new aimara, need some tips please..

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Well I've got my fingers crossed! My ultimate goal with my specimen is to grow her into the largest aimara in captivity. The largest one I've heard of was just over 33". With a quality diet and aggressive water changes, I think it is reasonable to assume my specimen can get ~40"+ (assuming her genetics will allow it). Her next upgrade from the 240 will be a 720, and she'll be a solo fish the entirety of her life, so she should have quite a bit of room to grow and roam about!

Any chance you could post a few more pics of yours? There's not many pictures of large aimara on this forum, so every one that gets put up is a real treat!
 
its hard to take clear pics because the tank is on terrace, too much glare from sun, I could take night shots later on when I come back home next week. For now I think I have the biggest aimara in my country, because not many people own them here, so its easier to track them. There was one bigger specimen which came earlier than mine to the country, but reportedly died.
 
I think night pictures would be a great idea, lets see em'!

So when you say the tank is on a "terrace", do you mean the tank is set up outside? If so, I'm incredibly jealous of you living in an area where the weather permits you to do such things (I do suppose most of South East Asia is pretty warm)!

Unfortunately its pretty difficult to get a good idea of just how many aimara are here in the US. It seems that a fair number of them are imported every year, but for the amount brought in, there is disappointingly little in the way of discussion, pictures, and most importantly, sharing of knowledge and personal experience. It makes me wonder if the vast majority of people are unsuccessful in keeping them long term, or if they are just so preoccupied with their other specimens that the aimara takes the backseat of discussion.

Either way, its a tragedy.
 
I live in Asia, here are tropical climates through out the year, all we need to worry about is when it comes to raining seasons, normally water parameter become unstable, mostly I use heater on my fish, but I dont realy use any for aimara. This fish is realy tough compare to others. Actually to some people this fish is boring, you'll find this fish just sitting on the bottom of the tank, or else, less active apart from being mad when something is moving infront of it, ie magnet cleaner. Some people gets attracted because of its ferocious characters of this fish, but then again they may find no beauty on this fish. I sometimes think that this is not a fish, lol.
 
Oxydoras said:
Well I've got my fingers crossed! My ultimate goal with my specimen is to grow her into the largest aimara in captivity. The largest one I've heard of was just over 33". With a quality diet and aggressive water changes, I think it is reasonable to assume my specimen can get ~40"+ (assuming her genetics will allow it). Her next upgrade from the 240 will be a 720, and she'll be a solo fish the entirety of her life, so she should have quite a bit of room to grow and roam about!

Any chance you could post a few more pics of yours? There's not many pictures of large aimara on this forum, so every one that gets put up is a real treat!
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33"??? Which is this? Kong?

There's a friggin monster somewhere across seas. The vid was posted here at one point. There's an Aimara that a guy caught rod and reel and brought home. When asked how large it was I believe he replied just shy of 40 pounds when it was caught and he had it in captivity for some time after that. Think it was the same guy that had a shovelnose over 4'.

Definitely don't seem to be the fastest growing things out there, I've had my larger one for like 3 years and it's not 2'. An Armatus caught it in less then half that long.

I still think if your ultimate goal is a huge fish then competition would just help get it there. After experiencing what competition does I've always kept Wolves together......
 
I'm subscribed to someone on YouTube with and aimara and armatus cohabiting in a 8'x4'x30" and claims it is 30"+ and the armatus is somewhere above 2ft doesn't say much . But he shows it eating the aimara eating a 10" fish and it's head doesn't look much smaller if Any then the 10" fish. You can tell the aimara is bigger than the armatus though. His youtube name is "nc33017" idk if he has an account here. I've been reading about aimara for about 5 years since I can't get one I sit back and admire people like you guys, but never have I read a thread where he was in I don't think. Noone ever talks about there 30"+ aimara or posts videos or pics of the one he has in any of the threads I've read. At least not that I remember

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moe214 said:
I'm subscribed to someone on YouTube with and aimara and armatus cohabiting in a 8'x4'x30" and claims it is 30"+ and the armatus is somewhere above 2ft doesn't say much . But he shows it eating the aimara eating a 10" fish and it's head doesn't look much smaller if Any then the 10" fish. You can tell the aimara is bigger than the armatus though. His youtube name is "nc33017" idk if he has an account here. I've been reading about aimara for about 5 years since I can't get one I sit back and admire people like you guys, but never have I read a thread where he was in I don't think. Noone ever talks about there 30"+ aimara or posts videos or pics of the one he has in any of the threads I've read. At least not that I remember

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http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?588935-Armatus-and-Aimara-update
 
very nice combo, now I want an armatus, lol. Gonna be hard to clean that tank though. I mix my aimara with common plecos, they keep the tank clean, and thankfully the beast leave them alone.
 
Should put irwini catfish for cleaning scraps to and yea that's the guy thanks

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