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DiscusIt'sWhats4DinneR · 05-01-2008, 09:26 AM

i never thought much of it.

but now I do, and i will share it with you.

tuesday i went to the lfs and got 3 amano shrimp, and 2 FLYING foxes.
anyway, got em home. stuck them in my 10 gallon quarentine tank. (this tank is ghetto. has the wal mart 10 dollar filter,(no complaints here) a LID made from plexi scraps, and it uses the mini fridge underneath it as a HEATER. (actually works quite well)

but that is all besides the point.

i went to check on them tonight a few minutes ago, and only one was in the tank! the other one..Escaped!! apparently he had a bit of business on the outs to handle. i dont know. the tank was covered except for a small gap about an inch wide. by the time i found him he was all dried up and linty..

i guess he would have rather died than spent the rest of his life eating algae. after all i cant blame em... but my lfs has gotten kinda sketchy and i dont expect il be able to find anymore of these guys for a while. i got the last 2.
its too bad, i guess a different guy is managing the fish over there. they dont take care of their tanks near as well as they used to

they brought in a few handfulls of discus that i picked out 4 from. a week later they were eating and healthy in my tank at home, i went to the store and there was about 15 of them, DEAD wrapped around the filter tube and laying on the gravel..

05-01-2008, 09:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
DiscusIt'sWhats4DinneR Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (2) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Fresno, CA Posts: 565	do you know why they call it a Flying fox? i never thought much of it. but now I do, and i will share it with you. tuesday i went to the lfs and got 3 amano shrimp, and 2 FLYING foxes. anyway, got em home. stuck them in my 10 gallon quarentine tank. (this tank is ghetto. has the wal mart 10 dollar filter,(no complaints here) a LID made from plexi scraps, and it uses the mini fridge underneath it as a HEATER. (actually works quite well) but that is all besides the point. i went to check on them tonight a few minutes ago, and only one was in the tank! the other one..Escaped!! apparently he had a bit of business on the outs to handle. i dont know. the tank was covered except for a small gap about an inch wide. by the time i found him he was all dried up and linty.. i guess he would have rather died than spent the rest of his life eating algae. after all i cant blame em... but my lfs has gotten kinda sketchy and i dont expect il be able to find anymore of these guys for a while. i got the last 2. its too bad, i guess a different guy is managing the fish over there. they dont take care of their tanks near as well as they used to they brought in a few handfulls of discus that i picked out 4 from. a week later they were eating and healthy in my tank at home, i went to the store and there was about 15 of them, DEAD wrapped around the filter tube and laying on the gravel..