"Cardman" wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 22:54:10 +0100, John
wrote:

Hello.

I have a slightly strange question.

Hey, with fish just about every question is strange.

For example my Red Eyed Tetras went down one in number quite a few
weeks ago, when the largest Tetra suffered an unusual death.

The thing about Red Eyed Tetras is that they are territorial, which
means that they are forever defending their ground by removing a few
scales from their neighbouring Red Eyed Tetras.

Since these Tetras also like to group together now and again for
various reasons, with the most obvious one being night, then the
choice of defending your territory or grouping together can be a bit
different for each Tetra. That helps to remove yet more scales.

Now this Tetra that died was the largest of all these Tetras, which
means that he owned the largest territory and had the most fights with
his neighbours in protecting this territory.

This fighting is the only explanation I can think of to explain the
bubble that appeared out the left side of this Tetra, looking just
like an air bubble.

I noticed that for a couple of days, but just before looking into what
it was I noticed that it had vanished. And so this Tetra lived on
happily for one more day before it went belly up.
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Enjoyed the Red-Eyed tetra story )

regards
NetMax

Good luck.

Cardman
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