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should i get a baby whale for my 15g?

i wanna raise 1 until its big enough to go in the ocean

55 gallon 1 rtbsm, 2 khuli loaches,2 gold rams 1m1f,1 leapord highfin pleco,6 black phantoms
2 odessa barbs ,1 tire track eel,2 green severums

You may need to get two as one may get lonely in that large of a tank.

Wow 15g eh? That may be a little big. Try a 2 gal bowl...with lots and lots of neon pink plastic plants.

The Baby Whale is not a true whale. It is merely a fish that has been given a common name to try to sell it. It is freshwater and comes from Africa; it would not survive very long in saltwater. These are actually fish from the family Mormyridae, a group of fish that can produce electricity. They can be hard to get to feed as they may not respond to processed foods immediately, preferring live foods. Mormyrids are not the best beginner fish as they are a tad more delicate than many fish that can be found at the LFS, however they do make to be interesting fish.

Next, this fish gets about 5" long. It doesn't get anywhere near the size of a whale, but still a 15 gallon is probably too small. On top of this, some sources say that the Baby Whale likes to swim in groups; this mandates a larger aquarium as you not only keep more, but keep more in an aquarium where their electric impulses do not interfere with each other too much.

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again, i hope this is a joke, as like met said baby whales are not mammals. a 15 gallon would be too small for one.

Unless were talking about a mormyrid, a baby whale would weight several hundred pounds, probably need a 300,000 gallon tank and drink tens of gallons of high fat milk daily for about a year.

Thats a tricky home aquarium project by any standard

er what about your four tiger barbs and your gouramis? You are already overstocked, and I am beginning to think you feel nothing for your fish.

Fish are like potato chips. . .you can't have just one

i wanna raise 1 until its big enough to go in the ocean

This is a joke right?

Inky