Tribute to My N.Pulcher

Still grieving over biggie. It's been 3 weeks since he left.

Just when I thought I am about to get over it with my new apistos purchase (will talk about it in my next post), last night my once beautiful n.pulcher also gave up the ghost. This fella has been a fighter, he is one of the class of '03 that has survived since I decided to concentrate on frontosas. In his heydays, he would scare the shits out of his tankmates, including much bigger frontosas. He was also responsible for causing the death of a few of my n.brichardis. This fella is one of the few fishes that has the honour of sharing tanks with all my other collections including malawis mbunas and peacocks, pseudotropheus demasonis, frontosas, and was vegetarian for 3 months in my tropheus tank. I remember I had to put this fella with the tropheus because he was terrorizing all the other tankmates in other tanks. Finally in the tropheus tank, he met his match. Not that he was bullied, but he was able to stand his own. Alas age must have caught up on him, and coupled with a tail injury, he wasn't that mobile anymore. He was finally transfered to my main front tank about 6 months back. Slowly the once beautiful colours left him, the same fishes that he once terrorized a year back no longer feared him. He still went about his own business but I could tell it was time. So, it was no surprise to me when i saw the carcass at the bottom of the tank.

Going to miss him, but I am sure I would keep pulchers again if I have the chance. A species tank would be nice.