Mr Bu, a rare fish collector of China

[Leon Wang]

Hello, everyone, I want introduce a friend here,who is Mr Bu, he is a low-key person but have many rare fishes I want share here.
Mr Bu is a famous rare fish collector in China, he gives a impression which is Australia style in fish keepers, because he has totally four Queensland lungfish,and some eel tail catfish, but his collection is not just Australian fish, he also has many albino fish, Bu has four tanks, three are 2.2m x 0.9m x 0.9m, one is 1.2m x 0.5m x 0.5m. It's a bit hard to describe his fishes, here are some pictures to share.

 

[Leon Wang]

Firstly is a video screenshot of hand feeding lungfish and little Bu, which is a albino jelly catfish (Pseudopimelodus apurensis）and it is Bu's favorite, why he was in orange when taken this photo is orange is little Bu's color. When he first seen little Bu, which is just a little pale than normal jelly catfish, but after one year it shows amazing color and it is the only orange jelly catfish in the world as I know. Little Bu is more than 50cm now, it looks not big because the lungfishes are near 1 meter.

 

[UnstoppableJayD]

Very cool! welcome! I had one of those eel tailed cats it was a great fish. Charney shookONES

 

[Leon Wang]

Very cool! welcome! I had one of those eel tailed cats it was a great fish. Charney shookONES

Thanks a lot, I used live in Australia and I had many eel tailed catfishes, they are great fishes to keep.

 

[Leon Wang]

Bu also have some other albino fishes, one is an albino granulated catfish (Pterodoras granulosus) which also reachs 50cm now, that shows how big the lungfishes, and next is a snow spotted sorubim（Pseudoplatystoma corruscans），the biggest sorubim species, now is 70cm but I think it can grows to 1 meter, and two snow Saddled Bichir,（ Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri）both 40cm.

 

[xraycer]

Wow, what a collection!

Bare tanks aren't my style, but that water is phenomenally crystal clear. Great job, Mr Bu!

 

[Leon Wang]

And here are piraíba (brachyplatystoma filamentosum) and Barca snakehead (Channa barca)， Mr Bu even bought a chiller for this Indian comer to make it feel better in hot summer, which is 60cm under Bu's attend. And here are also two catfishes one is a sorubim but it shows a special color and other is a （Lithodoras dorsalis）when this specie fully grow it's body will covered by bone armour.

 

[xraycer]

The picture of the angelfish with the snakehead is just insane!

 

[Leon Wang]

Wow, what a collection!

Bare tanks aren't my style, but that water is phenomenally crystal clear. Great job, Mr Bu!

Yeap, a biotope will looks much better, but Bu has some many fishes and his fish density is really big, that fishes also eat a lot of food, if he put woods, rocks and sands I think he needs more than ten tanks.

 

[Leon Wang]

The picture of the angelfish with the snakehead is just insane!

The picture with angle fishes was months ago, bow they separate, the snakehead takes a whole tank itself.