Luciosoma spilopleura...aka Apollo Shark

[Peanut_Power]

Hey!! One of the LFS around here had one of these for sale, it was about 8" long. Never seen one before, it was kinda kewl looking. I got a very limited amount of info on it, so i was wondering if anyone has seen them or kept them before! Thankz!
J

 

[rayman45]

cool looking fish..... keep us updated on their temperment

 

[Peanut_Power]

I didn't get it...hahaa.....wanted to research it first....

 

[ewurm]

Cool fish, thanks for sharing.

 

[ewurm]

Found this info:

http://fins.actwin.com/species/apollo_shark.html

 

[Peanut_Power]

Ha!! one site said they should be kept solo, this one said a group! They do look kewl and they would be better than balas IMO...cuz they look bigger and faster. Awesome little fishie. Thinkin about gettin a group for dithers now!

 

[Honda12]

Those are pretty cool. You should get a group of them.

 

[labeo]

Yeah i have a couple, there great fish for the upper levels of the aquarium.

 

[Cichlas]

Yeah, cool top level fish. I had 3, two arround 10" and one around 7". As luck would have it, the second pic you posted is one of my pics Never had any problems with them, although I've heard stories of them being quite aggressive. Maybe I had no probs with mine because they were smaller than everything else in the tank.

 

[Jesse]

I had around nine 6"+ apollo sharks that I got from Harold (Oddballer). They were great surface fish before my datnoids ate them all.

Be careful--they are jumpers and will jump through very small cracks!