I only have a single West African Lungfish about 12ins now if I'm not wrong...
I only have a single West African Lungfish about 12ins now if I'm not wrong...
I have 3 Endlicheri bichirs and 1 Weeksii in my 4 ft tank. Several eels in various tanks. I used to have an Odoe Pike, but I was forced to put it down after its swim bladder bust.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he will drink beer while getting sunburnt.
I have 3 bichirs in a 3 ft tank.
2 of them are Polypterus Endlicheri and the other, i have no idea what is the scientific name. It's commonly known in chinese as Mei hua long.
However, i can't keep them for long.
Mei Hua Long is Ornate bichir I think. I used to keep a channa pleurothelma with my fishes, but it got chomped by the odoe pike.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he will drink beer while getting sunburnt.
ah ok. wah the odoe pike so fierce? was your channa pleurothelma much smaller in size?
I rem i saw at this LFS located at Sin Ming area, the monster fish tanks really awed me. dunno how these shops keep a giant pleco together with 1 bichir inside there.
the bichir is huge too.
Yeah the odoe was quite insane. the pleuro was 3/4 its size when it was eviscerated. It liked to bite on my bichir too, but they were tougher and seems not to suffer wounds.
When it got older it started to feed less and becomes not so active, a few months ago, its swim bladder busted and it couldn't right itself nor swim, I was forced to put it down.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he will drink beer while getting sunburnt.
ah... that's sad.. did it die naturally or u had to cull it?
I have a 12" Red Arowana, 2x 6" Short bodied albino Senegal, 1x 7" long finned senegal, 4 x clown loaches, 4 6" ITs, 1 x 5" AT, 1 x 11" and 1 x 10" Vulture Catfish all in a 5ft tank
Fish keeping is not a good hobby unless you received support from your family to keep them.
Yes I forced to cull it, I had it for 4 years already and was hoping that it would give me some more years. Interesting thing was that I immersed it into a basin of ice cold water to kill it quickly, but it survived for several hours....gave me a shock. I had culled other fishes, oscar, gars, snakeheads in the same manner and usually it is quite effective and quick.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he will drink beer while getting sunburnt.
I will be changing my monster fush collection soon. I will be keeping 1 x 17 inches red tail golden arowana, 2 x 10 inches green arowana, 2 x 7 inches emperor red hook, 2 x 7 inches emperor blue hook, 4 x IT 6, 7, 9, 10 inches, 1 x 10 inches pike, 1 x 7 inches PDRSP, 2 x 5 inches black ray, 1 x 7 inches albino pleco and 1 x L191 pleco. Can someone tell me if it is too heavy loaded in a 6ft sump tank..
Cheers
Koolman
With that type of combination, I guess you got to improve more to your filtration in order to give them more good water. As the occupants all seems to be all high bioloads. How big is the L191?
Fish keeping is not a good hobby unless you received support from your family to keep them.
reporting here! keeping a 8"-9" pearl arowana, a couple of ITs, one small AT, some orino sp(nicer than orino ),2 temensis etcetc...
Last edited by icefire; 18th Jul 2011 at 08:40.
Too much of a fish SIAO to quit fish keeping/fishing..
Hope to see more monster fish keepers here in AQ =) It would be cool to grow this 'sub category' in this forum and more and more people can share their monster fish keeping experiences in this forum =) Soon more and more species of 'monsters' will be banned from import here and I supposed it's up to hobbyists here to keep the spirit alive! It'll be interesting to see other hobbyists' scaping for monster tanks as well! Simple to do but hard to 'get it right'.
I'm now keeping assorted Polypterus endlicheri and palmas species, IT, Channa and aros... looking into the red tail payara once tank upgrading is done =)
Hope to keep it burning and many more will get 'poisoned' into the appreciation of monster fishes =)
People say I've got 'no life' because of my hobby. Well, this hobby IS MY LIFE!
Joseph Soh
I've got a 13-14" African Arowana, an 8" Channa Marulioides and 3 Albino Senegals in a 4 footer at the moment. I've had the Afro for close to half a year now and it's given me a great deal of memories. They're a peaceful comm. but sadly i'm letting them go(minus the Albinos) as i'm on internship and thinking about start planted tanks. Also got a 4" Marbled Lungfish currently growing in a 2 footer.
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