Today From The Fish Room

[xygtfalcon]

Awesome Pics n Fish

 

[CFC]

whats that fish with the black and red striped tail?

Which one?

This one

which is a FW Dorado (Salminus brasiliensis)

or this one

which is a Flagtailed Prochildodus

 

[QuotheRaven]

CFC the master of the monster fish, purely awesome and jaw dropping...love the dwarf cat...what is he doing in that picture it looked to me like he was out of water but my eyesight is shocking

 

[CFC]

CFC the master of the monster fish, purely awesome and jaw dropping...love the dwarf cat...what is he doing in that picture it looked to me like he was out of water but my eyesight is shocking

He's in the water i can assure you and he's just begging for food as he always does when he see's me in the room.

 

[QuotheRaven]

yeah of course he was in water but it didn't look like it to me and my insane eye's... Those tanks are so cool Im sure many are jealous

 

[beechey]

Flagtailed Prochildodus

thanks

 

[spAcE mOnkEy]

OVERCROWDED.



Very very nice. I love the dorado! Does he play nicely with the jardini?

ANnnddd.... about the electric eel....
Any idea what size they get generally in captivity? How active are they in general?
It would be AWSOME if you could get close up shots of the electric eel too...

EDIT: What is that fish in the 3rd pic? Above the spotted shovelnose, hiding in the driftwood? Looks evil...

 

[CFC]

The Dorado recieves regular ass kickings from the jardini to make sure that it knows its place, i'm not sure that it actually cares though Generally as long as remember to put a little food in every day they all get along reasonably well.

The fish hiding in the picture with the Hemisorubim is indeed an evil fish, thats the Cephalosilurus species (i'm not sure what it is now, meant to be a nigricauda but at 13" it would have to be the biggest one i've ever heard of) Its a pure beast, even i'm frightened of it

No idea on captive size for the electric eel, not enough people have kept them (i wonder why ) judging by the growth rate i'm guessing something similar to that of silver arowana's so roughly 30", should be fun at that size
I've tried getting close ups of the eel but it gets over excited and zooms all over the tank so they all come out as fast moving grey blurs. One of the most active fish i've ever kept, it rarely stops moving and looking for things to kill, its now zapped all the snails i put in as clean up crew and attacks small pieces of wood if they get moved by the current. Luckily it is so flexible it makes arowanas look like lumps of wood in comparison, i've seen it do a 360 turn in a gap no more than 4" wide so at least its not going to need a 30" wide tank to move in, i'm thinking a 6x2x2 should do it for life as a single fish in a big tank.

 

[ringham]

OMG you guys have some absolutely amazing fish!!!!! you are all SOOOO lucky !!!!!!! jelous much

 

[CFC]

What guys ? They are all my fish

 

[ringham]

1) i got mixed up... your fish are awesome

2)also... I'm sure there are others on this forum who have fantastic fish like this.

 

[CFC]

There probably is, but they havent posted pictures in this thread

Thanks for the compliments though.

 

[cane76]

you do have a sweet collection,how about some pics of the brackish show tank

 

[CFC]

Nah, i'm really unhappy with the brackish tank at the moment, after losing most of the fish in 3 seperate freak incidents over the last 9 months all there is left in is is 3 common monos, 3 red scats, 1 G.tile moray, a toadfish that no one ever sees and a big Dorminator goby that is the biggest wuss i've ever known and hides if anyone even walks in the room. The selection of brackish fish available is so small that finding anything interesting is almost impossible and when anything does come its always too small to add. I would really like to change the tank to something different like a Tanganykian set up or put a couple of small rays in it but the mrs likes her brackish fish so i'm stuck with them since this is the only tank in the living areas of the house and we have to agree what goes in

Waste of 150 gallons of water.

 

[cane76]

i was thinking about making the 100g into a brackish community once the other tank is up and running,i might give it a miss if its that limited