what do you consider a "monster fish"?
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Look guy, a monster fish is one that is predatory, demands respect because they beat the living daylights out of tankmates. I think my spectabile will be monsters one day. crossing those fingers guy.
I consider "monster" to be mainly size, but attitude also. For example, my monster fish include:
clown loach (over a foot in length, full grown), black ghost, fire eel, all kinds of plecos, severums, chocolate and blackbelt cichlids, common tiger shovelnose, clown knife, and my fish from the past: tilapia mariae, black doradid, featherfin knife, marble cat, marble goby, ornate polypterus, and my long time lover, my African lungfish,Spike.
clown loach (over a foot in length, full grown), black ghost, fire eel, all kinds of plecos, severums, chocolate and blackbelt cichlids, common tiger shovelnose, clown knife, and my fish from the past: tilapia mariae, black doradid, featherfin knife, marble cat, marble goby, ornate polypterus, and my long time lover, my African lungfish,Spike.
Monster Fish = No respect for tankmates. If you will fit in my mouth, you will be food. I don't care if you are a Pima, or peacock bass, if you fit in my mouth, you are food.
I think what makes a monster fish is atitude not just size having had small chiclids that would chase off or defend territory from fish many times their size
I think also uncommon fish, that are not readealy available, all those large fishes classified as oddballs, with a monster size or an above average size for their regular shape that may or may not have an agressive behaviour. Ive has in this case an Arowana (buck teeth) and my african lung fish who even let himself be petted (the secret was to do that after feeding him, and also the shape of my pond) an mantray.
What happened to my fish was a combination of bad luck and mistakes,,,one day I after a year and a half with me, I found my lung fish outside the water dead,,,I couldn't understand how that could happen since they could survive for some time in the water, and i also had a net. So I remembered I had a security camera that overviewed my pond and as I was tracking the video I found out that my small shnauzer 12 year old dog after patiently waiting, suddenly grabbed my lung fish out of the water and threw it outside without a bite. Whatw more amazing is that after throwing the poor fish, the dog just walked away smoothly like nothing happened. I would have never believed my 12 year old dog, would have killed my lung fish who had been in my pond for a year and a half,,,
What happened to my fish was a combination of bad luck and mistakes,,,one day I after a year and a half with me, I found my lung fish outside the water dead,,,I couldn't understand how that could happen since they could survive for some time in the water, and i also had a net. So I remembered I had a security camera that overviewed my pond and as I was tracking the video I found out that my small shnauzer 12 year old dog after patiently waiting, suddenly grabbed my lung fish out of the water and threw it outside without a bite. Whatw more amazing is that after throwing the poor fish, the dog just walked away smoothly like nothing happened. I would have never believed my 12 year old dog, would have killed my lung fish who had been in my pond for a year and a half,,,
