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Posted by on September 20, 2005, 7:23 pm
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>On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:11:51 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Pattle"
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>>Put three small rummy nosed tetras in my community tank yesterday. They
>>lasted about thirty seconds as they were immediately taken as a feed by the
>>angel fish (has shown no aggressive tendencies, not even fin nipping,
>>before).
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>I would never obtain an Angel Fish ever again. When these as you have
>just discovered are the Jack the Ripper of the fish world. Alas people
>like their unusual shape, where Angel Fish like anything that is shiny
>or colourful. Where Neon Tetras are their number one murder victim.
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>The only good points about Angel Fish are that they are fairly slow
>and quite dumb. This means that most fish of a suitable size can
>escape these jaws of death.
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>I even once had some larger Neon Tetras play a good game of dodge the
>killer blow of the Angel Fish. But younger Neon Tetras stand no
>chance.
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I have a perfect angel fish solution... breed them ;)
Keep the smaller ones in the community tank - ironically they seem to
'grow up' tollerating smaller fish (or at least mine do... my smallest
is actually afraid of my neons... that said, it's 10-1 outnumbered too
:P) and i've got some medium sized ones in my tank now that seem to
ignore the smaller fish .. when they get bigger than about 2" though
they go in the discus tank and it becomes an even playing field (or at
least, they suddenly become the small fish! :D)... then they breed, i
get ickle angelf fish again and the cycle begins again ;)
that said, i've only ever completed one cycle like this ... ;)
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