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Posted by Derek Benson on May 7, 2005, 6:18 am
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>So, yes fish jump for no reason. They jump for food, and they jump for
>fun. But IME they jump most frequently when they don't like the water.
Yeah, it's probably all that salt in there ;-)
-Derek
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Posted by Elaine T on May 7, 2005, 1:54 pm
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Derek Benson wrote:
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>>So, yes fish jump for no reason. They jump for food, and they jump for
>>fun. But IME they jump most frequently when they don't like the water.
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> Yeah, it's probably all that salt in there ;-)
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> -Derek
What??? They're not marine fish? ;-)
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Posted by bassett on May 6, 2005, 12:56 am
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Elaine wrote,, Oscars aren't known to be jumpers in general.
There are generally no aquatic parasites living dry on our carpets
Lady , your bloody paranoid about Parasites and chemicals.
And you have got to be joking, hold a nice fat worm 3 inches above the
water, "Say UP" and watch the buggers jump for the Worm. But it only works
if you say "UP"
But your Oscar will be OK, just give him a good feed of some nice feeder
fish. He's bored, give him something to play with. I had a Ping-pong ball
Selastic'ed to a bit of string attached to a rock, when I had Oscars, and
they would spend hours bashing the shit out of it.
bassett
> CSJackso@gmail.com wrote:
>> I hava a young (5 inches) oscar alone in a 75 gallon tank. I have in
>> there a UGF and a power filter, and the oscar somehow managed to jump
>> through the power filter hole a few minutes before I got home from
>> classes. I generally feed him three times a day, so I checked, didn't
>> see him and looked around on the floor and found him still alive and
>> returned him to the tank.
>>
>> The concern-
>>
>> I patched up the hole with a bit of screen and dropprd the water level
>> several inches, so all is well in that regard. what I am wondering is
>> whether I should go ahead and move him to a smaller tank in case he
>> comes down with something from the ordeal. I have a 10 gallon
>> quarentine tank available which, luckily enough I was fishless cycling
>> to get a betta for, and over the past few days have noted the ammonia
>> and nitrites at zero, therefore the water is relatively stable and if
>> he does not need medicine, this won't hurt the cycle in this tank at
>> all.
>>
>> I am new to aqarium keeping, although I have read a lot on the topic,
>> but nothing I have read addressed care for recently untanked fish.
>>
> He'll be fine if he wasn't out of the water for too long. There are
> generally no aquatic parasites living dry on our carpets. ;-) I have
> lost jumpers to gill damage on occasion, but there's nothing to do for
> that. Leave him in the 75 he's used to so he doesn't get stressed any
> further.
>
> Have you tested the water to see if there's anything that could have made
> him jump, like high pH or ammonia? Oscars aren't known to be jumpers in
> general. Also, it would be good to put fresh carbon in your filter in
> case there was something in your tapwater from the last water change that
> he didn't like.
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Posted by Elaine T on May 6, 2005, 2:49 am
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bassett wrote:
> Elaine wrote,, Oscars aren't known to be jumpers in general.
> There are generally no aquatic parasites living dry on our carpets
>
> Lady , your bloody paranoid about Parasites and chemicals.
>
There is no need to curse at me. And I'm not the one who is so paranoid
about chemicals he thinks they can never be removed from a fishtank.
> And you have got to be joking, hold a nice fat worm 3 inches above the
> water, "Say UP" and watch the buggers jump for the Worm. But it only works
> if you say "UP"
> But your Oscar will be OK, just give him a good feed of some nice feeder
> fish. He's bored, give him something to play with. I had a Ping-pong ball
> Selastic'ed to a bit of string attached to a rock, when I had Oscars, and
> they would spend hours bashing the shit out of it.
> bassett
Now, arowanas, hatchetfish, archers, shrimp, some killies, danios,
swordtails - THOSE are jumpers and climbers. Just try keeping an adult
arowana in a tank without a BIG rock weighting down the cover. Or not
getting the cover tight on a hatchetfish or swordtail tank. Oscars...we
had tanks and tanks of them and I never once found one on the fishroom
floor.
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Posted by bassett on May 7, 2005, 8:10 am
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Well it proves one thing, I,m not in your Killfile.
And I,ve got no idea what an " arowanas " is. Once again you fail to see,
that we don,t have the range of fish , that you enjoy, simply because our
quarantine laws are a lot better then the non existent laws you have.
In your part of the world, you can keep what you like, providing your not
caught smuggling it into the country. Once it's "IN" your legal. Doesn't
work like that here. If your caught with something , that is not an excepted
import. and everything has to go into a quarantine station for a fixed
period of time. It's taken, confiscated, and unless you have import papers
or quarantine certificates, you not only loose whatever it was, but you get
fined or jailed .
And we do the same thing with illegal imigrants, that attempt to land on the
Northern parts of the coast. They get locked up and then deported.
bassett
> bassett wrote:
>> Elaine wrote,, Oscars aren't known to be jumpers in general.
>> There are generally no aquatic parasites living dry on our carpets
>>
>> Lady , your bloody paranoid about Parasites and chemicals.
>>
> There is no need to curse at me. And I'm not the one who is so paranoid
> about chemicals he thinks they can never be removed from a fishtank.
>
>> And you have got to be joking, hold a nice fat worm 3 inches above the
>> water, "Say UP" and watch the buggers jump for the Worm. But it only
>> works if you say "UP"
>> But your Oscar will be OK, just give him a good feed of some nice
>> feeder fish. He's bored, give him something to play with. I had a
>> Ping-pong ball Selastic'ed to a bit of string attached to a rock, when I
>> had Oscars, and they would spend hours bashing the shit out of it.
>>
>> bassett
>
> Now, arowanas, hatchetfish, archers, shrimp, some killies, danios,
> swordtails - THOSE are jumpers and climbers. Just try keeping an adult
> arowana in a tank without a BIG rock weighting down the cover. Or not
> getting the cover tight on a hatchetfish or swordtail tank. Oscars...we
> had tanks and tanks of them and I never once found one on the fishroom
> floor.
>
> --
> Elaine T __
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> rec.aquaria.* FAQ http://faq.thekrib.com
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>fun. But IME they jump most frequently when they don't like the water.