hoplias species buried in the substrate ?

[limz_777]

Does your hoplias buried themself into the substrate ?

 

[jelly]

no not yet.

 

[lix.ma14]

i doon't think so.

 

[BM80]

When i had my smaller 8" Aimara i observed that once in awhile it would do this, and sometimes even right under a piece of driftwood so that only its head would be poking out as if waiting for a fish to just swim by then SNAP!

 

[Kaliedoscope]

I read somewhere about this desert in south america, it was a floodplain for the rio negro or something but it just looked like sand dunes. Ergo, it filled up with water half of the year and then the sand dunes became temporary lakes. Annual killifish and crustaceons, plants etc would populate it but the apex predator was some species of wolffish. They would bury themselves in mud beneath the pond half of the year when the pond dried up, and in the rainy season they would eat all these temporary animals and breed before the pond dried up again.

 

[limz_777]

I read somewhere about this desert in south america, it was a floodplain for the rio negro or something but it just looked like sand dunes. Ergo, it filled up with water half of the year and then the sand dunes became temporary lakes. Annual killifish and crustaceons, plants etc would populate it but the apex predator was some species of wolffish. They would bury themselves in mud beneath the pond half of the year when the pond dried up, and in the rainy season they would eat all these temporary animals and breed before the pond dried up again.

any link on the article ?

 

[limz_777]

here is a pic to share

 

[limz_777]

was doing some replanting due to uprooting today , finally get to see the aimara digging in , a similar style of a congo puffer , swimming head in .


is there still attachment pic error going on ?

 

[bomber]

Very unique indeed.

 

[limz_777]

yes apparently common malas does estivate during dry season , guess aimara does this as well