Video Of Dovii
#21
Posted 20 June 2008 - 08:44 PM
I have a female at the moment that is more agro then any male i have ever kept. I have seen some BIG wimpy dovii and other little 3"ers that are complete terrors. All comes down to the individual fish.
#22
Posted 20 June 2008 - 10:03 PM
Dont really care if I offend. Thats just plain stupid. The Pbass we have at work gets so much crap from tosser customers teasing her putting their hands up to make it look like food.
Yes I know Dovii are very agro, but why tease them to make them more agro? Doesnt make sense to me. Plain stupity. Its far from funny.
#23
Posted 20 June 2008 - 10:28 PM
I like this fish for it's personality, but teasing it..is a no no.
I've been reading about this fish on the net. According to many owners, it's like a pet dog! Thats what I like about these fish and some others!
#24
Posted 20 June 2008 - 11:05 PM
#25
Posted 22 June 2008 - 04:25 PM
#26
Posted 22 June 2008 - 06:37 PM
Ive kept many Dovii, And never once have I treated them like a dog. I wouldnt even treat my dog like that, to ME thats not playing. But thats my opinion.
#27
Posted 23 June 2008 - 10:18 AM
By walking around the tank or my placing a net in to purposely provoke the fish, all your are doing is invoking natural behaviour. The fish is not being hurt in anyway, unless it bruises itself on the glass. Which is hardly an injury. Atleast it gives the animal something to do in its glass box. I think some people are a bit quick to call "cruelty to animals"!
#28
Posted 23 June 2008 - 11:48 AM
Jeromy
#29
Posted 23 June 2008 - 06:21 PM
just so you know i treat my dog and my fish very well, they are very spoilt, my dog even sleeps inside on his own couch.
As with the dovii's they are like dogs coz they interact with you, my one shows different colours around different ppl, if it doesnt know some one she shows her shy colours if it someone she knows she gets all excited and shakes her body while movin up and down the tank
i dont know how your dovii showed wether it was happy or not, but this is how mine does
#30
Posted 23 June 2008 - 11:53 PM
#31
Posted 24 June 2008 - 09:56 AM
By walking around the tank or my placing a net in to purposely provoke the fish, all your are doing is invoking natural behaviour. The fish is not being hurt in anyway, unless it bruises itself on the glass. Which is hardly an injury. Atleast it gives the animal something to do in its glass box. I think some people are a bit quick to call "cruelty to animals"!
Thats cool, We will agree to disagree.
#32
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:02 AM
cheers scotty boy
#33
Posted 24 June 2008 - 10:26 AM
cheers scotty boy
Hey Scotty,
Bring it into the shop, I'll set it up for you & Show you how to do it. I will back tmrw.
Cheers
Az
#34
Posted 24 June 2008 - 12:04 PM
I would have to agree with Aaron. i dont keep tankbusters atm because i simply cannot house them properly with sufficet room. they are awsome fish, powerful, magnificant! i think that it is cruel to 'tease' or 'play' with them as such because in there natural habbitat they are not restricted to 6'-10' in an enclosure. in the wild they are free to travel as far or as little as they like, but in an aquarium if they are 'played' then they are being taught that every time you come near that they get to chase something or have a good feed. how then can you just come over to you tank to enjoy the pure grace and power of most tank busters (tems, monocs, etc) without them going spaz when you walk past the tank. also IMO i think that it can be unsafe for you fish, brusing against the glass and also i know poepl that have had sarratoga's, monoc's and a few other species jump out of the tank and knocking through coverglass, because of such behavioral characteristics.. we recently had a sarra try to jup out of a display tank because there was a gap in the coverglass, (he is 100% just so you know he didnt get out).
just so you all know i'm not trying to argue with any of you as i know that most of us have all had many years of fish keeping under thier belts and respect all ppl's opinions, this is simple my thoughts about the issue...
Cheers heaps,
Arron
#35
Posted 24 June 2008 - 09:53 PM
#36
Posted 25 June 2008 - 09:50 AM
thats great bigz... how big is he atm??
i just dont like the idea of someone going out of their way to provoke a fish with predatory instinct....
i love the dovii, great tank busters
Cheers
Arron
#37
Posted 25 June 2008 - 02:51 PM
Hes round about 25cm the females smaller at about 20. They are great fish tons of personality.
#38
Posted 25 June 2008 - 03:47 PM
Re: Bigz
how big do they get to breed
have yours breed yet?
Cheers
Arron
#39
Posted 27 June 2008 - 10:42 AM
#40
Posted 27 June 2008 - 10:53 AM
Anything that came near the tank, like the cat, a person a dog... he would go nuts over. He would pull the heater off the glass rip the intake off the aquaclear and when i cleaned the tank i would have to slide in a piece of glass to use as a partition so he couldnt bite me and even then he would just be smashing against it trying to get at me and a couple of time he did and drew blood.
Feeding him was the worst you would go to open the lid and he would straight away start jumping at it... he broke 4 glass lids.
I used to feed him feeder goldfish but ended up having to source feeder black bream that where about 8cm long... he ate about 10-15 of them a week... and immense amounts of pellets.
he was intense and would go off his tree at anything that moved i would call it teasing just a grumpy ass fish whos territory was the whole house not just the tank.
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