Killi Me Softly Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 I think my scarlet badis has gone caveman. Is this possible? I added him to a 20g long shrimp tank a few months ago. He was doing great. Colored up nice, came to see me at feeding time. Varied diet of blackworms, bbs, scuds and daphnia. Only fish in tank with 30 blue neo shrimp and some ramshorn snails. 2 weeks ago he went missing. I hoped for the best but figured the worst. 2 nights ago I saw a flash in the driftwood while I was watching shrimp. Then again last night. Kinda creepy. Flash and then nothing, gone. So I grabbed a flashlight and started searching. Low and behold, there's Kyle, the scarlet badis, living in a knothole in the driftwood. But when we make eye contact he looks wild. He's healthy, very colorful fins in great shape. But he looked.....crazy. like he'd moved to the woods and wanted nothing to do with the real tank world. Is this possible? Has Kyler gone rouge? Should I sleep with one eye open? 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Clearly, you use extreme caution if sleeping in the same room as Kyle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I love the vision of Kyle, as a fellow of diminutive stature, having enough faith in himself to stake out some turf! Are the shrimp larger than he is? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killi Me Softly Posted June 18, 2022 Author Share Posted June 18, 2022 The adults are definitely as big as Kyle. Before he moved to the hole he would hunt the blackworms at night. I thought he was sleeping in the java moss but he was waiting for the worms to stick their heads up out of the substrate. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I have not met Kyle, but I love him automatically. He might be a good friend for my one-armed platy, Kevin, who goes by Kev. Kev is the only hi fin platy in the tank and he only has one pectoral fin, but he has the determination to swim in a straight line and he does! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrey Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 I love this!!!! I'm also ORD 😍😍🤣😍😍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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