Living in okinawa, i have learned to check all my LFS and keep a keen eye on the local classifieds for people who are getting rid of fish that may end up in sewers that could lead the charge for a 669 here in japan.
SO! a few weeks ago i walk into a LFS, and begin to browse as most would do on an early sunday morning. I notice that the feeder frogs had been moved from their usual location, and a rather large shape beating its wing-like pectoral fins in a strong, rythmic fashion to stay at the absolute furthest point in the tank from everything. After a closer look,
12" of gorgeous payara is staring me down. Though upon observation i had realized the white marks of abrasions, undoubtedly from the previous owner mishandling the poor dude (dude is his name) from tank to the LFS, AND the white fungal spores abound on scale and fin...poor dude.
As i approach the counter and begin to speak with my japanese counter-part (aha!) we pan out that the fish is in fact for sale
, and i begin to inquire the price of the wonderful specimen. Now for those of you who do not know the japanese currency, instead of dollars and cents, its yen, so think of yen as cents. This is always confusing, because everyone says things differently, he says "1000." I say 
"what?!?" I thought $1000, nope 1000yen, so after ten minutes of broken convo, i paid the man 10 USD/1000yen, and went about redoing all my tank profiles so he could have a decent tank to normalize in.
SOO to wrap it up, i moved my small scomb to a smaller tank (he needed a good blackout anyhow to get his eating going again...which he is now.) I have treated his handling wounds with great success and his ick is clearing very well. Thanks for reading and see if you can identify the dude for me, and if you could take the time to reccomend his next habitat with designs, pics, or otherwise itd be great...cuz ive never owned this big a predator so help me out!
Later!
Seth
SO! a few weeks ago i walk into a LFS, and begin to browse as most would do on an early sunday morning. I notice that the feeder frogs had been moved from their usual location, and a rather large shape beating its wing-like pectoral fins in a strong, rythmic fashion to stay at the absolute furthest point in the tank from everything. After a closer look,
12" of gorgeous payara is staring me down. Though upon observation i had realized the white marks of abrasions, undoubtedly from the previous owner mishandling the poor dude (dude is his name) from tank to the LFS, AND the white fungal spores abound on scale and fin...poor dude. As i approach the counter and begin to speak with my japanese counter-part (aha!) we pan out that the fish is in fact for sale
, and i begin to inquire the price of the wonderful specimen. Now for those of you who do not know the japanese currency, instead of dollars and cents, its yen, so think of yen as cents. This is always confusing, because everyone says things differently, he says "1000." I say "what?!?" I thought $1000, nope 1000yen, so after ten minutes of broken convo, i paid the man 10 USD/1000yen, and went about redoing all my tank profiles so he could have a decent tank to normalize in. SOO to wrap it up, i moved my small scomb to a smaller tank (he needed a good blackout anyhow to get his eating going again...which he is now.) I have treated his handling wounds with great success and his ick is clearing very well. Thanks for reading and see if you can identify the dude for me, and if you could take the time to reccomend his next habitat with designs, pics, or otherwise itd be great...cuz ive never owned this big a predator so help me out!
Later!
Seth
anyway u got a small tank.. u need a bigger one