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Originally Posted by Delphinus
No - gigantea's are really well behaved compared to their haddoni cousins (or tapetum for that matter  )
I had a mandarin who would sleep at night under my brown gigantea..
I had my brown guy for close to 5 years, never lost any livestock to it .. I've had my green guy now for 4 years, and still nothing. However when I had haddoni many years ago, I'd lose anything that would touch it (snails included, it would spit out empty snails shells every couple of weeks..)
I just tried my hand at two baby raccoon butterflies, barely 1.5" in length. Sadly, I lost both within days. (Don't really want to talk about this actually.. my life sucks.) I'd say let's not go there, but I do bring it up because the fact that my green carpet in the tank they were in could easily have scavenged them but didn't .. there's no doubt in my mind that were it haddoni instead I would not have found anything of them.
I'm sure it's not unheard of that they eat a fish by accident but of the several that I've tried, they have all been planktivores. Their ideal food size is mysis and they'll eat up mysis like crazy (well, when healthy anyhow), but larger pieces are usually shunned. |
Ok thanks...I just realized that the one I was looking at is a Haddoni I think though! Actually I am very sure it is. So I will stay away from that one. I lost enough fish to my small carpet, don't need a huge one that eats fish!
Too bad because its such a beautiful BRIGHT lime green.
I guess I should double check the species, but I think it must be Haddoni.