Atheopicus

[reddragon343]

I heard that this is the worlds largest lung. Well...here's mine.
This here is 3ft++ of nasty bastard. Anyone in singapore can interest me with a trade? hahahaha

 

[Tom500]

More like 3ft++ of awesome bastard!!!

 

[andyjs]

Sweet lung. I'm doing a paper on these guys (well extant sarcopterygians as a whole) right now. From what I've read, P. aethopicus at least it terms of length is supposed to be the largest

 

[Druu]

Sweet lung. I'm doing a paper on these guys (well extant sarcopterygians as a whole) right now. From what I've read, P. aethopicus at least it terms of length is supposed to be the largest

If my comp hadn't crashed, I could have sent you a paper tracing the origin of tetrapods to either sarcopterygia or dipnoi.

That's a nice fish. That floating bit of a plant a snack?

 

[reddragon343]

erm....no...the plant is just in there....i dun knw where it came from. Its a holding tank. I call this guy a nasty bastard cuz he's completely disemboweled 4 goldfishes that live in a completely diff area of the pond. He travelled there.....just to hunt the Goldfish...not feeders!!!

 

[Infblue]

WOW beautiful patterns!!

P. aethiopicus aethiopicus is the largest. Yours is P. aethiopicus congicus, which supposedly stays smaller.

 

[reddragon343]

supposedly? and how big is "smaller"? hahaha

 

[Infblue]

well according to fishbase, P.a.congicus gets to about half the size of P.a.aethiopicus. But who really knows exactly how much smaller, anyhow i suppose the consensus is that it's smaller.

 

[GriF]

Well it looks more like a P. Aethiopicus Aethiopicus to me...the patern looks allot like a congicus...but these fish have so many different paterns and colors, from almost completely black to grey ( a little blue-ish).. If you look at the body shape and the fins the place where the anal fin starts and especially the girth of the fish it's a P.A.A. for sure.

 

[GriF]

p.s that sure as hell is one great looking lungfish I envy you for sure.
how is it's temprament?

so far.