VIOLENT, HORNY DIMIDIOCHROMIS COMPRESSICEPS

[SGypsyMermaid]

what am i going to to with him? he already got kicked out of the utaka/hap tank for hell-raising and trying to hyperdominate--now he's doing the same thing in the 90 gal. mbuna tank. the only place that i have left that he can possibly go is the 29 gal. brackish tank with the ropefish, jade gobies, mystery cichlid(sunfish?), bumblebee catfish, and a cory. he's probably gonna go head-to-head with the mystery cichlid--or maybe the gobies which are about five inches long and two inches thick will teach him some manners. i hate to lose him, but i'm running out of places to put him.

[chennes]

Maybe it's time to get another tank? That would make it your tank number 182, now, right :) ??

Chris

[SGypsyMermaid]

yeah--you're probably right--but it would only be tank number 12, thank you very much, chennes. there are some folks in brooklyn who offered me a 70 gal. at a really good price--but where to put it? i guess if i really got busy organizing and unpacking, i might be able to squeeze it in somewhere...my father is going to shoot me.

[Boilermaker]

And Debbie is going to shoot me! when she noticed I was building a stand for a 29g, and I have a six tank stand on the way(supposively). I believe her comment was I'm surrounded by fish tanks :shock: Do you have a basement S.Gypsy?

[SGypsyMermaid]

lol--most of my tanks are in the basement. i only have one upstairs with my dad's tanks. whatever i do--it's gotta be down here. i wouldn't dare try to put anything else upstairs! my dad's comment was: "you turned the basement into an aquarium!" :roll:

[Boilermaker]

First thing I noticed when I moved here was no basements or garages in the older homes, what were the utards thinkin? I can see the no basements because the whole valley was built on a lake bed ( Lake Bonneville) but the garages? anyways I have neither.

[SGypsyMermaid]

ooooh, that's rough--guess i should count my blessings.

[ferdelance]

i am curious, but this actually a serious question. Has anyone heard of giving African cichlids prozac? Believe it or not , aquaculturists put prozac in the water to induce clams to breed. it would be an interesting experiment to use for a violent fish calculating the dose would be difficult, but SSRI s are relatively benign drugs so you would be unlikely to cause harm.

Amateur pharmacologist :idea: :?: :)

[CichlidPete]

Wow, now I have seen it all. SOMEONE ELSE telling SGM to get another tank! Does that seem backwards to anyone else out there :twisted:

[SGypsyMermaid]

ohhhh suuure, pete--join in with the mermaid-bashing :? :rofl: :? i've been real good--i've only suggested additional tanks when it's absolutely necessary. i don't know what you guys are talking about :shock:

ferdelance--how would you administer the drug to just one fish? i seem to remember reading about some weird uses for prozac in aquariums, but i think that that might be just a little too drastic for me. :D

i think that the compressiceps is mostly annoyed because everytime that he tries to do his head-down-you-can't-see-me move on a fish that's beneath him, one of the mbunas blows it by swimming over to see what he's lookin' at!

[ferdelance]

Dear gypsy mermaid

If you are at all interested in trying prozac on your fish I would be glad to calculate an estimated dose-I agree this sounds weird but better living through chemistry

ferdie

[SGypsyMermaid]

ferdelance--thanks for the offer, but i think i'll pass on that one. :D ..i'll figure out something.

[SGypsyMermaid]

i put him back in the utaka/hap tank which is now a 70 gal. tank, and so far he is behaving--hope it lasts.