Amazon Abyss SHOW on discovery

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Can't ever be happy with what ya got huh? I am not trying to offend but seriously...how often do you see a documentary with a focus on fish? Hardly ever. I was talking crap about it for a bit but then I realized..."Wait...here is a show on TV about fish!!! How often do we see that?" It wasen't some guy wrestling a crocodile. It wasen't lions killing zebra in Africa. I wasen't some stupid countdown about the most deangerous snakes and insects. It was not some show like Animal Facoff or another stupid Shark Attack show. This was a real documentary for once about something hardly anyone knows about. I learned a few things and got to see a lot of my favorite fish in a place I can only dream of visiting. I loved the show. I was actually suprised about how much fish they had in it. I thought the focus would be otters, caimen and other "more appealing" animals.
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Yes... my thoughts exactly, SandTiger! ;)

...what kind of fish was those scavengers eating it kinda looked like a bichir or wolffish...
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Yeah, I think that was a Wolffish??... Also, correct me if I'm wrong... but weren't those candirus that were burrowing into the wolffish... actually Cetopsis sp.? :confused: Dunno for sure?... Was watching the show OFF & ON?... (was actually plumbing my tank during the time?) :uhoh:
 
i dono
but i want those little mean guys

fugupuff get me 100 of them :)
 
Yeah, those Cetopsis cats can really F*CK some SH*T up!! :eek:

In TFH's "An Atlas of Freshwater And marine Catfishes" book, it shows a pic of a huge dead "Piraiba" (B. filamentosum)... with a bunch of holes right thru 'em, caused by Cetopsis!! Totally uncanny?!! :jaw-dropp
 
man i saw more commercials than the show. I was dissapointed. I felt like I knew more about the fish than they did. Hook me up with some diving lessons and I will make an awesome documentary. The big magladorus looked like it was trying to escape and just happened to look like it was "attacking". AND WHERE WAS THE JAU. It was cool they spent an hour of the show searching for it :( Ill just go to my zoo and see one.

Over dramatized, yeah in many parts. I must admit i didnt know many parts of the river were that dark though...that was interesting. If you guys wanna see a cool video of all fish buy Oliver Lucanus's Rio Orininoco video.
 
sandtiger said:
Can't ever be happy with what ya got huh? I am not trying to offend but seriously...how often do you see a documentary with a focus on fish? Hardly ever. I was talking crap about it for a bit but then I realized..."Wait...here is a show on TV about fish!!! How often do we see that?" It wasen't some guy wrestling a crocodile. It wasen't lions killing zebra in Africa. I wasen't some stupid countdown about the most deangerous snakes and insects. It was not some show like Animal Facoff or another stupid Shark Attack show. This was a real documentary for once about something hardly anyone knows about. I learned a few things and got to see a lot of my favorite fish in a place I can only dream of visiting. I loved the show. I was actually suprised about how much fish they had in it. I thought the focus would be otters, caimen and other "more appealing" animals.
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Hey I was psyched up for a few days to see this "show" (note: not documentary) on the fish as I thought. ,,,,,,,,Awesome something was SUPPOSENLY focused on fish--------Amazon at that even!
But as I said above, "I thought show was mostly too much dramatization & them trouble shooting equipment, very little info on the fish, though some shots were cool,,,, it lacked the info on most of the fish.
National Geographic had a DOCUMENTARY called "Flooded Forest" focused on arowana, piranah, ext... and their eating habits along with amazing footage.

I mean, come on, how many people outside of the hobby know that there are FW rays and puffers or know of Brachyplatystoma species and some of the sizes of these cats or to see a Tigrinus, or even inform people of the cute little redtail cat at their LFS can reach 42''+
Just thought there was little info!
Seeing some of the fish I keep in their natural environment is always eye-candy.
 
darkemotion said:
they didn't show any arowanas or arapaimas...!!! it seemed like most o the show they filmed that broken robotic thing and trying to fix it.. what kind of fish was those scavengers eating it kinda looked like a bichir or wolffish...
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They used a couple of different feeders, one had a head like a wolf fish, another didn't have much head left but the dorsal,tail, and pattern looked like a tigrinus.
It seemed like any narrow pale cat was loosely called a candiru, while I was trying to find one for sale I found out the the Bazilian groups at least a few fish from at least 2 genus as candiru. Some get to at least 6" and were only parasitic when young, then they take the place of salt water hag fish. Two of the larger fish they called candiru were Probably not, they had the dorsal and caudal fins, as well as the body shapes of typical pims, one type was silvery and the other was spotted.
 
Probably the best fish documentary I have ever seen (since we are on the topic) was Nat Geo's "Jewels of the Rift" about African cichlids. They focused on fish (and some ot their predators) for the whole show and we did not have to see a single talking head. Nat Geo has the best documentarys by far along with PBS's NOVA.

As for this "Amazon Abyss", they did focus a lot on the people and equipment but I think the documentary was not supposed to be about the Amazon but rather one of the only underwater expeditions to the Amazon. The focus was not supposed to be fish, the focus was about the people doing something hardly ever done. Thats why I give it so much slack in the fish department, we were lucky to see as much as we did. I would call this an expidition, travel or adventure show rather then a nature documentary.
 
since when is megladoryas a monster catfish? i thought irwini only got to 25in MAX... i was disapointed, the lest they could of done was put a caption in the corner stating the common name, scientific name, max size, and occuring areas
 
an i had no idea river dolphins noses were twisted or was this a deformity they neglected to talka bout it and say the twist was natural.... and these river dolphin looked nothing like the few ive seen in photos..... i was disapointed to the max....... and does anyoen realize there are NO fish documentary footage on ares or kazza??
 
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