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Has anyone seen this before??
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 10:11
by bushynose_cory
A site is selling these "doctorfish". After some research, these fish look very different from the "original" doctorfish. The site says these live in hot spring waters and close springs, and help you get healthy by eating dead skin and parasites.
Has anyone seen or kept this fish before? I think it's cute!
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 14:47
by Bas Pels
The fish looks like a chich lid to me, but I've never heard of cichlids eating dead skin from any surface.
A fw cichlids do life in hot springs, but these are normally generalised opportunists.
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 17:03
by TalenT
I used to work in an LFS and sometimes we could order what was called "doctorfish" from the list, they were always Garra.sp . The fish on that picture is no Garra.
I didn't say that two different species (or more) can share the same popular name though.
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 19:01
by Richard B
In the sea in spain, the local marine fish will nibble your legs & pull at the hairs (this applies to us gents only). It is a crude take on the well known cleaner wrasse kept by marine keepers - some other fish - like the Garra sp. do similar things sometimes but i doubt if that was the pictured fishes sole source of nutrients....
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 21:59
by grokefish
and hippy chicks
Posted: 15 Feb 2007, 01:32
by bushynose_cory
Do you think I can keep it, then?