I'm all about committing to keeping fish long term too, but 20 years is a ridiculous length of time to keep a fish. If I keep Max for 20 years- and I certainly plan to try- my son who was born in January will be a sophomore in college once this time period is over. Think about it like that. I have the best of intentions, but I honestly don't know if I'll be able to make it happen.
Whats the ULTIMATE freshwater monster.
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I'm all about committing to keeping fish long term too, but 20 years is a ridiculous length of time to keep a fish. If I keep Max for 20 years- and I certainly plan to try- my son who was born in January will be a sophomore in college once this time period is over. Think about it like that. I have the best of intentions, but I honestly don't know if I'll be able to make it happen.
If we are talking the largest FW fish being the 'ulitmate' - it comes down to three (based on average recorded size, because the 'records' seem to be conflicting). Also, 'largest' doesn't specify by length, width or body weight.
'Giant FW Stingray' - Himantura chaophraya
'Mekong Catfish' - Pangasianodon gigas
'Arapiama' - Arapiama gigas
The largest sturgeon speices are marine fish that are also found in FW.
'Giant FW Stingray' - Himantura chaophraya
'Mekong Catfish' - Pangasianodon gigas
'Arapiama' - Arapiama gigas
The largest sturgeon speices are marine fish that are also found in FW.
sturgeon spend a lot of time in fw, and the ultimate FW fish is based of a hypothetical river where every species of fish live, and we are deciding which fish would be the top dominators.
its a debate, of course we are.. any contributions or opinions u would like to add?we are just going in circles.
Found possible competitor.. Speartooth shark.. and few species more in Glyphis gene.. Very rare and only seen in fw
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To be fair, all anadromous sturgeons prefer to be in freshwater more than saltwater. Not mentioned there are landlocked populations of the said species...
Ah the bull shark complex. I keep mentioned that there are some landlocked populations of bull sharks and also few freshwater shark species existed but I guess everyone dismissed my posts.
Clearly you forget that landlocked populations of bull sharks existed in some places and there's few river shark species that is related to bull sharks.Bull sharks are not freshwater fish, they go to freshwater to breed the right back to the ocean. But while they're in fresh I could see them being the best but this is about freshwater only
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Do you have an literature on landlocked, purely freshwater bull shark populations?
The only truly freshwater sharks I've heard of are Glyphis from Australia and India.
Few bull sharks has caught in some isolated lakes in southern United States has reported. And I believe a golf course lake in Australia has some bull sharks.
Before the dams were created, the bull sharks can be found in Minnesota and Wisconsin based on the shark teeth being discovered in Mississippi River belongs to adult bull sharks.
Landlocked populations do occurred in every known anadromous fishes where they cannot return to the ocean.
I'm not doubting the scientific plausibility of your claim. I view it as a sound theory, you should know by now that I'd be familiar with the theory behind your claim. I'm just looking for evidence to support the supposition that a completely landlocked population of bull shark exists. I've seen reports on Glyphis, but never bulls. The only freshwater reports I've seen of them are of the occasional odd transient, never a permanent population like we see with Glyphis.
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