Sneaky, Sneaky...

[HendrixTheOscar]

Well who'd have thought it.

I bought a bichir about a month ago at about 3" in length. He has since gone on a growth spurt and shot to about 6/7" and is a fat git. lol.

I was wondering just how/why he'd gotten so large so fast. I had 4 guppies, 3 of which dissapeared at different instances, never to return from what i can only presume to be the depths of Dante's stomach lining.

Yesterday i popped out and bought 4 very beautiful guppies with dragontail's all nice and colourful and looking great. I left the house for Uni. I came back several hours later to find one........dun dun duuuuunn.... had disappeared *queue eary music* lol.

I cursed my luck and left for the evening to take my fiance out to dinner. Upon returning this morning i turned on the light to the tank. There was a mist and a warm breeze sifting across the water (for artistic contect, of course) and there, siwmming in the middle was............ONE SINGLE GUPPY!! *queue blood-curdling scream....arrrrrrrgghhhhh!!*

The only guppy not to have disappeared (in the Bermuda Triangle that is my aquarium) is one of the first guppies i ever bought, a red tail, let's call him.........imaginitavely......Houdini.

What his system is or how he manages to evade the jaws of Dante the Bichir badass one shall never know, unless i was of course to dock out the lights and record in night vision. Perhaps something to consider one day soon but for now.......

.........the tale is but mystery.......shadows in the dark.....oily pools of oily-ness......litter in the wind......

 

[Miss Wiggle]

high protein food...... guppies

 

[HendrixTheOscar]

Well i haven't heard him complaining yet but i wish he wouldn't eat such expensive meals. He'll be asking for lobster next!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

Well i haven't heard him complaining yet but i wish he wouldn't eat such expensive meals. He'll be asking for lobster next!

put him in with appropriate fish and he won't eat them. i can't believe your surprised he has?!

 

[HendrixTheOscar]

Hey the other one's still kicking, how i have no idea but he is. He's indestructable!! TA DAAAHHH!! lol.

Hard as nails ah tell thee. It'd be interesting to watch him nab one but i've never seen it happen myself. I love him to bits but i want colourful smallies too. Might happen, you never know.

 

[Jules H-T]

Might happen, you never know.

Yeah you do. Stick guppies in with a birchir and you're just buying fancy food. Not that I object to that, but don't kid yourelf that anything else is going to happen. It's just pretty expensive.

Houdini is not long for this world, I predict.

Having said that, you keep the birchir well fed enough, and he might just not be bothered to catch houdini. Miss a feeding though, and *POOF* Houdini will dissappear before your very eyes.

 

[HendrixTheOscar]

You could be right but he's evaded him for a good month at least while every other has been eaten. He's one of two batches of 4 so he's just invulnerable. maybe he's like a little Al Capone or The Godfather and he controls the other fish. lol.

Dante the bichir's going to love me anyway as a friend of mine is leaving for Barnsley and has requested thati take his fish off of him. 14 small fish like danios, tetras and guppies, 2 plecs and a ghost knife. I might end up keeing a plec and the littles but i think the other plec and the knife will have to be sold, knowing how big they get.

I'll keep you posted on Houdini/Al Capone

 

[Ransom]

ive had something very similar
i had 7 guppies which 5 disapeared an now have just got the 2 but ive had these 2 for the past 1.5months so god knows where the other 5 went to.

we thought it was the big eyed african catfish but he never moves from under his rock still puzzled by this all this time later

 

[Vicky99]

Ransom - I had a fish (that I knew to be ill) die and didn't find the body until I noticed my plec sucking on something (yup it was the body). Could be that they die in the night and your plec munches the bodies up - or that your catfish comes out at night and goes on a rampage.

I've never been able to keep guppies - I think sometimes because they are often in bred to produce all of the fancy colours, they are perhaps not as hardy as they used to be.

 

[Gankutsuou]

Don;t guppies have some mineral breaking down property that is bad for most fish?

And also - I have a glow lite tetra that's 3 years old and had lived with him in a 10 gallon for 1/2 a month and in the 38 for about a month unschathed. He's one tough dude, but obviously, things this small can get eaten. Don't get things that fit in their mouths. And your senegal is still gonna grow some more

 

[Jules H-T]

You could be right but he's evaded him for a good month at least while every other has been eaten. He's one of two batches of 4 so he's just invulnerable.

Yep. I had an omnipotent neon, who lasted months living in the same den as my foot long black ghost knife fish who is a fecking beast. I think the BGKF was just keeping him for a special treat, few month later, no neon.

Dante the bichir's going to love me anyway as a friend of mine is leaving for Barnsley and has requested thati take his fish off of him. 14 small fish like danios, tetras and guppies, 2 plecs and a ghost knife.

You know you might be OK with the danios, they're pretty quick and live at the surface. Not sure, don't hold me to that. The guppies are dinner though guaranteed, tetras it depends but sound like lunch. Like I said, I don't have a problem feeding live food, it just costs too much! Been thinking about a guppy tank, for the fry...

Careful with the knife fish if you become tempted to hang onto it for a while. My mate had one in a 3ft tank and it just got too big at about 8" and started attacking the small fish and shrimps. Produced a lot of waste too. The whole tank went downhill pretty quickly.

 

[HendrixTheOscar]

You could be right but he's evaded him for a good month at least while every other has been eaten. He's one of two batches of 4 so he's just invulnerable.

Yep. I had an omnipotent neon, who lasted months living in the same den as my foot long black ghost knife fish who is a fecking beast. I think the BGKF was just keeping him for a special treat, few month later, no neon.

Dante the bichir's going to love me anyway as a friend of mine is leaving for Barnsley and has requested thati take his fish off of him. 14 small fish like danios, tetras and guppies, 2 plecs and a ghost knife.

You know you might be OK with the danios, they're pretty quick and live at the surface. Not sure, don't hold me to that. The guppies are dinner though guaranteed, tetras it depends but sound like lunch. Like I said, I don't have a problem feeding live food, it just costs too much! Been thinking about a guppy tank, for the fry...

Careful with the knife fish if you become tempted to hang onto it for a while. My mate had one in a 3ft tank and it just got too big at about 8" and started attacking the small fish and shrimps. Produced a lot of waste too. The whole tank went downhill pretty quickly.

I know what you mean about the knife as i had one before for a while that weas about 7/8" and all it did was hide which really pissed me off so i just sold it in the end. Funny to watch it swimming backwards though, crazy thing! Saw one in my LFS a week or two ago which was about 2 foot long and chunky, it was HUGE!!!

Well i'll run a new thread or come back and update this one when i've had the fish for a few days some time next week. I'm looking forward to seeing what they all make of each other. I think i'll have to get more rocks etc as there's only one big piece of bog wood to hide under and if the bichir, the new plecs and the BGK all want under there it's gonna get cramped pretty quick!!

Went home at lunch, guppy's still invincible! TA DA DA DAAAAA, SUUUPPPEERRRR GUPPYYYYYY!!

 

[Naughtygirlrlw]

About 8 months ago, my neighbor got tired of having small fish and bought 4 piranhas, each about 6-7 inches. He put them in with his only remaining fish which I believe is a glow light tetra. He feeds them goldfish (he thinks it's fun ) and they go to town. 8 months later the little glow light lives on, they never bother him...Maybe he's the big boss of the tank!

 

[HendrixTheOscar]

About 8 months ago, my neighbor got tired of having small fish and bought 4 piranhas, each about 6-7 inches. He put them in with his only remaining fish which I believe is a glow light tetra. He feeds them goldfish (he thinks it's fun ) and they go to town. 8 months later the little glow light lives on, they never bother him...Maybe he's the big boss of the tank!

Definitely. The little unknown quantity, ruler of all. Like my little guppy that lords it over a 7" Bichir, 2x 5" Cats and 2x 5" Silver Dollars.

A friend of mine had red bellies at one point but they were afraid of their own shadows. Proper crap, lol. Anything you put it they ran away from. lol. fags.

I'm tempted to (depending on what happens with the new infusion of fish) remove all but the bichir and get a baby oscar to grow again. Hmmm.......maybe keep the indestructable (Al Capone) guppy though. Don't think he'd be quite so tough if there was an Oscar in there with him though, lol

 

[Teelie]

About 8 months ago, my neighbor got tired of having small fish and bought 4 piranhas, each about 6-7 inches. He put them in with his only remaining fish which I believe is a glow light tetra. He feeds them goldfish (he thinks it's fun ) and they go to town. 8 months later the little glow light lives on, they never bother him...Maybe he's the big boss of the tank!

He keeps feeding goldfish, they won't be alive much longer. Goldfish are a terrible live food for piranha. They're too fatty and will probably cause the equivalent of a heart attack.