perches?

[Taboojen]

I came across some some baby barrimundis for $7.5 each. Tempting though. I know they can easily outgrow most tanks - getting up to 5ft. Are there any other particular types of Perches that could live in a 180-240 gal tank? Perhaps something that maxes out at around 24-30"?

 

[rallysman]

I came across some some baby barrimundis for $7.5 each. Tempting though. I know they can easily outgrow most tanks - getting up to 5ft. Are there any other particular types of Perches that could live in a 180-240 gal tank? Perhaps something that maxes out at around 24-30"?

Siniperca Chuatsi!! (chinese perch)

Here is mine @ abou 20"

They max around 24" and have the personality of an oscar. By far one of my favorite fish.

 

[Taboojen]

That's a beautiful fish you have there Rallysman. Must have cost a lots of bling bling? lol. Yeah. I haven't seen a chinese perch for sale anywhere local in a long long time.

Siniperca Chuatsi!! (chinese perch)

Here is mine @ abou 20"

They max around 24" and have the personality of an oscar. By far one of my favorite fish.

 

[soulFish]

very nice indeed!

 

[cichlaguapote]

Nice perch rallys.. bet that was hard to find..

 

[M|L]

there are many "perch-like" fishes out there.

datnoids for example. nandus, leaf fish, grunters, etc.

 

[sandtiger]

"Perches" is a generic common name given to a large number of fish. Many of them not related. If you want to get scientific though about 40% of all the worlds fishes could be called perches. That's because the order Perciformes (perch-like) is the largest order of vertebrates on the planet. This order includes sunfishes, snooks, cichlids, billfish, snappers, gobies, barracuda, tuna, snakeheads and a ton of other fish families. Within this order though there is the family Percidae and I guess if there were such this as "true perches" these guys would be it. This family includes darters, yellow perch, ruffe, walleye, zander etc. But anyway, I'll get to my point. The term "perch" is a term used loosly, like the term "shark" with freshwater catfishes and cyprinids. Not all perches are perches. The white perch is a member of the temperate bass family. The climbing perch is a gourami, the Sacramento perch is a sunfish.

 

[AquataHolic420]

"Perches" is a generic common name given to a large number of fish. Many of them not related. If you want to get scientific though about 40% of all the worlds fishes could be called perches. That's because the order Perciformes (perch-like) is the largest order of vertebrates on the planet. This order includes sunfishes, snooks, cichlids, billfish, snappers, gobies, barracuda, tuna, snakeheads and a ton of other fish families. Within this order though there is the family Percidae and I guess if there were such this as "true perches" these guys would be it. This family includes darters, yellow perch, ruffe, walleye, zander etc. But anyway, I'll get to my point. The term "perch" is a term used loosly, like the term "shark" with freshwater catfishes and cyprinids. Not all perches are perches. The white perch is a member of the temperate bass family. The climbing perch is a gourami, the Sacramento perch is a sunfish.

Set me straight all right.

 

[Taboojen]

"Perches" is a generic common name given to a large number of fish. Many of them not related. If you want to get scientific though about 40% of all the worlds fishes could be called perches. That's because the order Perciformes (perch-like) is the largest order of vertebrates on the planet. This order includes sunfishes, snooks, cichlids, billfish, snappers, gobies, barracuda, tuna, snakeheads and a ton of other fish families. Within this order though there is the family Percidae and I guess if there were such this as "true perches" these guys would be it. This family includes darters, yellow perch, ruffe, walleye, zander etc. But anyway, I'll get to my point. The term "perch" is a term used loosly, like the term "shark" with freshwater catfishes and cyprinids. Not all perches are perches. The white perch is a member of the temperate bass family. The climbing perch is a gourami, the Sacramento perch is a sunfish.

Thanks for the clarification. Yeah. I have always associated the term "perches" with fishes similar in appearance / general body shape with that of the yellow perch, nile perch, chinese perch, and barramundi -- The fishes with the bony Dorsal fins and a relatively pointy/hard snout.

So what are the distinguishing feature that lends to the classification of a true perch from the Percidae family? (Is this the same of the so called Bony-fish classification?)

I'm curious, as I do not know much about them and would love to learn more. I haven't seen many of the so-called true perches in person, but it seems that a lot of MFKers who have or are currently keeping them love them.

I've looked online, but some of the info out there seems kind of shotty. I figure, why seek the opinions of the expert hobbyist here.

 

[islander671]

Siniperca Chuatsi!! (chinese perch)

Here is mine @ abou 20"

They max around 24" and have the personality of an oscar. By far one of my favorite fish.

Wow was that the skinny guy you had? looks like hes doing well and beefing up! (sorry to derail..)