Honestly I think that the ultimate monster tank would be one of those with one of those eight foot wels catfish and an arapaima. Maybe see if you could get them to breed to.
Can small gars be kept with small arowanas?
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, the Youtube famous "King of DIY" lost 2 silvers to a gator gar. He talks about it in this video. I agree with S Supergeorge123 that shooting one of the world's last real monsters is horrible. Go shoot up some bigheads and leave us our country's last 50yr+ old gars.
Yeah, I agree with you guys, we shouldnt be shooting them. But unfortanetly people are too stupid to understand that
I would say more like 60ft x 30ft x12ft for the full grown beasts which would be more like 161,000 gallons. Any of our billionaire members here want to do it?
The real problem is the destruction of their habitat but there is not much one person could do about that. One person can not hunt them though. Or you could just do catch and release fishing if you really want to.
In many cases, fish grow larger, faster in aquariums than they do in nature. In aquariums they get fed regularly, which often doesn't;t occur in nature. As long as water quality is kept high, there is no reason any fish should have less growth in an aquarium. That whole thing about growing to the size of the tank is BS.
I agree with you that it is a shame that these ancient creatures are being killed as frequently as they are, keep in mind that that fish is probably double the age of the man next to it. It is simply not going to get that big in an aquarium (if it can, I'd love to see an example), or even most places in the wild for that matter. Just as you most likely won't see a VAFT over 18" in captivity, you are just not going to see a giant alligator gar in captivity. Even it the gar could get that big in a captive environment, the arowana would have died of natural causes 4-8 times over by the time it could reach that big. Arowana live 10-20 years, and I've heard it takes around 80 years for a gar to break 7 foot in the wild.Okay well tell him to keep this with his arowanna than. The guy shot it and said it was 400 pounds. Also I have no idea why there are so many "people" out there that want kill the last of the very few remaining great animals on this planet.
Within REASON it is bs. You obviously can't keep a RTC 8" by keeping it in a 10 gallon(or at least not without killing it). But a fish's size is unarguably determined by its environment. Going with the catfish example, this is your average tsn in an aquarium:
and this is your average wild shovelnose:
I'd love to be proven wrong here. Baby aligator gars are a very common pet store sight, and hundreds upon hundreds of people buy them, so if they indeed can surpass 6 foot in captivity, surely someone out there can provide me with a example. The catch is that they had to have actually that big in captivity, not been caught that big...)
holy galr. thas a really huge gar there . lol an arapaima would be a better tankmate with gars i guessOkay well tell him to keep this with his arowanna than. The guy shot it and said it was 400 pounds. Also I have no idea why there are so many "people" out there that want kill the last of the very few remaining great animals on this planet.
