billydreamer
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Feb 21, 2008
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I just wanted to share this.
This is The Highlander.
I'm not exactly sure what kind of fish he is. I got him in a 12 pack of feeder goldfish from my LFS. (Is he just a dark goldfish?) Anyway, he and all the rest of the gold fish were destined to become food for my Red Ear Slider turtle, Madmartigan about 3 months ago when I got them. I should have known better than to give him so much live food before the winter; he tends to go into a stasis like hibernation, where he's still awake, but hardly eats anything for a few months.
Anyway, I found lately that my turtle was not that happy in his tank, and I wanted to get some SW fish, it also happened that through my girlfriend, I was able to donate my turtle to a home for people with developmental disabilities to be used in a small zoo area.
When I was preparing to donate my turtle, I came to realize/remember that there was still a feeder fish in my 20 gal tank that he had never eaten, so I had to figure out what to do. I decided that he had lived a couragous life so far, and he deserved to be rewared. I bought him his own small bowl, and the smallest Whisper filter/bubbler there is. He can now live out the rest of his life, safe as can be from turtles, in his own private tank.
He was the only one to survive. There can be only one. He is: The Highlander.
This is The Highlander.
I'm not exactly sure what kind of fish he is. I got him in a 12 pack of feeder goldfish from my LFS. (Is he just a dark goldfish?) Anyway, he and all the rest of the gold fish were destined to become food for my Red Ear Slider turtle, Madmartigan about 3 months ago when I got them. I should have known better than to give him so much live food before the winter; he tends to go into a stasis like hibernation, where he's still awake, but hardly eats anything for a few months.
Anyway, I found lately that my turtle was not that happy in his tank, and I wanted to get some SW fish, it also happened that through my girlfriend, I was able to donate my turtle to a home for people with developmental disabilities to be used in a small zoo area.
When I was preparing to donate my turtle, I came to realize/remember that there was still a feeder fish in my 20 gal tank that he had never eaten, so I had to figure out what to do. I decided that he had lived a couragous life so far, and he deserved to be rewared. I bought him his own small bowl, and the smallest Whisper filter/bubbler there is. He can now live out the rest of his life, safe as can be from turtles, in his own private tank.
He was the only one to survive. There can be only one. He is: The Highlander.
