- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
I purchased a trio of Squami's, 1 male and 2 female and couldnt be happier with them. Super excited about them in the tank and they really carry alot of personality in the tank.
So, one day i come home and stare at my tank, As i always do for about 5-20 mins after walking into my door. I look around and all the fish are looking at me with their tails wagging for some food (i swear they are like wet dogs with fins sometimes, except they don;t play catch very well).
All, but one.... and its my Male squami, Billy the Pimp from Utah (multiple wives.....oh nm..). I frantically look around the tank and he's nowhere to be seen, then spot a motionless fin in the corner of my eye and go in for a closer examination. He lay there not moving floating in the flow of the water in a hole in the rockwork.
Oh Crap... i think to myself...a tear falling down my cheek. So i roll up my sleeve and about to reach in to see if i can get him, preparing my Eulogy, and from underneath him comes out the notorious Johnny "Blue Legs", the infamous blue leg hemit from downtown. Looking at him in complete horror, the first thing that came to my mind was that the notorious small time gangster hermit Iced Billy for talkin smack about his mother or something..... So i reach for my shotgun slowly while his back was turned. Then out of nowhere Billy wiggles and swims away!
Heh, sorry was a little bored and had some free time.... Anyways I've noticed these guys play Possum around animals that are way too close. The females have been doing it around my clownfish when he was swimming too close. The male and females have done it a few times as they were perched in the rockwork in a hole and a hermit moved by them. Everytime they do that my heart skips a beat too...
The wierd thing is they have never done it around my McKosker, who always swims with them in a mini school, nor do they do it with themselves.
First time i've heard of squami's playing dead in all my reading of them and heard they are quite the bully's in a tank too sometimes. Just thought i would share the experience with you all.
So, one day i come home and stare at my tank, As i always do for about 5-20 mins after walking into my door. I look around and all the fish are looking at me with their tails wagging for some food (i swear they are like wet dogs with fins sometimes, except they don;t play catch very well).
All, but one.... and its my Male squami, Billy the Pimp from Utah (multiple wives.....oh nm..). I frantically look around the tank and he's nowhere to be seen, then spot a motionless fin in the corner of my eye and go in for a closer examination. He lay there not moving floating in the flow of the water in a hole in the rockwork.
Oh Crap... i think to myself...a tear falling down my cheek. So i roll up my sleeve and about to reach in to see if i can get him, preparing my Eulogy, and from underneath him comes out the notorious Johnny "Blue Legs", the infamous blue leg hemit from downtown. Looking at him in complete horror, the first thing that came to my mind was that the notorious small time gangster hermit Iced Billy for talkin smack about his mother or something..... So i reach for my shotgun slowly while his back was turned. Then out of nowhere Billy wiggles and swims away!
Heh, sorry was a little bored and had some free time.... Anyways I've noticed these guys play Possum around animals that are way too close. The females have been doing it around my clownfish when he was swimming too close. The male and females have done it a few times as they were perched in the rockwork in a hole and a hermit moved by them. Everytime they do that my heart skips a beat too...
The wierd thing is they have never done it around my McKosker, who always swims with them in a mini school, nor do they do it with themselves.
First time i've heard of squami's playing dead in all my reading of them and heard they are quite the bully's in a tank too sometimes. Just thought i would share the experience with you all.
