briztoon Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 Well these little guys are supposed to be timid, peacefull cichlids. And the rule of 'if it fits in it's mouth it's food' certainly doesn't apply to these guys. I have a pair, not a true pair as they are juveniles, but definately male and female. Over the last three weeks I have lost 4 rummynose tetras, 2 dwarf pencilfish and an otocinclus. I wasn't sure why, but I did sometimes find the two keyholes munching on what was left of a carcas when I came home from work. Sometimes I don't even find a carcas, I just know a fish is missing. Well I set myself up on the lounge today with the laptop to veg out watching TV and the Keyhole tank. After a while I turned the TV off and just focused on watching the keyholes. They are ambushing my tetras. The tank is 24 inches by 12 inches by 24 inches and is moderately planted, with some small logs. There is one corner of thick foliage and the largest log, which has a cave on the back side of it. They are getting up high in the foliage and darting out and hitting, or grabing onto a tetra as it swims in close to the leaves. They also try and hunt the tetras through the open tank, but while fast, they rarely get close to another fish. Anyway, once they injure a tetra, that's it, it like a shark feeding frenzy untill something scares them. It took them the best part of 3 hours, but they eventually got one tetra. The pencilfish are much faster, but I have lost two of them so I guess not fast enough. Not happy Jan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dobbin4 Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 Can't say I've known the keyholes to be like that!! but you saw it for yourself !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petshopdude Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 its a fish eat fish world out there mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citypainter Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 With all that protein, they are bound to spawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briztoon Posted September 17, 2007 Author Share Posted September 17, 2007 With all that protein, they are bound to spawn. I don't think they're big enough yet. They aren't yet half the size of the adults in my community tank. They are in a small 34 gall tall biotope tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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