FW bumblebee grouper - In tank shots

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The best I could do...he swims close to the bottom, guess it makes him feel comfortable.
Eating feeders and earthworms
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Taking off, didn't want me taking any more pics:grinno:
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hey rob how big do these guys get?
 
he's awsome if this is one of these you gonna need a bigger tank
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I couldn't find any FW groupers on the sites I checked, including the monsterfish one. So I'd have to say no. There's a lot of good info on the following sites about bumblebee groupers. Although they can be kept in FW for a while, as they grow they need to be put in a marine tank. They aren't naturally FW, but brackish water for juveniles. Groupers are not recommended for home aquaria due to their large size (over 8', 1000 lbs.) and voracious appetite, even eating fish the same size they are.

"Epinephelus lanceolatus is sometimes sold as a freshwater species or claimed to be a “marine species adapted to freshwater”. This is very far from the truth since the Bumblebee grouper is a marine fish living in the ocean. It is however capable of handling brackish conditions and can therefore venture into estuaries and similar. Young specimens are more adaptable than old ones and can even survive in freshwater for a while. Purchasing a Bumblebee grouper for your freshwater aquarium is not recommended. The older your fish becomes, the harder it will be for it to cope with not being in marine conditions. There are aquarium keepers that have kept bumble bee groupers successfully in freshwater for several years but this is not recommended and they will eventually need to be moved to saltwater environment.

If you want to keep a Bumblebee grouper, you must provide it with an aquarium that mimics its natural habitat in the ocean. If possible, give your grouper a suitably sized cave or similar where it can live, just as it would in the wild.

The Bumblebee grouper will not harm corals in the aquarium, but it will eat any fish small enough to defeat. This includes fishes of the same size as the grouper. The Bumblebee grouper is also fond of eating crustaceans."
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http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/sw/bumbl...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_group...)
 
invisyblegypsey;2721058; said:
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Like I said in my other thread-appreciate the concern, but I know all this already. Others before me have raised these fish to very large sizes, in FW.
 
very nice!
 
also, even if you keep him in freshwater, pick up some dried live rock and make him a cave, they will usually hide most of the time, but thats just their thing. my v tail used to perch in his cave all day unless there was food.
 
Indeed this fish only thrives and reaches its ultimate potential in full marine conditions... If they only reach 2' in freshwater, then they must be stunted somehow, I think.

If there is a way to keep it in extremely hard freshwater with a very high pH, I could see it...

I wish I were a better biochemist.
 
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