9inch colombian oscars, 5" NTT, 6" AT, 7" IT, 8" BGK, 2x 10" palmas polli, 9" nigerian sen, 12" lap, 12" del, 8" ornate, and the culprit 13" ornate. Here's a quick full tank shot.

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ornates are beasts!

On our German board, there's a thread with pictures of mostly ornates and lapradeis eating plecos and other "inedible" fish half their size...

I saw my ornates eating trumpet snails until none were left.
 
I wouldnt trust any polys wth anything near or less than half their size,but they are very cool.


Steve
 
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