Water changes with killer fish?

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IMO i think it depends to every wolffish. I have seen both aggressive ones and calm ones. So IMO rule of thumb..WATCH UR HANDS! You never know....... Be paranoid as hell. LOL!

Try Stingrays. they are safe yet in every way dangerous as well. Josh can tell you all about it :D
 
trust - when you say aggressive ones and calm ones - do you mean malabaricus? Or other species of wolf?

And glory - how big was the wolf that bit you and how much damage did it do? :)
 
my snakehead attacks the python and the magnets for the glass
 
rayman45 said:
my snakehead attacks the python and the magnets for the glass
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funny stuff.
you should make a vid of that :cheers:
 
rumblesushi said:
I've just got back into fish age 23, having been a huge predatory fish fan when I was a kid.

I used to own pirhanas, a big red snakehead, electric catfish, a gar, african lungfish etc.

Now when I was young (9-13) and did tank maintenance and water changes, I didn't have to worry about the pirhanas and catfish etc. They were pussies, I used to touch them and they did nothing. Same with the gar.

The lungfish I was weary of, and I would go nowhere near the snakehead. That was plain mean. Would attack anything you put in the tank, including fish the same size.

Now I'm just setting up a tank after all these years, and I've decided the fish for me is a wolf fish :D

I hear it's the one fish that's more aggressive than a snakehead :drool: :D

I know they are very fast, powerful, and can jump.

So when doing water changes - how would I prevent getting chomped by a fish like this or it jumping out of the tank?

Do you guys quarantine your killer fish when doing maintenance or just be incredibly careful?

Cheers,
JR
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Movable tank divider made from clips and egg crate, corral your fish, do one side, repeat for other, worked for me with my mean rbps
 
A little wolf fish story..

When I was younger, before I was into fish, I knew a friend who had a wolf fish. He kept it by himself in a 55g tank in the middle of his living room. It usually just layed there, and looked ugly. He always bragged about what a killer he was, but he just.. layed around. I didn't have much interest in fish at the time, and I thought it was a waste of a big tank.

So one day I am at this friend's house, and hes having a BBQ. Unfortunetly the side of his family full of wanna-be gangsters showed up. They begun talking about the wolf fish, and the owner proclaimed that he was quite aggressive, but only during feeding time.

One of the wanna-be's immediately spouted off something like "yo yo yo, that fish aint shizzy, no fish is crazy mean like that, except maybe pirhanas." ...

So the owner replied "Actually, this thing is meaner than a pirhana, and would bite your hand if you stuck it in the tank."

With alcohol involved, and male egos flaring, it soon became an argument. The wanna-be said he was going to put his hand in the tank, and show everyone it won't bite him. He said if it bit him, hed punch it in the mouth.

So he rolls up his sleeve, and dives his hand into the tank. The wolf just sat there, motionless. He starts laughing at the owner of the wolf fish, calling him a pu$$y. He took his eye of the wolf fish, and then BAM it bit him in the hand!

Of course, thinking he is tough, he tries to punch the wolf fish. Obviously his fists don't work very well under water. So this guy gets angry, and says hes going to beat the crap out of this wolf fish, with his fists. The owner laughed, and told him to go ahead and try.

Basically it became a drunken boxing match. Unfortunetly the wolf fish was incredibly fast and agile(and Sober), and realized that this 'fist' was looking for a confrontation. He chased the wolf fish around with his hand for about 5 minutes. At no point did he ever strike the wolf fish, but perhaps barely grazing it. The wolf fish would dodge, and attack upon every swoop of his fist. After about 5 minutes the gangsta realizes that he has been outwitted by a fish, and gives up.

After pulling his hand out of the water, it immediately began drawing blood. After cleaning up the wounds, they counted over 24 puncture hole left in his hands, fingers, and knuckles. Not to mention a number of scrapes. While the wolf fish, laying motionless, looked the same as always.

The guy said 'yo yo that fish is nuts, and my hand hurts like krazie yo, lets drink sum mo 40's." My friends still have a good laugh about that story every year when we have the BBQ at his house.. The wanna-be gangster we never really talked to again, but his friends say he tries to play it off like it was nothing. (We didnt really know him anyways..) Since then, the owner got rid of the wolf fish, out of boredom.
 
The one that got me was a 7" common wolf fish. The damage wasn't too bad at first. The teeth left tons of holes in the hand that bled like crazy for a while. The **** hit the fan a few days later when an infection broke out. Turns out a tooth broke inside my hands. Yep...major suckiness. We still have the bastard at Absolutely Fish, where I work.
 
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