diffgirl Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Well I just couldnt stop laughing last night when I saw what I saw in our Jaguars tank! It all came about when we had a tank shift and rearange about two weeks ago. We have or jags tank with mum dad and the bubs, and we have a convicts tank with two mums and two dads and two sets of bubs. Well in the shift we had to get all the bubs out of the tanks while we moved the tanks around to make room for the new big tank, then once everything was where it needed to got back in they went. Now here is the funny thing, when I was watching the jags (keeping in mind they hate the cons and they were all housed together as juvis, but the war became huge once they all got to breeding age so were seperated never to meet again) low and behold, casually chewwing on some algae right next to all the jag babies is a little pink convict baby! And sure as I thought I was seeing things, closer inspection determined that no, it is true, the convicts have some how infultrated the jags domain, mascarading as their own LOL. The best bit is that the jag mum does the round up when we get too close to their tank and sure enough Mum comes along after a while and sucks him up and spits him out out of harms way! So I thought it was some thing I had to share, and I cant wait to see what happens as it grows up, this poor little fish is going to think it is a jag, but what are the rest of them going to think, I'd say as it gets big enough to tell the difference, the others will notice, what do you think, LOL. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 :lol: Good on her for freely adopting 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropheus Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Thats pretty cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpidersWeb Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 haha thats awesome Once its visible to the Jag that it is a convict, it'll likely get eaten. I beleive young convicts are the Jags staple diet in the wild. If it doesn't it'll be even more hilarious hehe I'd be keen to grow out some Jags if you have some available Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diffgirl Posted October 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2007 haha thats awesome Once its visible to the Jag that it is a convict, it'll likely get eaten. I beleive young convicts are the Jags staple diet in the wild. If it doesn't it'll be even more hilarious hehe I'd be keen to grow out some Jags if you have some available Im with you there, but I'm so curious to see how it goes I am going to leave it in there as long as I can, but any sign of danger it will be getting whisked out straight away, this little one deserves to survive growing up with the meanest of mean! Funny thing or most ironic thing is that we have our breeding cons that qutie often get their young taken off them and fed to others, the last lot got eaten by the mountain minnows of all things, that was our smart idea thinking that they would be safe till their new home was ready because the other cons were chowing down. Well once they get a bit bigger I will put up some pics, at the moment the ones I have taken are hard to see exactly what is going on, it is better to have a first hand view for now LOL. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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