Happy birthday Mula!

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Wasserpest

Discussion Starter · Aug 23, 2007

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Actually I have no idea when her birthday is, but I bought this African Butterfly lady over 4 years ago, and I figure she would be 5 today.

Initially alone in a 100gal tank, a few months later joined by a male companion Mulo. Moved to a 34gal pretty much neglected tank, later to a 36gal corner tank, and recently ended up again in her original home, the 100gal tank. Went through weeks without food, accidental GFI tripping and related temperature drop in the garage, without ever complaining or the hint of a smile.

Living on live flies, grasshoppers, butterflies, spiders, moths, giant mosquitos, some small livebearers once in a while, cherry shrimp that venture to the surface, and very rarely some New Life Spectrum community formula bits.

Hoping for at least 5 more happy years...

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Sowilu

· #2 · Aug 23, 2007

My she is BEAUTIFUL! Happy Birthday!!! If you had posted yesterday we would have shared b-days :hihi: ! lol

JenThePlantGeek

· #3 · Aug 23, 2007

What a gorgeous little lady! Congrats Wasser, and Happy Birthday indeed to Mula!

Speaking of birthdays, how's the other little one coming along? Aren't babies fun?

Nightshop

· #4 · Aug 23, 2007

I've always found Africa Butterfly very interesting fish, about how large is she?

Wasserpest

Discussion Starter · #5 · Aug 23, 2007

Thanks Jen, the other little lady is doing well, turned 5 months recently. Smiling a lot, keeping us up at wee hours cause she wants someone to talk to. :icon_lol:

Nightshop, she's about 4 inches, snout to tail. They look interesting, but are pretty much just hanging out all day, behaviour-wise not super exciting, save those moments when an insect hits the surface.

Got my son interested in catching flies and feeding them to the fish. The other day Mulo got spooked and did his grand carpet dive. Not sure who was more shocked, Mulo or my son. Lol.

dufus

· #6 · Aug 24, 2007

Happy birthday Mula!
lol, she's pretty neat looking, always wanted to try one.

And hang in there with your other one, once they get about 14months they get really fun, my nephew just turned 2, fun it is.

Wasserpest

Discussion Starter · #7 · Aug 22, 2008

Another year has passed, the two of them are still happily jumping after flies.

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CobraGuppy

· #8 · Aug 22, 2008

Wow, they are beautiful! I always loved how elegant they looked.

ikuzo

· #9 · Aug 23, 2008

you evil Wasserpest!
my internet is hella slow i thought the fish died when the image is half loaded

Wasserpest

Discussion Starter · #10 · Aug 23, 2008

Time to get off that 14.4k modem! :tongue:

crudnugget

· #11 · Aug 23, 2008

Can you post a big picture of them eating, like in your avatar? Cool looking fish, one that I've never heard of before!

Wasserpest

Discussion Starter · #12 · Aug 24, 2008

crudnugget said:
Can you post a big picture of them eating, like in your avatar? Cool looking fish, one that I've never heard of before!

Sure can, here you go:

(if you search for butterfly on this forum you will get some discussions about this fish)

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crudnugget

· #13 · Aug 24, 2008

Nice!

Wasserpest

Discussion Starter · #14 · Sep 17, 2009

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Another year has passed, the two are still taking care of any insects and spiders I can grab. Enjoy...

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CL

· #15 · Sep 17, 2009

Amazing. This is a very cool thread.

chonhzilla

· #16 · Sep 17, 2009

One question...for one some reason I keep thinking that they look like jumpers. Do they jump?

Wasserpest

Discussion Starter · #17 · Sep 17, 2009

chonhzilla said:
One question...for one some reason I keep thinking that they look like jumpers. Do they jump?

What made you think THAT???

Yes, they are jumpers. That's how they catch some of their prey. My tanks are all covered, but over the years I had a few incidents.

One time I had the tank open for cleaning, and went on to do some other things, when I heard a noise BEHIND the tank. First I didn't think anything about it, but some time later I wondered what that could have been. That's a 100gal tank almost flush with the wall. Well... you can imagine. I used some plastic spoons to carefully get her out of the gap and back into the tank.

CL

· #18 · Sep 18, 2009

And can we have some pics of that one in your avatar? I'm assuming that's one of yours.

Wasserpest

Discussion Starter · #19 · Sep 18, 2009

That's her. Did you check post 12? :wink:

CL

· #20 · Sep 18, 2009

Wasserpest said:
That's her. Did you check post 12? :wink:

HA! I missed that post! Beautiful!

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