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[bigspizz]

Hmm somehow I missed this tread..great looking lung you have there.
And yes most lungs will kill their tankmates.....and the story about the bad eye sight is true...and no I have not seen this white sheen in their eyes before...but I have Albino's and they have red eyes..But from the pics I have seen on the internet this is not normal.....ow and it won't hurt if you would lower the waterlevel...some how I get the feeling they enjoy a lower waterlevel in their tanks..(this is not written in stone) it it just my observation...if you lower it by 50% it is also harder for it to escape.....you know I have been reading stuf on the internet about lungs being great escapers...but one of my lungs tried to leave the tank when I moved it to his new tank.(he tried it for about a week)..but it only got out of the water about 5 or 6 inches max..and it is a 3 ft lungfish...so I can't realy imagine them being great escape artist...but again this is just my observation and not written in stone..maybe my lungs are just stupid...who knows......

p.s. please ignore the spelling I'm not a native speaker.

Thank you so much for the "fine" tune info. That is the exact kind of stuff I wanted to hear. He pokes and prods at the top of the tank obsessively. I have the water about 2" below the brace, so he has ample room to breath. He swims like a normal fish Most of the day in fact. He is probably just feeling out his environment. Did anyone else see the cloudiness to his eyes? Do they bang the glass at all? I know they don't like to be moved much. What size tank should he be in at 17" All the pics I see or the tanks they are kept in are SOOOOOO small. Why is this? I now have him in an 80 by himself and he looks good. I of course would put him In a smaller tank if I am over killing it. I have a 3ft long rubber maid, that is 17" wide would that work for him? Sorry about the book...lol

 

[GriF]

Thank you so much for the "fine" tune info. That is the exact kind of stuff I wanted to hear. He pokes and prods at the top of the tank obsessively. I have the water about 2" below the brace, so he has ample room to breath. He swims like a normal fish Most of the day in fact. He is probably just feeling out his environment. Did anyone else see the cloudiness to his eyes? Do they bang the glass at all? I know they don't like to be moved much. What size tank should he be in at 17" All the pics I see or the tanks they are kept in are SOOOOOO small. Why is this? I now have him in an 80 by himself and he looks good. I of course would put him In a smaller tank if I am over killing it. I have a 3ft long rubber maid, that is 17" wide would that work for him? Sorry about the book...lol

naah keep it in the 80..more fun to watch..and more fun for your lung.
My lung used to swim all day when I moved him to his new tank..he did this for weeks...he hardly ate (only algae waffers and life food, I actually stoped feeding life food to my fish..had some problems with it..) now he is back to normal and more realaxed...and eats like a pig again...
mine are in custom tanks 5 ft x 2,5 x2,5...Will go bigger in a year or so.
7x3 ft or 6 x 4ft...I also have to look at my filters...I totally screwed up there. I used lungproof PVC and connected this to, two eheim pro3 thermo.
I used to have 2 eheim filters on 1 tank but the current was to strong..so I removed 1..
The PCV is lung proof it survived some big beatings from my lungs...but when they bump in to them my lungs hurt themselfs and now have some marks on their heads..both even fcked up one of their eyes because of this..
(it has a black eye now) ...the black eyed lung...I coved the PVC with a big rubber hose they use in trucks last weekend. I hope this will work out for them.