I'm extremely curious about this. I think this is the greatest "ancient fish" of all time.
Has anyone successfully raised a Coelacanth in captivity?
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When I was a kid I was into dinosaurs and had a huge sticker book that I tried to fill. One of the stickers was of the coelocanth. It was thought to be extinct, hence it being in a dinosaur book. But years later they found out it wasn't extinct at all! And nowadays there's a fair bit of footage of them online. As far as keeping them in captivity i'm not sure though with a quick search i'm sure you'll get your answer.
Incidentally, two other "extinct" animals were in that dinosaur sticker book, the "aye aye", a small mammal from New Zealand and the "tuatara", a small reptile, again from New Zealand.
Both have since been found doing well in the wild. Haha, not much of a dinosaur book then eh.
Incidentally, two other "extinct" animals were in that dinosaur sticker book, the "aye aye", a small mammal from New Zealand and the "tuatara", a small reptile, again from New Zealand.
Both have since been found doing well in the wild. Haha, not much of a dinosaur book then eh.
This brings hope that we will find other “extinct animals” still alive and kicking. How about some velociraptors in the jungle or Sabre tooth tigers in the tundra.....
Don't get carried away matt, i'm quite happy with them finding small toothed/clawed animals. But I draw the line at something that could eat me!! They can stay dead.
In fact OP i'm pretty sure when
fishhead0103666
first came to the forum he said he had a coelocanth in a 75g. He was doing and saying a lot of crazy things back then. Can you clear this one up for us fishhead?
fishhead0103666
first came to the forum he said he had a coelocanth in a 75g. He was doing and saying a lot of crazy things back then. Can you clear this one up for us fishhead?I might be wrong, but I believe they are a deep sea fish. As in you can't take them from the ocean without them dying shortly after because the increased pressure keeps them stable.
That would be news to a lot of people given that there are no native mammals in NZ other than some bats and seals. And also because the Aye Aye is from Madagascar.
You, my friend, are spot on. As soon as I pressed "post reply" I realised what i'd put. I was banking on nobody noticing but they're a clever bunch on here.
