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Re: Playing with fire...........DID THAT..KNOW BETTER

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Posted by SALLIE_KEEPER on November 14, 2002 at 04:37:45:

In Reply to: Re: Playing with fire........... posted by Dannie on November 13, 2002 at 20:14:23:

:::I'm just wondering if anyone has ever kept some of these species together. Thanks!

Yes, I mixed a pleco, with a fiddler crab and paddletail(they are same size as FBN) newts. I had THOUGHT they would help keep the tank clean.. As long as it was not a danger to the newts, I thought all would go fine..The crab was twice the size of the newts..too big to get eaten..the pleco had spines on its back to keep it out of the mouth of a newts...WRONG

MAN WAS I WRONG!!!! I the crab lasted a week, came in one morning & the newts were having a feeding frenzy. the big female was really fat with crab.. The pleco lasted only 3 days..I saw a strange tail in the mouth of the male. Guess the spines were not a problem.. I have also tried big apple snails...just to have them pulled out of the shell. Ghost shrimp...gone in a day..AND I WILL NOT EVEN START WITH TINY LITTLE FROGS>...tiny newt food.

I have learned NEVER mix animals with newts. I am just glad that the newts were never hurt in all of this..

Harpy


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