Just got back from the fish store with this little guy he's no bigger around or as long as your little finger 19 bucks .Thought that was pretty reasonible.He was in the tank no longer than 15 min and has already eaten 2 guppys(that is all the lfs could get him to eat). He is in my 40 gallon for the next few months (2-3) I am ordering a water trough from tsc(tractor supply co ) it is 8 foot in diameter and 2 foot deep(625 gallons) for $269.00 to keep hin in ( will take a week to get here after ordering).Do you think this will be big enough for him ?? filtration will be via a 30 gallon diy pond type filter and a blue line model 70 (1750 gph) Comments suggestions appreciated and welcome.
You could try getting him on market shrimp instead of the guppys, mine eats shrimp very readily compared to other non-live foods.