| Title: | Fish as Pets Conference |
| Notice: | For Sale, Seek, and Swap use note 23 |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Fri Feb 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1696 |
| Total number of notes: | 11157 |
Hi
Ive been running a marine tank now for 5 months and
what fun it is.
A couple of month's ago I bought a cleaner shrimp
as I always enjoyed watching them in the fish shops
The original shrimp I brought had a parasite attached
to its side which I did not notice until I got him home
and put him in the tank.
I imeadeatly rung the shop who said "no problem" bring him back
when hes dead !
Well the shrimp lasted a week and spent most of his time hiding
and towards the end of the week stopped eating.
I returned the dead shrimp to the shop and picked up another one
half expecting to go through the same process again but from the
out set this shrimp was different he was almost tame
at feeding time he runs out from behind a rock and grabs as much
food as he can and almost fights the other fish for it. I dont have
meny fish a couple of damsels and clown.
I now feed him separtely by hand and he's quite at home searching over
my skin for parasites and things.
my original perception was that most shrimps were hard to keep shy
difficult to feed and night active
mine is almost the opposite to this.
Richard
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1696.1 | FRIENDLY SHRIMP! | POLAR::HIRSEKORN | Mon Jun 02 1997 17:56 | 12 | |
RICHARD,
That is simply fascinating . Thankyou for sharing this oddity with
the rest of us . It was truely amazing .
ROCK LOBSTER
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