Advice Needed for lungfish

[Shishir Shetye]

Hi...

Recently I adopted west African lungfish. I have placed it in 4ft X 2ft X 2ft.
With no filter, i clean water 40% after every 3 days.

Any one please suggest a proper diet for him.

I am giving him 2 pellets of Hikari algae wafer and Hikari Tropical Massivore Delite (alternate days) and also small amount of blood worms daily in evening and earth worms occasionally. Is this ok..???

 

[ShanerBock888]

Why do you have no filter? You definitely need one

 

[CarpCharacin]

Yes, you absolutely do need a filter if you want that fish to survive. Also, your is too small to house that fish for life. That fish can easily grow over 3 feet and that tank can't accommodate it.

 

[Hendre]

First a fairly decent filter is required for any lungfish specie unless you do extremely big wayer changes every day. Secondly a tank with at least 6x6 footprint and bigger is better even though lung fish are not super active. A small popup swimming pool is better.

The diet sounds ok but some form of fish such as fillets or cubes of tilapia or similar will do him good.

If you want a lung fish that can live in that tank indefinitely a gilled african lungfish is for you reaching around 13" but they are extremely rare as few have been exported from their native range

 

[Shishir Shetye]

Thanks for advice.

Ya sure I have main tank of 7 X 2 X 2.5 Ft. I will replace it after some months because he is just 10inch in size.

This tank i provided is temporary residence for him. And which type of filter will be needed, i used power filter but that gives him trouble to sit in any place silently.

 

[CarpCharacin]

You are probably going to need a sump.

 

[Shishir Shetye]

How about this type of filter... its available online. Will it be fine.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Will it be fine.

That won't work. That is a small internal filter for a small tank. You will need to build a sump or get an ultima II or a fluval fx6.

 

[Hendre]

Your tank is about 110 gallons right? A filter that turns over at least 400 gallons per hour is recommended and 600 gallons per hour is ideal. For that sorta power you need quality canister filters or a sump if your tank has an overflow.
Last thing if the filtration is under the tank make sure it can pump 600GPH to the tank if the filters are below, they lose flowrate if you are pumping upwards

 

[Wailua Boy]

Load your tank with floating plants and assuming your tank receives ample sunlight, you can really cut back on filtration that way