My African Arowana - Heterotis niloticus

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Here's some pictures of my African Arowana in my 150 gallon aquarium. He's about fourteen inches long and moving to my 500 soon. He was missing some of his scales when I got him long ago and the white scars have unfortunately never gone away. But he's awesome! Always on the move and hard to photograph with my bad camera. Sorry about size and quality of pics. Enjoy :)

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Thanks guys. Here are some mini, rapid frame shots of him in motion. You can see how he twists away from the camera like a snake in literally a second.

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wow so many pictures!very nice dark african aro :D
 
Hao;4083025; said:
wow so many pictures!very nice dark african aro :D

Thanks. It's not as many pictures as you'd think. Each sixteen square block is just one camera click. It's just taking rapid mini photos in place of one big one.
 
I paid a private collector from NYC to ship this African Arowana to me when it was small. He had been keeping it with some enormous datnoids and needed to get rid of it, probably due to it being beat up. It arrived with many battle wounds. :irked:
 
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