Houndfish and remora shark

[twin_caleb]

So I have never kept a saltwater fish ever, but I have seen a couple fish in the past two or three months that caught my interest...not that I would want to keep them, but they looked cool and I wondered if anyone has before

The first one is a houndfish...looks exactly like a needle fish only 2 or 3 feet long and is a salt water fish...With it's size i would assume it would need a tank that could inhabit your smaller sharks that are most common in aquaria

The other fish I saw at my local lfs and was called a remora shark...alsp fresh water and looked like it was upsidedown..they told me that, that was how they normally looked...neone ever keep one...just curious as it was a cool looking fish

 

[likestofish]

remoras get huge as in 4 feet i caught one while deep sea fishing and it was easy two feet and the captain called it a little one. You need at least 400 gallons.

 

[The1and only]

The other fish I saw at my local lfs and was called a remora shark...alsp fresh water and looked like it was upsidedown..they told me that, that was how they normally looked...neone ever keep one...just curious as it was a cool looking fish

I hope that is a typo cause Remora's are salt water fish. My LFS has one as well and I considered buying it and converting a 1000 gallon pond to salt but found out his would be to small for one specimen. They get huge and the one that I saw apparently is very typical of the species to be a food disposal. It eats everything that hits the water. They look upside down because they attach themselves to sharks in the wild and feed off the bits and pieces that don't make it in to the sharks mouth. There are members here who have kept them succesfully so it can be done. You would just need over a 1000 gallon habitat (cause they are very active fish at over 4' long) and be prepared to have a huge food bill.

 

[Jeox]

Yeah, I've been raising a remora for a while now. They get huge, but are not usually that active (assuming they have a decent place to hang on to) aside from when food hits the water. They can be pretty aggressive, and will outcompete most other fish for food.

 

[twin_caleb]

I hope that is a typo cause Remora's are salt water fish. My LFS has one as well and I considered buying it and converting a 1000 gallon pond to salt but found out his would be to small for one specimen. They get huge and the one that I saw apparently is very typical of the species to be a food disposal. It eats everything that hits the water. They look upside down because they attach themselves to sharks in the wild and feed off the bits and pieces that don't make it in to the sharks mouth. There are members here who have kept them succesfully so it can be done. You would just need over a 1000 gallon habitat (cause they are very active fish at over 4' long) and be prepared to have a huge food bill.

yeah sorry that was a typo...not thinking of keeping one just wondered if neone on here had kept one since they are pretty cool looking