Water Changes with a heavy buzz not good!

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screaminleeman

Jack Dempsey
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I am one seriously lucky dude. I feed the extreme majority of my predatory fish that I keep by hand. One exception is my RBP tank. I do NOT feed these fish by hand, and only place my hand in their tank when absolutely necessary and only after they are well fed.

The other day, I was be-bay-ba-boo-boned, it was late evening and was wrapping up the last water change of around a dozen tanks for the day. I do not know what triggered my "moment of clarity" where I realized that I had been holding the gravel vacuum with my hand in the water of my RBP tank like it was a cardinal tetra tank or something! Wow, could that have turned into a seriously "bad" experience!:nilly:
 
Didn't River Monsters fiherman dispellthat myth? He laid in a pool with about 50 RBP's and they swam about like he was nothing.

How do they react to your hand if your, say rearranging the decore?

Got videos?
 
I agree they do get a bad wrap sometimes. But who hasnt been nipped by their fish. They get use to seeing hands bring food and associate the two only with RBP its a trip to the emergency room and stitches!
 
Did that once and got zapped by an electric eel.
 
Racersk;4799445; said:
Didn't River Monsters fiherman dispellthat myth? He laid in a pool with about 50 RBP's and they swam about like he was nothing.

How do they react to your hand if your, say rearranging the decore?

Got videos?
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when they're in breeding/spawning mode they're little nasty buggers to any invaders in the tank and will attack fingers :nilly: just like every other fish parents out there!
 
rbp are relative safe fish.. ya if they bite you will be getting stitches, but they dont just attack, try playing in the tilapia tank
 
some might be tho if the feel very safe in a tank
 
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