Re: The hots for bubbles

["Yvan Alleau" <yalleau@OCE.ORST.EDU>]

hi eric,
i had such an experience with a female N. anomala which was facinated by
bubbles getting out of the tube from my undergravel filter. She had her
spawnin-warrior-camouflage color and was fighting every body! But nothing
was there despite bublles: no eggs, no swimmers! I think she mistook the
bubbles for eggs.
Maybe your ram is doing the same mistake or may be he is just getting stoned
with the CO2 ! He became a bubble adict! ;-) just kidding!
take care
                        FLI USA

Yvan Alleau
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97330 Corvallis, Oregon
home # 738-0606
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Oregon State University
office (Burt 222) # 737-3649, to be used wisely !
yalleau@oce.orst.edu

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Martina" <emartina@uiuc.edu>
To: "Apisto Group" <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 7:59 PM
Subject: The hots for bubbles


> Hey all,
> I have a planted tank that I inject pressurized CO2 in. I use a Eheim
> reactor. If some of you have never seen one working it causes a small
stream
> of fine bubbles to come out of it. In this tank I have (among other
things)
> three blue rams, I think all three are males, but I am not sure.
> One of the blue rams is fascinated with the bubbles. He spends all day
near
> them, looking at them, "playing" in them, or whatever he thinks he is
doing.
> He only leaves the area to eat. He has been like this for months. The
really
> funny thing is the other day I was straightening something out that was by
> the reactor and whenever I got too close to the bubbles the blue ram
> attacked my hand! There are no eggs there, and never have been. Maybe he
> thinks the bubbles are fry swimming around, or maybe he has just declared
> that area as his. It either way I find it very amusing!
>
> Eric
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Eric Martina
> University of Illinois
> Electrical Engineering
>
>
>
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