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Date Posted: 12:14:24 04/05/02 Fri
Author: Nancy
Subject: Re: elephant nose
In reply to: someone 's message, "Re: elephant nose" on 15:10:19 06/02/01 Sat

About a month ago I decided to get into fish again after several years,when I bought my 30 gal.it came with some fish in it,mostly goldfish,I gave the goldfish to my son,and went to my local pet store in search of new fish,I also bought a elephant nose,which now live's with {2 irredecsnt sharks,dragon fish,oscar,male beta,catfish,so far my elephant nose is doing great his most like roomy is the dragonfish they are always together,my elephant nose like's to hide in rocks so you can't see him so i replaced the rock with a small plastic beta tank,he hides in there but we can still see him ,so if you decide to try it again try doing what I did I think it works great.
>himself. He was pretty smart, but seemed lonely. When
>I bought the tank,rocks temperature, filter, and fish
>at 12:45 at night in a city that was 90 min from where
>I lived. I saw the fish and hAD to buy it. Big
>mistake, for someone who didn't know much about fish.
>It was a walmart. After 1 1/2 months, I decided it
>was time to move on to a 29 galon, which was a
>mistake. I bought, put together,and put the fish in
>all in the same night. The elephantnose faught like
>the last time and pulled through. He was a tough
>little guy. After I got the tank going, one trip to
>walmart was bad. I bought like 15 fish in one day, and
>exautic ones to. After a while I realized the
>elephant nose was shy and looked like he was goinh to
>comit scuicide. In a matter of days I found a pink
>dead elephantnose. I went through 2 more elephants
>before I stopped. I am planning on getting a new one
>later. This is what I learned about this amazing
>fish.............
>1. It would be good if-
>10 galon with another elephant
>10 galon tank with a baby whale
>10 gallon thank with 1 or 2 platties.
>Elephant liked to be loved and like all the
>attention... I think they die from depression. If you
>get one of these fish make sure you keep the temp at
>around 81, they do better in warm watter, and don't
>buy them in the winter or from walmart, these fish are
>caught in the wild and don't do good in the winter,
>bearly survive in the wild, and after getting shipped
>around will probebly die. These fish also get
>diseases easly, and Walmart is a disease farm, order
>one at www.aquariumfish.net or
>www.fishsuplies.com..................you can only
>learn from this fish by experiance-maby this will
>prevent some deaths?

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