Been travelling the last couple weeks for work. I had my wife doing the basic feeding while I was gone, but when I got home my old 6inch Rainbow Shark was sucked up against the lift tube. Sometime close to the time I got home he had passed. I detected no physical harm other than the side sucked up against the lift tube was pale compared to the rest of him...
His tankmate was/still is a 7inch Flowerhorn who really never paid him any attention. So Yesterday I stopped in the LFS to find a replacement, well none of them were really that big, but figured the FH never paid any attention to the shark before, and with enough hiding spots a new smaller one should hopefully be ok. So picked out the biggest most aggressive shark in the tank and brought him home. The shark didn't seem that afraid of the FH, and I believe it was his downfall... as I was watching the tank before bedtime last night the FH decided to have a bedtime snack.... One quick glup and it was all over.
Guess that's that for Rainbow Shark tankmates...
His tankmate was/still is a 7inch Flowerhorn who really never paid him any attention. So Yesterday I stopped in the LFS to find a replacement, well none of them were really that big, but figured the FH never paid any attention to the shark before, and with enough hiding spots a new smaller one should hopefully be ok. So picked out the biggest most aggressive shark in the tank and brought him home. The shark didn't seem that afraid of the FH, and I believe it was his downfall... as I was watching the tank before bedtime last night the FH decided to have a bedtime snack.... One quick glup and it was all over.
Guess that's that for Rainbow Shark tankmates...
