New wild axanthic??? Silver arowana from wes rare fish

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Yes, I have personally seen one. Touched it, added and glued the pectoral and pelvic fis too, because unlike the rest of the arowana and its dorsal, caudal, and anal fins that are all cast together on the fiberglass reproductions . They are all cast as one piece. The other two sets of fins(pelvic & pectoral) have to be added later, before it's painted. They are longer, thinner and more fragile and prone to breakage. I have personally experienced trying to mount a real arowana also, twice. They are extremely difficult to skin without loosening any of the scales. IF you can get the meat and bones out of the fish through the longitudinal incision that goes the entire length of the arowana's body from the gill to the base of the caudal fin, then that's about 1/4 of the work done. Next take out the eyeball on both sides and remove the cheek meat. Then scrape the fishes carcass of any leftover meat or tissues. Then degrease the fish in a bucket with a special chemical. After that dry it thoroughly, stuff the insides with your putty that's made for taxidermy and don't forget about the cheeks. Fix your fake eyes in the correct position. Using pins, fix it's fins and body to a board in the final position you desire the fish to look like when finished. Wait for it to dry. Then mix up your colors so you can airbrush them on(normally arowana colors aren't available, Lol). Paint your fish. Then clearcoat it over the paint, and ta-da, your done. 99% of mounted arowana are fiberglass reproductions. All one size and shape for the most part. The real fish are extremely difficult to mount. I'm good at other fish, but these fish make me look like I am an amateur. The colors on ALL mounted fish are painted on them. I can make a snow, a xanthic, or a pink arowana with purple tiger striped fins that has flames or racing stripes on it if I want it that color. So, yes I've seen one or two. P.S. IT is not as simple as I made it sound. Thanks
 
KELVINFONG said:
Have you seen a dead stuff aro before or not? I have seen and they don't look like that.

I told you I have seen a axanthic silver aro before.. A couple of them in a white fibre tank.. I was looking down at them from top.. They have translucent scale with light purplish inner core scale. .. Quite unlike the pics i posted. The place I saw it was at the now closed down DJ aquarium in Singapore. I am not here to sell any products... I dont need to prove anything.. Maybe I have seen the wrong thing.. But that was what I thought they were then.. Axanthic aro..

For those who wants to buy these.. By all means.. Go buy.. But I am 100 percent sure these axanthic traits are reproducible and they come in bAtches..and they will be like another albino silver thingy..
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You keep digging a hole for yourself bro. The whole argument is that you say these fish are really common and can be produced easily and this should be cheap to buy. But from our conclusions they are not common and if they were easily bred and available we/you would have seen many and there would be many pictures and many up for sale. So how can you still say they are common and cheap?


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If you have been to panda aquatic in Singapore. You will see a real stuffed red arowana..doesn't look fibre glass or moulded..perhaps the way u do is different.
 
No need to argue so much... given you the pic already.. now still want more? Like I said .. u go buy it and keep... 3 years later we will see who is laughing ....
 
Maybe. But there's only two ways to do it. With a real fish or one that has been moulded from a real fish using fiberglass. Either way, they HAVE to be painted Bro. It's not a big deal just check it out up close for a minute. You can tell pretty obviously if you look at it well. Ok, my final statement, I hope. Wes is not making this up. He obviously has some pretty confident information about it and where it came from. I have never heard or seen of one time that he has embellished or made up anything. He is a smart enough man to know that if he did make this story up....that sooner or later, he's gonna get caught up in it because someone will find out somehow. He would never risk his reputation on something like that. It might make him a few thousand dollars right now, but lose money on it in the end because people would stop buying from him because of his dishonesty. He is 100% sure of his statement. Not 99.9%. He wouldn't risk it. He just doesn't work like that. If he doesn't know, he doesn't know. He will tell you. IMO, the fish are exactly what he said, and they are wild caught from where he said also. My man DOESN'T make up a story to sell fish. His stuff sells itself. That's it for me. If there is more than a couple of those arowana that are not in his possession or someone else's that he has sold them to, then there has to be a picture of one or more than one on the internet. Show everyone that you are right and find a picture of one or more that Wes had nothing to do with the importation on. Something that he has never seen, handled , or paid for. Then and only then will I believe that there are others. Thanks.
 
KELVINFONG said:
No need to argue so much... given you the pic already.. now still want more? Like I said .. u go buy it and keep... 3 years later we will see who is laughing ....
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In order for the price to go down like you said there would have to be thousands of fish produced. I don't see that happening. You don't even see albinos that often and they still fetch a high price here.


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Bro.. I didnt see the earlier pic clearly. now much clearer. I dont know what to say really. You know for awhile I associate this with the panda axanthic rtg. Unique translucent Gill plate.. Therefore can see through the Gill when they are young.. and completely black eyes from young to adult.

In your piece.. All I can say Is good luck. The eyes like normal.. The body will lose its transluceny as color start to built up resulting like a normal silver as it matures.

Just give another 3 months..
 
ultimatejay said:
In order for the price to go down like you said there would have to be thousands of fish produced. I don't see that happening. You don't even see albinos that often and they still fetch a high price here.


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The albinos silver are dirt cheap now in Singapore. That's why I advise ppl not to buy axanthic.

This piece not worth buying. It will look like a normal silver as it matures. ..even if only 1 piece in this world.. What's the point if this piece is going to look the millions of those normal silver right?
 
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