chefjamesscott
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well with the backdrop, the museum artists are going to be painting a recreation of some of the surrounding displays to give it a killer look.
I added some marimo moss balls and some dwarf lily banana plants to the tank to give a bit of real plant to the tank and I might actually place the driftwood a bit differently. I spent a month studying this resident gar just to establish a symbiotic relationship with her to let her know that I am there to make her world a much better one. And she makes sure to stay near me when I am doing maintenance.
Well when I added the other fish, I sat back and just watched the tank for a good half hour or so just to get a read on how jennifer would deal with the new fish. She acted like she could care less about the needlenose gar, the knife fish or the ripsaw cats. Yet, with the arowana she seemed very curious of it and followed it around and then she did the strangest thing she caught a gold fish gave it a good chomp to disable it and then spit it out in the general direction of the arowana. I took this to be one of two things offering the arowana an easy kill or worse saying to the arow hey look bubb I can do this to you.
Well last week when I went to do a waterchange the arow showed a split fin on the bottom, I was expecting to find it gone, but thought hey ok it's been a few days all good. On saturday when I went to do the partial water change and check out the fish room tanks the arow showed much more of a split fin which means one of two things to me bad water or bad environment and since its not the water I wondered if it was just that my arow was stressed due to being in this new tank with a much bigger tank mate than it. So I again watched the tank for a good 45 minutes and what I saw kind of gave me a chill, surely jennifer the gar seemed to be stalking the arowana but not doing any acts of agression kind of like sheep herding and since there was a goodly amount of feeders in the tank I felt confident that the arow would be ok till tonight when I went to do the waterchange.
When I got there I went first to check the fish room to see if the feeders I put in the holding tanks about a week ago were still alive, yup. So I netted them all out and replaced the one tank with some minnows to see if they would do well for a few days. I have the feeder colony in my living room 70g and some at the restaurant.
So off I go to the main tank to do the water change and sure enough the arowana has a strike mark on its back and its finnage is much troubled, so I immediately netted it out and took it to the fish room to wait for the ride back home to the 140g at the restaurant. None of the other fish in the tank showed any issue.
Here are a few shots of the arow, the pic aint the best but you can see on the left top the strike mark
when I put it back in the 140 it swam to the front an watched me for a bit here it is back in the tank
here are the plants I put in
For feeders I have a colony of convicts, rosie red minnows, some platties and mollies and goldfish that I am going to be holding and pumping up with vitamins and high quality flake and frozen foods the main tank residents will eat the best that money can buy
I added some marimo moss balls and some dwarf lily banana plants to the tank to give a bit of real plant to the tank and I might actually place the driftwood a bit differently. I spent a month studying this resident gar just to establish a symbiotic relationship with her to let her know that I am there to make her world a much better one. And she makes sure to stay near me when I am doing maintenance.
Well when I added the other fish, I sat back and just watched the tank for a good half hour or so just to get a read on how jennifer would deal with the new fish. She acted like she could care less about the needlenose gar, the knife fish or the ripsaw cats. Yet, with the arowana she seemed very curious of it and followed it around and then she did the strangest thing she caught a gold fish gave it a good chomp to disable it and then spit it out in the general direction of the arowana. I took this to be one of two things offering the arowana an easy kill or worse saying to the arow hey look bubb I can do this to you.
Well last week when I went to do a waterchange the arow showed a split fin on the bottom, I was expecting to find it gone, but thought hey ok it's been a few days all good. On saturday when I went to do the partial water change and check out the fish room tanks the arow showed much more of a split fin which means one of two things to me bad water or bad environment and since its not the water I wondered if it was just that my arow was stressed due to being in this new tank with a much bigger tank mate than it. So I again watched the tank for a good 45 minutes and what I saw kind of gave me a chill, surely jennifer the gar seemed to be stalking the arowana but not doing any acts of agression kind of like sheep herding and since there was a goodly amount of feeders in the tank I felt confident that the arow would be ok till tonight when I went to do the waterchange.
When I got there I went first to check the fish room to see if the feeders I put in the holding tanks about a week ago were still alive, yup. So I netted them all out and replaced the one tank with some minnows to see if they would do well for a few days. I have the feeder colony in my living room 70g and some at the restaurant.
So off I go to the main tank to do the water change and sure enough the arowana has a strike mark on its back and its finnage is much troubled, so I immediately netted it out and took it to the fish room to wait for the ride back home to the 140g at the restaurant. None of the other fish in the tank showed any issue.
Here are a few shots of the arow, the pic aint the best but you can see on the left top the strike mark
when I put it back in the 140 it swam to the front an watched me for a bit here it is back in the tank
here are the plants I put in
For feeders I have a colony of convicts, rosie red minnows, some platties and mollies and goldfish that I am going to be holding and pumping up with vitamins and high quality flake and frozen foods the main tank residents will eat the best that money can buy
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ALTHOUGH THEYRE NOT THAT PREHISTORIC 
