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  Re: [Aroid-l] Growing Aroids in Planted Ripariums
From: "Marek Argent" <abri1973 at wp.pl> on 2009.10.04 at 00:46:27(20148)
Hello Devin,

If you have Puntius (Barbus) tetrazona, thow them away. They are worse than
piranhas.
They chase other fishes and bite their pinnae, especially the species with
long pinnae like the black tetra (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi).
In a local pet shop they had G. ternetzi and P. tetrazona in one aquarium
and all the tetras had damaged pinnae and they were close to death.
I told them what's the reason and now they have Puntius tetrazona in a
separate aquarium,
sometimes with other Puntius species like P. titteya or P. conchonius, and
tetras are healthy.

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