Carapo Knifefish

[Kaliedoscope]

Industrial, I'm not arguing with you, but we do have very different attitudes towards fishkeeping.
I do belive that a fish should have a chance to live out its natural reproductive cycle in captivity. To each his own, but thats my belief.
The fact that you're spouting impertenant trivia shows that you've done your research, which I applaud for a future knife keeper. I hope they do well for you.
But obviously we have different opinions of gymnotiformes.

However, from what I know of them carapo knives are anything but sedentary when compared to CK. Have you tried looking into scientific papers, online or at your local college library? The only usable information on gym. imo is found here, very little of it on the internet seems to be consistant or accurate. Field reports are much more reliable.

jus tryin to help

 

[MonsterMinis]

"I do belive that a fish should have a chance to live out its natural reproductive cycle in captivity"

and no offense to you.. but how many Gymnos have been bred in captivity?...

 

[Hoyo12]

Industrial, I'm not arguing with you, but we do have very different attitudes towards fishkeeping.
I do belive that a fish should have a chance to live out its natural reproductive cycle in captivity. To each his own, but thats my belief.
The fact that you're spouting impertenant trivia shows that you've done your research, which I applaud for a future knife keeper. I hope they do well for you.
But obviously we have different opinions of gymnotiformes.

However, from what I know of them carapo knives are anything but sedentary when compared to CK. Have you tried looking into scientific papers, online or at your local college library? The only usable information on gym. imo is found here, very little of it on the internet seems to be consistant or accurate. Field reports are much more reliable.

jus tryin to help

lol, do you have any experience in keeping a Carapo perhaps? Or are you just basing things on what you have read about?

 

[Industrial]

I myself read a ton of scientific articles, and one of my personal favorite scientific source is Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia volumes 4 and 5 from my college library. While the information is very interesting, it's almost irrelevant to fish keeping.

As for the size issue, I wasn't really wondering captive size so much, as the size these fish typically reach. Depending on the field research applied by your source, a fish can typically reach anywhere from it's record size, to a smaller average size. A good example is alligator gars. The record is like 10 feet, however, that is more because of genetics IMO because most alligator gars in the wild never reach that size. Another example is humans. The world's tallest man is obviously much taller than average adult size of the typical human, and human society cannot be based on the size that the largest human in history was.

So yes, there has been 2 ft carapo knives, but is this typical adult size in the wild or captivity? Or is that the largest size recorded?

Also, may I ask where you are getting your scholarly articles from? I am limited to google scholar, and my schools online database which seems to suck because it is based more on scholarly responses to simple literature. Any ideas are always welcome, because I do try to learn the wild biology of fish that I find interest in when available.