Lungfish

[rumblesushi]

I know someone with a 2ft african lungfish. not sure exactly what type, but it's all one colour. Just a dark grey.

It can't be kept with anything. They tried it with an 18 inch pleco and it bit the pleco's head off. It also escaped into the next tank and killed 2 endys.

It's cool fish, I've seen it eat, it comes to the surface to feed.

I want that fish I just have nowhere to put it right now.

 

[wism_chan]

Learn something today....so much info on the lung fish.....
Thanks to all Bro....

 

[deD3]

i think its all a guessing game when choosing tankmates. i had mine with a huge pleco about 13-14inches and the next thing i know.pleco's dead. but a small clownknife about 8inches mixed very well with the 2ft bugger

 

[t1nick]

The South American
Lepidosiren paradoxa
Lepidosireniformes: characterized by having thread-like fins and paired lungs.
Family Lepidosirenidae
Genus Lepidosiren
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Lepidosiren paradoxa - South American Lungfish
Freshwater
Subtropical
Temp.76-82F
pH: 4.5-7.5
dH: 0-12
Size:4'
Description:The young look like tadpoles with four external gills. During the first weeks of their life they breath only through the external gills.Within 2 months the gills begin to disapear
and air breathing begins


Tank:Furnish the tank with bog wood and a dark, fine gravel substrate.
There can be subdued lighting and still water. Ideally, woody material should be the most prominent decoration in the tank.and open swimming areas.
Distribution:Argentina,Bolivia, Brazil,Colombia, Fr Guiana, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela
Enviroment: Prefers stagnant waters where there is little current.
Foods:juveniles eat larval insects.Adults:snails, clams and shrimp,algae and plant matter
Plants: Echinodorus tenellus,E. intermedius Cabomba aquatica or myiophyllum brasiliense,Sword plants, Vallisneria, Heteranthera, Ceratophyllum, Lemma, Limnobium,water lettuce,and lemna


Notes: Same as african except they are reported more tolerant of tankmates

Beblondie,

I am a middle-high school science teacher. My colleague and I are setting up an tropical (speciffically South American) animal menagerie for our students. He has a dwarf caiman and I have a mata mata turtle. i would like to set up an amazonian aquarium. I'm working with a local aquariast. I would like to get a 6"-8" S.A. lungfish to go in the Mata mata tank, but do not know a good source to begin looking. Can you suggest a palce to begin looking?

Terry Nickerson

 

[SnaKeheAdSrAwSomE]

5 year old thread. haha.
you can look for an S.A. Lungfish from snookn21.
He's a vendor here.

 

[Wiggles92]

Beblondie,

I am a middle-high school science teacher. My colleague and I are setting up an tropical (speciffically South American) animal menagerie for our students. He has a dwarf caiman and I have a mata mata turtle. i would like to set up an amazonian aquarium. I'm working with a local aquariast. I would like to get a 6"-8" S.A. lungfish to go in the Mata mata tank, but do not know a good source to begin looking. Can you suggest a palce to begin looking?

Terry Nickerson

Please don't put a SAL in with a Mata Mata; the turtle will inevitably kill and/or eat the lungfish.

 

[angryinsect]

Please don't put a SAL in with a Mata Mata; the turtle will inevitably kill and/or eat the lungfish.

x2

 

[Bamboo_Turtles]

The Chelus fimbriatus requires very clean warm dark tannin water . Anything less , they are very prone to shell rot and parasites . It's a fish eater and I'm sure a SA lungfish would be a nice tasty treat . Both are great animals , perhaps you should get two tanks and keep both .