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Jan 28 2009 03:34am

Quote (iSurfeR @ Tue, Jan 27 2009, 05:02am)

I have him in a 20 gallon tank with 2x Black Moors, a 6" Sucker Fish (Forgot the acctual name), and a pink kissing fish.

Plenty of room

Good deal. i heard the general rule of thumb is 1 gallon for every inch of fish in the tank. and fyi suckerfish are plecos, it's short for their scientific name whose correct spelling escapes me atm. also forgot to mention, i have a couple red neck slider turtles in my pond, it's really sweet

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Jan 28 2009 07:10am

Quote (Dr_zoidberg71 @ Mon, Jan 26 2009, 10:14pm)

keep him away from your chest Steve

lol i was just thinking something similar when i saw the mention of stingrays

edit- i think the reason, if anything, why it got him was because he wasn't expecting it. nobody would of ever expected the manly crocodile hunter to get killed by a stingray(including him). this probably affected his behavior around them.

but like he said in his one video, things can be deceiving

like the hippo, nobody's really afraid of them, but they kill more people than crocodiles

This post was edited by Garethsir on Jan 28 2009 07:14am

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Jan 28 2009 04:44pm

Have you been stung before?

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Jan 28 2009 06:36pm

Quote (iSurfeR @ Tue, 27 Jan 2009, 14:13)

His name is Max.

Approximately 5" in diameter, and expected to grow to around 8-10" in diameter.

He is still barbed (still has his stinger, but for defense only).

Non venemous.

The picture is located in my personal album, please comment/rate there!

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii224/iSurfeR/Max.jpg

Nice ray.

Quote (Lasthar @ Wed, 28 Jan 2009, 12:40)

The stingray that killed steve was not poisonous, he died because it stabbed him in the heart

Irwin was stung by a bull ray, that species possessed (as well as many others) a barb coated in a protein-based toxin(VENOM).

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Feb 2 2009 12:45pm

like the hippo, nobody's really afraid of them, but they kill more people than crocodiles

it is because of all those cartons we watch when we were little
hippo,elephant,bull kill most humans each year

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Feb 3 2009 02:22pm

Neat fish! I always wanted a pike of some sort or trout, but aquariums sure as hell ain't cheap.

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