fw moray eel

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shut up. i guess if i ask can a freshwater barracuda be kept in salt your gonna tell me there is no such thing as a freshwater barracuda lol. get a life and stop trying to be the kings of the fishboard lol
 
SharptoothBass;5054384; said:
shut up. i guess if i ask can a freshwater barracuda be kept in salt your gonna tell me there is no such thing as a freshwater barracuda lol. get a life and stop trying to be the kings of the fishboard lol
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well, you're wrong again.

a saltwater barracuda is from the genus Sphyraenidae, while the freshwater barracudas are not real barracudas, but really members of the characin family.

so yes, a real barracuda can live in saltwater, whereas i wouldn't put a characin into a saltwater tank.

the term freshwater barracuda is an adopted term by fish stores trying to sell stock, much like the abused and incorrect "teacup stingray" term.
 
see this is what i mean i posted a totally sarcastic statement about barracudas and yet another mfk expert jumps at the chance show his vast knowledge of fish. im done with this you people are funny as s***
 
Ah. So since Fire Eels are called eels, they really are eels, and when you call a ray finned fish a rainbow shark, it's calcified skeleton magically turns into cartilage. Thank you for clarifying why fish dictate their behavior based on their common name.
 
man this is getting hilarious. the problem is you want to rename fish point blank the common name for my eel is freshwater moray. even though you may not consider fire eels to be eels the whole family in know as spiney eels. even though fw barracudas are not barracudas everyone has a general idea what group of fish your speaking of when you mention fw cuda . so it all boyles down to every ? is not as complicated as you guys try to make it. if you were really experts and trying to be helpful like you say there would have been one simple answer to my ? yes because i have found out days after my first post by calling my local aquarium that all eels known as freshwater morays can also survive in full salt. so cut the bs
 
next time someone post about a tiger barb ill be sure to let them know that they are not really tigers before i answer thier ?
 
SharptoothBass;5055258; said:
next time someone post about a tiger barb ill be sure to let them know that they are not really tigers before i answer thier ?
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they're called tiger barbs because of their patterning, not because they are a species of tiger :P

totally different than mixing up fw and sw species of fish. i'm sure people would not go into a fish store and mistake a tiger barb for a large cat. your point is moot. a new person in the hobby would more easily confuse fw and sw barracudas into being the same species, likewise with eels, because of the false names.

the reason you found out that it can live in saltwater is because it DOES. they don't live in freshwater for more than short periods, so cannot be called a freshwater eel.

THAT is the point that was being made, and you were too daft to recognize it without getting your panties in a bunch.
 
SharptoothBass;5055246; said:
man this is getting hilarious. the problem is you want to rename fish point blank the common name for my eel is freshwater moray. even though you may not consider fire eels to be eels the whole family in know as spiney eels. even though fw barracudas are not barracudas everyone has a general idea what group of fish your speaking of when you mention fw cuda . so it all boyles down to every ? is not as complicated as you guys try to make it. if you were really experts and trying to be helpful like you say there would have been one simple answer to my ? yes because i have found out days after my first post by calling my local aquarium that all eels known as freshwater morays can also survive in full salt. so cut the bs
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Common names are not set in stone, so while your G. polyuranodon's common name is the FW moray, the common name for G. tile (which is much more common in the aquarium trade) is also FW moray. Since you were writing about the FW moray, the assumption would be you are referring to G. tile which is usually called Fw moar, Fw snowflake, or some other derivative. You can't blame people for assuming you were referring to polyuranodon, which is not a common species at all, which very few people on here even keep, which is a sharp contrast to G tile which it sometimes seems everyone on the brackish forum keeps.
 
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