Anyone Got, Or Heard Of People With Deep Sea Fish?

[mike_nofx]

I think some deep sea fish are totally amazing.... not to mention some of the scariest creatures ive ever seen.

Does anyone keep deep sea fish?

 

[Navarre]

Its depends on what you consider deep water fish. Collectable deepwater fish such as Watanabae angels are kep (i had a pair myself) but the price tag for such fish is higher due to the depth at which thesde fish are caught.

However i am assuming you mean the real deep water fish that have huge teeth, large mouths and eyes etc. If so then no these fish arent kept in the home aquarium or in fact public aquariums.

Catching them is hard enough. Most methods would never be able to deal with the pressure of the water at this depth. Even if one was caught (and many have been through the years) they would not last very long in captivity due to the difference in water pressure. Most end up a real mess by the time they are brought to the surface and are dead before evem reaching there. We simply dont have the cash to pressurise a tank to similate the depths at which these fish are able to live at.

 

[Phantom Thief]

Hmm, i remember watching a documentary once, where they caught this deep sea organism, wasn't a fish, but i can't remember what it was. Somehow they brought it out and then placed it in a special enclosure at a university or something, where it was specially pressurised to let that organism survive.

As you can see, it's been a long while and the details in my brain are a little fuzzy

But i think it's possible, if you're a multimillionair or something.

P.T.

 

[mike_nofx]

Yeah i was think of the REAL deep. Fish like Anglerfish and viperfish. Ive been looking them up all night now, and know that none have been kept alive.

If i ever somehow got heaps of money, i would definately try and get some! (just dreaming..) haha or just get about 5km of wire rope and try catch one. (Still dreaming)
I wonder if they are brought up slowly to the surface (maybe weeks) if they can adapt.

I read somewhere that viperfish live between 500-2500m under water, but come as close as 80m to the surface in search of food. Heres a viperfish:

It really is amazing what is in the ocean, well i think it is anyway. Hehe i'll be too scared to go in the beach anymore after some of the stuff ive seen on the net tonight....

 

[Phantom Thief]

Actually, i've always wondered if viperfish really need all that teeth

P.T.

 

[andywg]

You can keep fairly close relatives of the Anglers, in the shape of the Frogfish (most commonly the Antennarius or Histero genera.

Not quite so much in the way of teeth, but still a good predator fish to keep.

 

[rubberdoofa]

Well not to put a spanner in the works but those realy ugly deep sea fish , i think one in petic is called an angler fish? can be kept in captivity but in the most masive tanks ive ever seen, i have been to 2 aquariums cant recall which one now had them but if you try either The Deep in Hull or the Blue planet near Chester you would see some .I think both of them have web sites too? I have seen them it was ages back but i remember thinking what a bazzare looking fish something i wouldnt want to come accross while diving myself ide swallow my damn regulator!!!!
Wether they still have them if they survived etc is another matter entirely but hey if your ever at either side of the pennines pay a visit to one the glass lift through the aquarium and the tube thing you can ride through on a conveyer belt is spectacular seeing sharks,rays and other sea life swim above and around your head is breath taking, . just as you thought nowt was about along comes a masive pike or eel poking out of a crack in the rocks
just apoint if any one is out there who works in a aquarium place like this , how oftern do you do water changes, do you have a super syphon, masive protien skimmer and a c02 kit that fills a whole room and how big is your alge scraper!!!!
they have jellies too that glow well they look like they do but thats the UV lighting.