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Date Posted: 11:24:35 04/10/01 Tue
Author: Rex Spencer
Subject: Re: elephant nose
In reply to: etienne 's message, "Re: elephant nose" on 03:05:31 09/24/00 Sun

>The elephant nose do live together when they are
>young, if you buy (a young)one who is together with
>other elephant nose's in the store they will get
>lonely if they are in a new tank, they will get
>stressed without the group he/she was into. Because
>off all that he/she will not eat and die.
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>> > I think my elephant nose starved to death. I was
>> told
>> > to feet it frozen blood worm and frozen brine
>> shrimp.
>> > It got weak and could not keep upright in the
>tank.
>> > Do they not eat frozen food? What should I have
>been
>> > feeding.
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>> Elephant nose (Gnathonemus petersi) are very
>difficult
>> fish to obtain healthy. Mine does fine on a diet of
>> frozen blood worms and brine shrimp. It does not eat
>> plants as an earlier post claimed. My aquarium is
>> 55gal. and heavily planted and I have never seen the
>> elephant nose eat any plants. (or the zuchini,
>carrot,
>> ect. that I feed to my vegatable loving fish) In
>> order to find one that will live in your care it is
>> important to scope it in the pet store for a week or
>> two and ask to see it eat. If it is off its food in
>> the store it will most likely die in your care.
>NOTE:
>> these fish are jumpers. It WILL jump out of your
>tank
>> if it is not covered. An earlier post also claimed
>> that these fish will get lonely without their kind.
>> This is absolutly not true. As adults they are very
>> aggresive to their own kind. I have seen juveniles
>> school but when I tried to introduce a new EN to my
>> aquarium my adult EN beat it without mercy. These
>> fish also have an organ that enables them to deliver
>> electric shock and may enable them to navigate or
>find
>> food in the dark as they are nocturnal. They should
>> never be kept with other electric fishes. What I
>> would most like to impress on anyone wishing to own
>> one of these fish is its curiosity and intelegence.
>> This is a very smart animal as evidenced by its large
>> brain to body oxygen use. (almost triple the ratio of
>> humans and ten times that of other fish) It is , I
>> belive, one of the most abused of all fish. Most
>sold
>> are doomed to starvation by the uninformed owner who
>> tries to feed flake or pellet food or die on the pet
>> store floors when they envariably jump. Also these
>> fish are "scaleless" meaning their scales are very
>> small. They are suseptible to parasites namley ich.
>> Unfortunatly they cannot be treated with the usual
>> malachite green. There are medications but they are
>> expensive and hard to find. A large heavily planted
>> aquarium is highly suggested for these fish. If they
>> will not eat when you first get one try feeding
>> tubifex that have been rinsed three times daily for a
>> few days. (this hopefully removes the parasites and
>> feces from the digestive tract) If you do not have
>> plants get some drift wood or PVC pipe for the fish
>to
>> hide in during the day. There is an abundance of
>> information on the web. For anyone interested try a
>> search under the scientific name. "Gnathonemus
>> petersii". Feel free to email me with any questions
>> or comments.
Hello ive just got my second EN wich is fully grown,he took to my home made 32 (uk)gallon collum tank as soon as he left the bag. He had a good look around all his new hideing places but he seems to like being out in the open 24 hours a day moor active at night though. MY first one hid strate away, Two weeks later i changed the water and he came out and died in a few hour , he was a yong one .Anyway ive now got wight spot in the tank, do ihave to give a sepate treatment to all my other fish or will the treatment for the EN do the lot ?

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  • Re: elephant nose -- Brenda G., 18:25:11 01/23/02 Wed
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