Pics of your arapaima gigas

[Eupterus]

I hope shops don't start selling arapaimas on a regular basis. I doubt a there's a batch of people with 52,000 gal tanks ready in one town for housing their arapaima(s). We don't need this fish in the trade for regular ole "Joe Public" to buy. Unless maybe in tropical countries where the arapaimas can go right outdoors into a pond.

 

[pharmaecopia]

I hope shops don't start selling arapaimas on a regular basis. I doubt a there's a batch of people with 52,000 gal tanks ready in one town for housing their arapaima(s). We don't need this fish in the trade for regular ole "Joe Public" to buy. Unless maybe in tropical countries where the arapaimas can go right outdoors into a pond.

To a degree the price of the fish would act a deterent. $100 for a small 3" fish is not what the average aquarist is willing to spend. If you don't find this alot for a fish you're probably not a beginner.

 

[wantokeeptrout]

yeah, big als, I personally think it's pretty dumb as almost nobody is willing to eep one to its full size.

 

[SimonL]

They're extremely delicate at that size too. When it gets too big, eat it . The babies are likely coming from food farms anyways

 

[troppond]

this is a wierd thought but what if someone went out and bought a baby paima at like 3 inches and fed it to one of thier fishes as a joke... that would be horrible. But besides thier size, aren't they relatively easy to keep, like do they need any special requirements or anything like dicus, because I thought they were really amazing survivors, like how they breath air and have really hard scales and all

 

[bosanova]

They're extremely delicate at that size too. When it gets too big, eat it . The babies are likely coming from food farms anyways

let's face it most fish keepers look at a pima w/envy when you take into consideration the magnificence of the creature , coloration , provenance, size etc, after all how many fish out there can have a full third of his body in bright red those of us who do not look at the majestic pima as the ceiling of fish keeping are simply missing out on this experience, or perhabs just really had not been in presence of a n adult one, and never mind dumping one or two in a pond, i meant raising one in an aquarium setting ,real men or women who can afford it ask for pima LOL ,my friend owns one i go by his place almost daily for a peek i m there now posting this piece and drooling . wait, did i mention that Pima is the most gentle giant in the world ,what do u think

 

[bosanova]

To a degree the price of the fish would act a deterent. $100 for a small 3" fish is not what the average aquarist is willing to spend. If you don't find this alot for a fish you're probably not a beginner.

make sense though,however even those who ought to know better sometimes do get carried away .

 

[krichardson]

this is a wierd thought but what if someone went out and bought a baby paima at like 3 inches and fed it to one of thier fishes as a joke...

That is a wierd thought and I don't understand how it would be a joke.

 

[troppond]

like put it on utube to just piss a bunch of ppl off

 

[ctoychik]

wow - everyone at 6'. mine is at 4' (both of them). pix taken last Oct. surprisingly does not grow that fast after 3' but then i don't power feed.