As usual I didn’t do my research and I bought one of those cute little 1.5” Cowfish to go into my 70 gallon corner tank. I started to investigate its characteristics after he started to grow rapidly large. I planned on keeping small fish in this tank because the tank is small. Well when I looked it up I found that they can reach 18” in the wild and the minimum size tank for them is a 180. I knew it wouldn’t work, but I tried placing it in my 225 with my big Queen and Triggers a Tusk and other not so friendly guys. The experiment lasted about 15 minutes before the Queen started to nip at that big fat slow moving belly. So now I’m stuck with what I thought would remain a cute little guy, which I now know turns out to be mainly a carnivore. That 1.5” male clown is starting to look more bite sized as the big creature keeps growing. It will eat every piece of food that hits the bottom, because it’s too slow moving to get it as it sinks to the bottom. I didn’t know that they were mainly carnivores, thus my new worry about those tasty looking little clowns. I have to keep Hornhead because of all of his personality and weird looking features that my wife is in love with. It’s my contention that it’s just a matter of time before my clowns become cow food. She thinks I’m just plotting too get rid of him to make her unhappy, because I’m such a brute
I want to take my clowns and get a relatively small tank where they won’t become fish bate and keep Hornhead in the 70. I know that’s small for him but I have no alternatives, and Hornhead isn’t going anywhere. I think it will adapt to the too small tank and just keep eating everything in sight. The thing is dangerous as well; it took a piece of my finger off when it was ½ this size. Now If I put my whole hand or arm in it leaves me alone. I need to convince her that my clowns are going to become Hornhead food, if in fact that will be the case. Any opinions on this situation
02/25/2007, 09:10 PM
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