Pics of your arapaima gigas

[Luc70]

Guys, you will freak out on this picture, taken by one of my sales-ladies, but this is what we had in our stormdrain after the flooding subsided.
Now, in case anyone says..you where lucky that you took it out, it will die very soon and what all more..

This fish has been in that stormdrain since the end of November 2011..
This stormdrain was and still is..blocked to prevent any rubbish getting onto the public system.
the particular section it was in was only 1.5x1.5 meters I estimate...about 2m deep.
Anybody who can help me with advise and tips on how to keep it going for at least a couple of weeks, please let me know.

Planning on digging a meter deep 3x5m pond with sandbags around it and a big Trailer/Truck cover as pond-base.

Next I need to know more on food/feeding it.

Last but not least, any advise you have, please let me know.

His current house is a 500 liter Wheely Bin, about 1.5m long.. 70cm wide I estimate..
There's more water in there now, after the picture was taken.






A Picture attached, clearly you can see the typical pattern for an Arapaima on the tail...

 

[brich999]

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

100 for one feeder or I can get 3000 for the same price. I wouldn't worry