!new! Smallest Fish In The World.

[Dorkhedeos]

Yea..that would be a whole lot of peat and bleach.

actually, i think that would make the ph more alkaline than acidic

check this out
http/www.epa.gov/acidrain/site_students/images/phscale.gif

 

[Synirr]

Yeaaaaah, forget the bleach, stick with the peat

That's so awesome, seems like only yesterday they discovered the now 2nd smallest fish (some type of goby, methinks). It'd be interesting to try to keep them in the home aquarium, that's for sure

 

[OohFeeshy]

Pfff, there goes my possible keeping of the worlds smallest fish... One of the lfs's in Gosport has the fish this one has taken the title from on its stock list, but whether its true or not, I have no idea. Cute though See, all you huge oddbally keeper types, it doesn't need to be a squillion foot long to be cool

 

[chrismr]

Just keep it in a car battery

 

[lljdma06]

Just keep it in a car battery

Had to laugh, car battery. Don't give anybody here any ideas! Next thing you know we'll see a car battery aquarium on eBay.

That is so cool. I imagine you couldn't have much of a filter with these guys. My bridget rasboras used to get stuck all the time and I had to block the uptake tube with a net.

pH of 3? You know I wonder if they took the reading before agitating the water. Many of the labyrinth fish I have read about from that region can be found in pH that is nearly that low, but once the water is stirred, the pH rises to about 5-6.5. It has something to do with dissolved CO2 I think?

Interesting fish. Well I guess they'll be working on Baensch #6 for this little guy.

 

[fishfishfish]

you coidnt use regular filters either.

fishy swimmin...............suck

 

[Ami]

Very intresting... Also with the whale shark.. Since the average has shrunk from 7 to 5.. Do they still maintain the title as the worlds largest fish or were the still that much larger then 2nd place.

Whale sharks are usually reported to be around 12m (32') but some reports put them as large as 18m (59').The average size of whales found have shrunk because they're still hunted in places like India and the Philippines (despite it now being illegal there since 1998).

They like to live in large groups in certain areas of the world, making it easier for them to get caught. From three villages in India alone there were reports of 1,000 whale sharks being caught in one year. In some areas of the Philippines, the catchs have been halving each year indicating that they're fast becoming extinct in that region.

Unfotunately, we actually know very little about the whale shark and aren't even sure if there is a single large mirgratory population, or regional populations across the globe. If there is only one migratory population and they continue to be hunted like they are in those Indian villages, they will fast become extinct.

Next biggest fish is the basking shark, at 10m (33') with reports of up to 15.4m (50.5'). Unfortunately, the situation is even worse for the basking shark with some populations actually listed as endangered and the whole species vulnerable overall. Protected in certain regional waters, but once they go outside the 12m exclusion zone they're fair game. There's also agreements in international fishing quotas to allow them to be hunted eg Norway are allowed to harvest enough basking sharks to get 100 tonnes of liver. That's about 100 sharks I think with the average shark being about 9m (livers at that size weigh around 950kg each).

 

[PDX]

Apparently the tiny thing up on this females back is a sexually mature male...

For the full story click this link http/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4666736.stm

 

[Discomafia]

Wow! Talk about new! And it was just last week that we were reading about the new world's smallest fish from Sumatra... Makes me wonder what else is there to be discovered in nature!

 

[wuvmybetta]

That is one beast of a woman

So tiny...that's quite amazing.

 

[PDX]

That is one beast of a woman

So tiny...that's quite amazing.

Think i would have to put a paper bag over her head if i was that little guy! She ain't no looker!

 

[Lateral Line]

Merged the threads, and tidied it up a bit.

"New" smallest at the BBC as well.

 

[Ami]

Apparently the tiny thing up on this females back is a sexually mature male...

Yep, it's one of the many types of deep sea anglerfish I think. I understand from some very brief reading in a book that the male lives off the female like any other type of parasite.

Not sure how they mate though