arapima

[cigar larry]

Here are some pics of my new arapima He is about 8" long and was $100 at Ocean Blue fish store in Orange CA. My antique tank is his temp. home. The tank he is in is from, I guess the 1920's. My have been a gold fish tank. It has a drain hole drilled in the bottom,(plugged). He's in with a 5" TIG that won't come out from under his log for pictures. I've got a call to my lfs for a 55gal. tank until I get my 240gal tank up and going.

Till later, cigar larry

 

[AttackFish]

Nice pickup.
Got a pool planned for him?

 

[jcardona1]

Nice pickup.
Got a pool planned for him?

haha yeah seriously!

 

[smulyanto]

hope that 240g tank isnt his permanent home! That's childsplay to what it'll need in the future.

 

[dmopar74]

it'll outrow a 240 in like 4 months. these things grow 1" per WEEK!

 

[Bderick67]

Wow, a little research here wouldv'e gone along way. Good luck with this.

 

[kriztu]

a pond, a pool, a small lake! 240 just wont cut it bro

 

[cigar larry]

I'll Keep moving him up to a bigger tank as he needs it. I'm a little bit nuts. get a hundred dollar deal and spend $10,000 or more making it work. I bought a $10,000 antique race engine and it's taken me about $100,000 to build a car for it. I'm doing that now and i'm not done yet. Fish is just another obsessive compulsive thing. NUTS HUH?

 

[artemis1]

By the time your monster tank is built, your pima will be bigger than you. Arapaimag took over a year (or possibley more than a year, i'm not sure) to build one of his tanks.

They can get growth spurts and grow 3/4'' a week!!!

Just be prepared.

Art

 

[Jakob]

240g hahahaha times 100 and he is happy!