How BIG is Your BIGGEST MONSTER.......
- Thread starter Red Devil
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nice treat to wake up to this am and see all these new pics..thanks for sharing all these sweet monsters... what a joy to see ... thanks everyone.
keep those monster pics coming..
keep those monster pics coming..
filiportela;832532; said:mine is my pangassius sanitwonsei, he is 80cmshave a lot that will be a lot bigger, but at the moment this is it, and trust me it's big and large in real life..
these pics are old, from an year ago i think, he is now even bigger eheheh
He is awesome..reminds me of the deep when i see him... gorgeous and threatening together in one word...
pacu mom;832682; said:Here are our boys. Sorry about the flash. I just got my camera and am figuring out how to use it.
Adonis
Without the flash or with the flash does not matter..the glimmer of gold on their scales is beautiful... they look so good.. i am happy that all those who rescue these guys get as much joy from them as i do.. i have read all the posts on everyones explanation of their personality ..and no one knows how great they are but the people who own these monster babys..
pacu mom;832766; said:300 gallon. We're in a wait and see mode on the tank. We'll probably have to go bigger in the future. I think the pacu are about 20 inches--it's hard to tell, they turn and face us if we approach the tank. They are rescued fish which my husband picked up at a moving away yard sale. This is what he brought home in a 55 gallon tank:
After spending hours every day doing 100% water changes and vacuuming out poop in that 55 gallon tank, we were determined to have an easy maintenance system. This required a bare bottom tank. Our big tank has been running for 13 months now. With very innovative mechanical plumbing, there has not been any debris or feces to vacuum out of the tank....There are two large plecos also in the tank. The tank is undecorated, because the pacu tend to freak out and go berserk. For us, the fish are decoration enough, and we know they have a good home with excellent water parameters.
We rescued ours as well....They were in a 90 gallon and were transported (a 3 hour ride) by the previous owner basically standing on their noses in 5 gallon buckets, to our local fish store where they stayed for a few weeks...We kept going to see them...they were so cute...We felt we could give them a good home....We live in a fairly small city and there isn't many people willing to take on large fish....There is a thread on MFK about a Stingray and a Peacock Bass that are in OUR local fish store and they Basically can't give them away....it's sad...I wish I could rescue them as well. We are committed to them and will do what we need to to for them in the future. We are in the process of getting a custom built tank for them...for now we had to concentrate on getting them settled.
They are sweet fish.
I just removed all of my rocks on the bottom....I like the look and it is easier to keep clean....i think i'm going to stick with it.
IMHO...only Pacu owners can understand Pacu owners LOL
invokethegoddess;833091; said:
In August 2005, I came home to the sound of running water and discovered a tank chock full with eight large fish, two pacu, 4 large oscars and 2 12"+ plecos). This was my husband's biggest yard sale find ever. He took our largest pots and put each fish in a pot. The pacu had to be 15". One pacu jumped out of his pot which was sitting on the tailgate of hubby's '63 chevy pickup truck. He groveled in the gravel for a while, was picked up, dusted off and placed back in his pot. Once home, hubby scoured the grossly dirty tank, gravel and filter (one HOB). He then filled the tank with chlorinated water and put the eight fish back into their now "clean" home. We got online that night to figure out which were the pacu and which were the oscars. We were totally ignorant newbies and made many mistakes until we learned the basics of fishkeeping. Sadly, one of the oscars, Sam, died from HITH. It's a wonder we didn't have more fatalities, because it took a awhile before I understood the nitrogen cycle. The water is kept in pristine condition with excellent parameters. We keep a log of every test performed. I joined five different fish forums to learn about our fish and to get help setting up our big tank. The only answers we got about filtration was that we needed a lot and that we could never have too much. We have come a very long way since August 2005.
Even though we didn't get to raise them from babies, our rescued adopted fish have become a beloved and integral part of our family. We take our commitment to them seriously. Here's a couple more pics. (I'm disgusted that I can't figure out my new camera--it even has an aquarium mode, but I can't find it--too many bells and whistles--and the 168 page book doesn't even have an explanation for the the abreviations).so the pics aren't great
Big Daddy
Me First
Fish Convention
Move Over
