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[MissClaire]

I was watching my fish this morning as you do and a neon swam under Bella's nose (my discus) I thought nothing of it until MUNCH .... bye bye neon.
A few moments later the neon came flying out of her mouth unscathed!
Either Bella didn't like the taste of neon or he had magical neon powers!

So what fish do you have that can beat the odds?

 

[CathyG]

LMAO! Lucky Neon!

Many years ago, I released a few Guppy fry into my tank to see if they were big enough to brave their new world yet. Within minutes I spotted my female Betta with a fry in her mouth (the fry's head was still poking out) I panicked and tapped the tank, and she spat it out! I then spent ages rounding them all back up and putting them back in the fry net.

 

[David]

Hehe. I've never had any of these close encounters. My neons have always just disappeared. Claire are you going to do something about it? (Like remove the neons, etc.)

 

[dixaisy930]

Lucky neon!!

Being the sucker I am for poor bettas in tiny cups, I was looking through a few and came across this poor, pale colorless betta. The guy had a horrible case of ick, and was missing a good part of his tail. Not expecting to save, just give him a better few last days, I took him home, put him in a private two gallon tank, with a little salt, MelaFix and PimaFix. About three weeks later he was a completely new betta! A brilliant deep blue color, but still missing part of the tail. Today he enjoys the comfort of a 60 gallon tank!

 

[Dwarfs]

Discus don't know how to eat fish Does Bella need lessons from some of my fish??? JK

 

[MissClaire]

Discus don't know how to eat fish Does Bella need lessons from some of my fish??? JK

Oh shhh just let me think I have a superneon ok!

And no, Bella doesnt need a munching demonstration from your fish!

 

[aloaring]

Due to disease we had to move some of our fish out of one tank and into the other ones. So we put our two pygmy cories into our 18 gallon thinking that they would be too big for our Kribs to eat. Within minutes of puttin gthem in there we witnessed our male krib swallow one pygmy whole we quickly rescued the other one and put it in a breeding net for safe keeping. As you can imagine i was absolutely horrifed and gutted. an hour later i was looking in the tank and who was swimming right in front of me..yes you guessed it the pygmy cory. !! So he quickly went into the bredding net with his buddy!!

 

[MissClaire]

Due to disease we had to move some of our fish out of one tank and into the other ones. So we put our two pygmy cories into our 18 gallon thinking that they would be too big for our Kribs to eat. Within minutes of puttin gthem in there we witnessed our male krib swallow one pygmy whole we quickly rescued the other one and put it in a breeding net for safe keeping. As you can imagine i was absolutely horrifed and gutted. an hour later i was looking in the tank and who was swimming right in front of me..yes you guessed it the pygmy cory. !! So he quickly went into the bredding net with his buddy!!

bwhahaha! Go the cory! Those little guys just love life dont they!

 

[Rdelusion]

Many years ago I had an albino aquatic frog in my tank and was rounding my fish up as I was doing a major tank clean and caught my frog and a neon in my net at the same time.
The frog gulped down the neon and the poor little neons tail was sticking out the frogs mouth! I didn't know frogs did that at the time! I totally flipped and grabbed the neons tail before it disappeared and pulled it back out.

That neon lived for many years afterwards and I always wondered if it ever sat down and told the young fry around the campfir.....emm I mean ....around the airstone about the the time it looked at the gullet of a frog and survived

....frog went straight back to the LFS, lucky it didn't end up in a frog sandwich!