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TankBuster
05-02-2006, 2:32 PM
Does anyone have any info on the spotted ratfish that has experience with them, I have checked google but not much info that I need. How big of a tank do they need and feeding habits. Thanks for any help. Oh and prices please.
( Hydrolagus collei) Never kept one but caught many. They are fully marine, have strong jaws and are scavangers and predators on inverts and small fish. They required cold water and get to about 39" but are very flexible and it is mostle thin tail so a couple adults would work in a chilled 350g. thet have a venomous spine that gives a wound worse than most catfishes and tends to get infected. When fishing they are bait stealing pains in the butt and have a nasty, oily aftertaste.
FishHeadSoup
05-02-2006, 3:21 PM
cute fishy thou...
CrypticSins
05-02-2006, 5:33 PM
pretty fish, saltwater is so much more impressive than freshwater
Honda12
05-02-2006, 5:37 PM
Thats a cool fish. You should get one TankBuster.
TankBuster
05-02-2006, 8:41 PM
Well as soon as my bass are ready to hit the pond I will get one in the 250g. Thanks for the info.
TankBuster
06-13-2006, 4:45 PM
How cold does the water need to be? 68 to 70?
How cold does the water need to be? 68 to 70?
LOL, no, their average habitat temperature is about 46-48 F, they have been encountered is water at 36 F and survived for 2 weeks at 58 F in the Brussels Aquarium.
i have crabs
06-13-2006, 11:14 PM
ya a chiller for a 250g should run you a few bucks.
TankBuster
06-15-2006, 2:24 AM
Ok, F that. I will leave it up to the people in the artic to own one then.
hahaha. isnt that the shark that came second in potm to that snakehead
Callisto
06-16-2006, 6:39 PM
One of the cool things about these fish is that the males have a third clasper located on the head... I wonder how that one came about, or exactly how they go about using it :lol:
dark stranger
04-17-2007, 6:44 PM
cool fish but 46-48f now thats one cold fish