NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/rec/aquaria/8889

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From: [e-mail] (Scott Colbath)
Newsgroups: rec.aquaria
Subject: Neons may be late night snack !!
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Date: 17 Nov 92 17:07:02 GMT
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Well....I picked up a Seabay Mono last Saturday along with  a couple more Neon
Tetras. I -had- a total of 6 Neons Saturday night. One started looking fairly
bad after being in the tank for a few hours. I went to bed and it was by
itself, the other 5 were in a school. When I got up and went to check on the
fish, it was gone. I pulled all the decorations out of the tank expecting to
find a dead Neon in there somewhere but found nothing. I attributed this to the
possibility of other fish in the tank picking at the corpse leaving only a
barely visible skeleton (which I didn't find either). This morning, the wife
calls me at work to report another missing Neon. Could the Seabay be munching
on these Neons? It never seems to bother them at all. I thought the Neons were
too big for the Seabay to eat. The Seabay also does not look like it has
ingested anything. I would think I might see a bulge in this normally thin
fish. In addition, how much can this fish eat??? Two Neons in three days?
Sounds like a bit much, considering I am feeding all my fish quite well to
start. Any comments?

BTW: The Seabay has to be one of the coolest fish I have seen in a freshwater
tank next to Angels and Discus.

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Scott Colbath
Stratus Computer
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