Dragon Fish

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Gobrian44

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Do any of you guys or gals keep/have kept Dragon Fish. Heard about them and want to see how common they were. Any info would be very helpful.

Scientific Name: Gobioides broussonnetii

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dragon fish? the brackish ones? well my friend has one.
dragon fish also means arowanas sometimes to
 
Need brackish water or they won't last long i have learned that. They are amazing, really look like dragons! but they do need brackish water. If you can do a proper set up i would say go for it!
 
what dragon fish do you specifically mean? arowanas are dragon fishes. and there are a bunch of others.
 
He gave the scientific name, there shouldnt be any questions about which kind?!

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seen 'em up to 18" , contrary to their looks they're not an aggresive predetory fish in most peoples view of the deffinition. They are essentially filter type feeders who comb the bottom like most gobies do, hence the other common name. and pick up fine meaty foods. always had them at work, deffinately brackish. frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp where their staple and a HQ marine flake was offered as well. which they usually took to pretty easy. sand bottom or fine gravel seemed to be the best with them for substrate, non-aggresive tankmates. and ideally 55 gal + for a home. personally i found them pretty boreing, so never took one home. they do look interesting and would prolly eat small fish like molly fry if given the chance, but i'm not sure.
 
2004exrider;3257928; said:
He gave the scientific name, there shouldnt be any questions about which kind?!

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Thank god for you or this would have turned into a wasted thread lol

Thanks for all the info!!
 
Wow I figured more people would have such an interesting fish...

I have a 12" Dragon named Snakeman. (original i know lol) We got him about a year ago and he has been one of the most neat fish to watch. He lives in a clear tube most of the time. The tube was a replacement end for a vacuum hose, but I can't find it in my heart to take it away from him. We have sand as the substrate and the only fish that he didn't get along with was our yo yo loach who decided that he liked the taste of Snakeman. After that we got rid of the loach. Snakeman wouldn't hurt a fly, let alone small fish like guppies. We have two of the tiney shell dwellers, (can't think of their name) and they are not even an inch full grown. He leaves them a long. His best friend is a cray fish that has been with him for most of the year we had him. At feeding time, he will wait for me to put the blood worms at the beginning of his tube and start moving like a snake making the water push thru the tube. Then he opens his mouth and sifts. Anything he misses, he stops the water flow, and then backs up and starts again. It's fun to watch him swim around and sift thru the sand. They are not aggresive unless you put another Dragon in, but even then they don't have much to fight with, so they can't really inflict much damage on anyone. They just look like dorks wrestling. He will let me touch him and I got to feel his teeth yesterday, creepy, but cool. My crayfish likes to walk on top of the half hidden tube, and usually Snakeman's head is poking out of the end, so when the crab walks on his head, he will push him down the side of the tank like, " Stooooooooop iiiiiiiiit." He even lets the Clown Loach pack hide in his tube too. I don't keep the tank as brackish as some ( but there is some salt in there of course) becuase of the loaches, but we haven't had any issues with the amount of brackish-ness :) I hadn't thought that he would be so cool, but he is (to me). I hope this helped a bit :)

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