lets see them perches!

[robroy]

I imagine you're referring to what we call a Mouth Almighty?

It's actually one of the only freshwater cardinal fish in the world. They're morphologically interesting, and have pretty cool colours (if you're into greens and browns), but as an aquarium fish, they sort of leave a bit to be desired.

They're nocturnal, so you don't seem them often, they're very sedentary, and you'll more than likely never actually see one feed. They'll also eat things almost their own size, which I'm sure none of you perch keepers are surprised about. The one thing that really turns me off about them is their total lack of balls.

That's right, they're pathetic. They don't fight back when a fish of the same size charges them, so they just skulk off and eventually either starve to death, or run out of places to skulk to and die. So I suppose they'd be good in a quiet, community tank full of non-obtrusive and inexpensive tankmates. Otherwise, they're a bit of a waste of filtration capacity to be honest.

Thats interesting-the pics I've seen of them I really like. Found one for sale here at last-5-6 cms & £80-but I don't feel so tempted now

 

[Piscineidiot]

Thats interesting-the pics I've seen of them I really like. Found one for sale here at last-5-6 cms & £80-but I don't feel so tempted now

80 pounds?

I certainly wouldn't be paying that much for one. Not unless I had a tank that I wanted to commit to keeping those alone. They look cool, but 80 pounds is one hell of a price for a fish like that. Mind you, where I live, they're free, but even then, I don't go out of my way to keep them.

 

[Nic]

Li wins.... any east coastguy got a extra chinese perch to spare???

 

[ermgravy]

not quite nic... first person to post a cracking pic of a big Japanese perch wins! dam, get it right....

my nile anit exactly ur common nile either ... not quite a color morph as such but.... more sub sp.... wide-eye

ive got find my cam this week end!!! and catch him with his gold flecks out...

 

[channarox]

not quite nic... first person to post a cracking pic of a big Japanese perch wins! dam, get it right....

my nile anit exactly ur common nile either ... not quite a color morph as such but.... more sub sp.... wide-eye

ive got find my cam this week end!!! and catch him with his gold flecks out...

agreed!
i think either fugu or neo has a large japanese perch.

 

[ssjas]

Here is a few pics of my grunter. Sorry for bad quality but i don't have any tanklights for this tank. His new tank gets moved inside in a couple of weeks tho and it has lights so will hopefully post better pics then.

 

[channarox]

nice.
not a coal grunter right?

 

[ssjas]

Nah, this is a sooty. Hephaestus fuliginosus or something like that.

 

[Dudzy]

I'm jealous, I wanna get a Sooty.

 

[ermgravy]

wicked sooty! what are there temprament like?

and i found the camera now just waiting for for the lates mariae to color up and stop looking so much like a Lates niloticus it spend 99% of its time looking very niloticus with big eyes then u walk in the room once a day to see its true potential! im not posting pics untill they do it justice!