My rarest import ever! Leptobotia elongata!!!

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We have just obtained the rarest fish in the hobby, and you'll probably never find this fish in anybody's fish tank. This fish will satisfy the interest of most fish keepers.

It gets large enough for monster fish keepers, 36" in the wild!

Its RARE- the rarest in the wild and probably non in the hobby, in the world! its rare even on the internet, you'll only find pictures posted from years ago, but not recent.

Its colorful and unique-yellow with black bars, and as it grows, it will turn into irregular, mosaic patterns like a tigrinnis cat. Color scheme now is like a datnoid.

Its predatory, larger ones will eat feeders and market shrimp. I have seen pictures of 30 plus inch ones with my own eyes.

Again its rare, my friend and I traveled over 10,000 miles by plane, 1000 miles by car, into remote mountains to obtain this fish. The local people have not seen this fish for at least 2-5 years, and some fisherman have never seen this fish before. We had to get special permission from the local government to obtain these fish. just our trip alone cost us over 3500 dollars each.

I'll post pictures and more info. later. Please email me direct at amazonaq@aol.com

We have only a handfuls of babies available, and a few subadults. Detailed information will be posted later tonight.

Feel free to guess what it is :)
 
Can you at least give us a location? Like SA/CA, Asia, blah blah blah.

Sounds awesome though Wes! Looking forward to pictures! 100% sure its out of my price range though! LoL
 
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OOOOOOOOOOOMGosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

freakin' excited for more info :)
 
tamzor;3428442; said:
gold cross back aro?

just think, gold aro, you could google and get about 1000 pictures or more right? this fish you'll only see a handful of pictures, many of which are the same ones, and last most recent picture was taken about 4-5 years ago.

this is rarer than any arowana, rarer than an albino arowana, which there are at least hundreds if not thousands in the world already, and they're man made. this fish is a wild fish.
 
fugupuff;3428402; said:
It gets large enough... 36"!

Its colorful and unique-yellow with black bars, and as it grows, it will turn into irregular, mosaic patterns... Color scheme now is like a datnoid.

stevenrox;3428429; said:
my buttox

Steven u rox! :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL: Your "yellow" buttox must got whoop a lot to get those black bars! :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:
 
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