Elephant Nose and Baby Whale
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Elephant Nose and Baby Whale
More fragile fish include Elephant Noses - Gnathonemus petersi and Baby Whales - Petrocephalus bovei. African fishes from the family Mormyridae, these are night feeders and are hard to provide for in the aquarium.
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6/10/2007 11:52:28 PMElisabeth said:
Elephant Nose - They are easy enough to keep if you do your research and are careful not to treat them with the usual aquarium meds. They are scaleless. Formalyn will strip them off their skin and kill them if your tank gets a whitespot infestation. They are intollerant of salt..so do not salt your tank. The cannot cope with metals in their tank. Particularily ferrus. Should you get whitespot..treat with a Malachite Green, Methelen Blue Acriflavine treatment such as Aquamaster Multi Cure, at Half Dose and raise the temp and air rate the tank.
Mine are out and about day and night, and quite interactive with me.
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