purchasing a bowfin
- Thread starter Behemoth
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If I were you. I'd buy an adult or catch one. Most of the ones for sale, are juviniles and they are stuffed full of tapeworms. The tapeworms will kill the fish.
meepster;1530954; said:
I don't think trying to get people to convert an adult wild bowfin to tank life is good advice. Honestly baby bowfin are not necessarily riddled with parasites but it can happen just as adults can have parasites.
Young bowfin will be available pretty soon.
teleost;1531014; said:
yeah, the wild ones are pretty damn wild.
i catch them here in mn regularly, anywhere from 3-8lbs. never caught a baby though.
teleost;1531014; said:
Sorry, I used a poor choice of words. I didn't mean adult. Just make sure the bowfin you are getting has been in captivity for a couple months so that the ones stuffed full of tapeworms are sorted out when they die.
meepster;1539100; said:
What kills them more often than Parasites on obtaining them is keeping them wrong.. While there is one paper online that talks about all this tapeworm stuff there is little evidence to back this in every situation and in every fish. I have raised hundreds of Bowfin from various localities and can truly only attribute maybe at best 5 to 10 losses directly due to parasites.
One sample from one group of fish By one person is not the standard for the species or every locality... Please be accurate in your statements and if experience is lacking let those with experience speak rather than giving out misinformation.
Bowfin will be available very soon so please stand by, Winter is not really the time to find them as they are only minimally aquacultured.....
Polypterus;1541310; said:What kills them more often than Parasites on obtaining them is keeping them wrong.. While there is one paper online that talks about all this tapeworm stuff there is little evidence to back this in every situation and in every fish. I have raised hundreds of Bowfin from various localities and can truly only attribute maybe at best 5 to 10 losses directly due to parasites.
One sample from one group of fish By one person is not the standard for the species or every locality... Please be accurate in your statements and if experience is lacking let those with experience speak rather than giving out misinformation.
Bowfin will be available very soon so please stand by, Winter is not really the time to find them as they are only minimally aquacultured.....
Translation: "Let me tell other people how to keep native fish, not you."
ewurm;1541335; said:
No Eric.. that is Let people that have actually kept the fish tell you how and not just someone that read something and wants to make themselves sound like they know anything give out useless information..
