Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdahl!ames!hc!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Moving
Message-ID: <2480@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 88 23:00:58 GMT
References: <436@lakesys.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Well, let's see.  If it were MY black ghost knife fish I'd probably
do this or something like this:

Buy two plastic garbage pails. Put them in the bathtub of
the new abode and run water through them for 12 - 24 hours
(I'm paranoid and want to leech all those wierd plastic
compounds out).

Use 1 as a moving tank and 1 as a holding tank.

Put a heater in the one that is in the
new abode, and an aerator.  The fish can live
in here until you get the new tank
set up.

Use the other one as a moving tank. Siphon off water from 
the tank the fish is now in, place the fish in it, put
the thing in the car, set the car heater on high, drive
to new abode, move fish to other garbage paiil.

When you have your new tank set up move him in.


I probably dont need to tell you how difficly ghost knives
can be. They have a 'sonar' system like mormyrids, and are
very sensitive to electrolyte balance.  They also like
real softe acid water, which most people don't provide
(although them seem to do ok in spite of that)

The natives of the Amazon believe the sould of their
ancestors inhabit these fish, and try whenever possible
to prevent collectors from taking them.

-- 
               "It's too dark to put my legs in my munitions"
                          richard@gryphon.CTS.COM 
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