Check out my lungfish

[y26tan18]

yes I'm very proud of him/she

[stormhawk]

Weird looking fella. It looks in excellent health. Are you feeding it with market prawn?

[ranmasatome]

wahahaha.. thats hilarious.. cute fella.

[Emokidz]

Cute fish! They are very personable fish.

[limz_777]

the lung didnt attack the smaller fish ? also thinking of getting one, is this a west african lung ?

[icefire]

careful of your fingers man had one around 2ft last time(normal common lung).. nearly got bitten a few times haha

[icefire]

if you want to get lungfish now is the best time to get it as 12 inch is lesser than 50 dollars at LFS. pm me as cannot reveal which LFS and exact pricing(i think) haha

[y26tan18]

Yes I fed it market prawns. other food on the menu are chicken liver, bloodworm and massivore.

Its a West African lung fish. I got this for $68 though at bout 8ins so $50 is quite cheap...

The lung did eat one of em but he left the rest alone. Guess he didnt like the taste HAHA. Actually I wanna to give them away..maybe will post later in the buy/sell section.

[stormhawk]

I watched a Taiwan travel show on Channel U some weeks back. The host was in some African country and he had lungfish for his mid-day snack.

During the show, the African fisherman told him that the lungfish is a nasty biter. The actual crushing teeth is inside the throat I think, so if it catches hold of your finger, it can literally crush it off.

[Emokidz]

Oh the one with the guy host who kept dropping it on the ground right! I saw it too. He said it tasted really tender and nice

[stormhawk]

Yup that episode. They had several episodes dealing with freshwater fish. I think all the stingray fans would have caught the episode of him in Brazil catching rays in the wild along with Arapaima.

It tasted tender and nice, but had a mud taste too. Exotic meat for exotic tastebuds.

[y26tan18]

so back to my lung fish -.=''' anyone know how to tell the gender of a african lung fish ?

[stormhawk]

I don't think you can sex it just by looking at it. They don't seem to exhibit any outward difference between male and female lungfishes.

[icefire]

I watched a Taiwan travel show on Channel U some weeks back. The host was in some African country and he had lungfish for his mid-day snack.

During the show, the African fisherman told him that the lungfish is a nasty biter. The actual crushing teeth is inside the throat I think, so if it catches hold of your finger, it can literally crush it off.

OMG! then lucky that i did not get bitten at all... phew!

[stormhawk]

I've never kept a lungfish before but research on the web shows that it feeds by sucking in a food item multiple times to grind it down before ingesting it. Much like a sugarcane machine. See this link to an image of the skull of the lungfish.

http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/159838.jpg

You can see that the teeth are mere stubs, but it is probably the sucking action and the constant grinding of the food item that can cause some serious hurt to the fishkeeper. Because when it bites, the whole head is working ON the biting power...

[y26tan18]

okay de la. once in a while I also put my hand in and play play with it lol. it has a really really soft feel =D

[stormhawk]

You feeling the slime? They are slippery buggers. I think your lungfish is probably quite tame by now.

[y26tan18]

yea soft and slippery. I was expecting the skin to be rougher and harder. Maybe the bigger it gets the more aggressive it will be ?
It grows really fast though. i think about 5 inches in 2 months.

[stormhawk]

Well, as long as it doesn't attempt to bite your fingers or kill the rainbowfish in the same tank, I think it's okay. How big is the tank anyway?

[sungod666]

i think i saw this fish at aquastar in yishun.