Pencil fish

[CC1071]

I am interested to find out how efficient Nannostomus trifasciatus is at eating Algae. Has anybody had any experience with them?

[NaRcOsIs]

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On 5/16/2003 1:38:11 AM

I am interested to find out how efficient Nannostomus trifasciatus is at eating Algae. Has anybody had any experience with them?
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ive got 9 of them in my 4 feet tank. havent seen them eating algae . []

[akoh]

Understand from Gan, He is expecting Coral Red for this shipment! Check it out !

Safe Diving !
akoh

[NaRcOsIs]

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On 5/16/2003 8:51:39 AM

Understand from Gan, He is expecting Coral Red for this shipment! Check it out !

Safe Diving !
akoh
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yesyes... i heard abt that too. but i think i another 2-3 weeks time. Anyone knows abt the price?

[lvanilla]

They will sometime nibble a bit on algae or decay plants but prefer food.

Hope gan will be selling at a good price as one of mine coral pencil commit sicide by leaping out of my tank.[]

[joe]

shd be around S$20 each [:]

[lvanilla]

Hope Gan will inform us when his shipment arrive! Cheers[]

[sm]

Hi,

I have a 5 pencil fish. A couple of them seemed to have some red marks at the tail end and at the back fin below.

Is this normal?

The other strange behaviour is that two of the pencil fish seems to be either fighting or rubbing their head and tail together.

Not too sure why this is so? Anyone care to shed some light on this matter?

Thanks.
SM

[lvanilla]

Its normal to have the red marking. Pencil fish mah...

They are just having fun with each other. Mine also fool around a lot. []

[Simon]

sm, certain species of pencilfish do have red markings, like the 3-lined/3-striped/dwarf pencilfish

[benny]

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On 5/18/2003 9:40:08 PM

Hi,

I have a 5 pencil fish. A couple of them seemed to have some red marks at the tail end and at the back fin below.

Is this normal?

The other strange behaviour is that two of the pencil fish seems to be either fighting or rubbing their head and tail together.

Not too sure why this is so? Anyone care to shed some light on this matter?

Thanks.
SM
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sm

This thread may be of interest to you.

3 line pencil fish

As for the behaviour, it's quite normal.

Cheers,