Polypterus gang!

Anyone here keep Polypterus?? they are cool and awesome primitive fishes to keep! alright, here're mine Dragon Samurai's pics ,,










Gar

Nice looking fish.

Oooo I love Polypterus. I remember when I first saw a P. senegalus at my old work years ago. It was love at first sight.

I set up a great display tank with a huge shoal of stunning XL Congo Tetras and a pair of P. palmas polli. The customers loved it, beautiful, shimmering Congo tetras darting about the mid levels of the tank, and ''dinosaur fish'' skulking around the bottom.

I found they were great escape artists, along with the reed fish and Channa, but they'd generally still be alive when you found them halfway across the shop floor in the morning lol.

Scorpion19981000 wrote:

Nice looking fish.

+1

Callum B wrote:

I found they were great escape artists, along with the reed fish and Channa, but they'd generally still be alive when you found them halfway across the shop floor in the morning lol.

Awesome "WILL to LIVE"

Will to live, plus having a modified swim bladder that allows them to breathe atmospheric oxygen helps aswell lol.

lolz... I have learnt something here indeed

Callum B wrote:

Will to live, plus having a modified swim bladder that allows them to breathe atmospheric oxygen helps aswell lol.

yeah,, same goes to channa sp / snakehead fish, lungfish, eel., and some other primitive fish, like bowfin if i'm not wrong.

Cool.. when my kid comes in the future. I might switch to monster fish then

GS wrote:

Cool.. when my kid comes in the future. I might switch to monster fish then

yeah you should~ it's not just bout monster fishes, you also might consider to have nice aqua deco for the monster.

liocheles wrote:

GS wrote:

Cool.. when my kid comes in the future. I might switch to monster fish then

yeah you should~ it's not just bout monster fishes, you also might consider to have nice aqua deco for the monster.

+1

I would definitely like to have a relaxing view in my living room when i come back from a tiring day of work

Freakin love Polypterus! How are they acting towards eachother in there? IME they tend to be very aggressive towards... well, pretty much everyone and everything,

Scorpeace wrote:

Freakin love Polypterus! How are they acting towards eachother in there? IME they tend to be very aggressive towards... well, pretty much everyone and everything,

my polys live together since they at 4inches small. they doing good since now. all reached at 1 ft. and i just add Polypterus palmas poli 5 inches into the family. doing very good together.

Oh:) you gonna try breed them?

Scorpeace wrote:

Oh:) you gonna try breed them?

never cross in my mind. from wat i know, they're hard to breed. need to create actual habitat, temp,pH and so on. plus i only have single specimen for every species, unless cross breed. if i had a chance, would love to breed them. they're now at 1ft length,, a year more, i need to upgrade to bigger tank.

the gar died on early January from unknown cause, i guess cause by parasite or bacteria.

Some of them are actually pretty easy:)

Scorpeace wrote:

Some of them are actually pretty easy:)

oh really?? then i should find them pair~ still not late before they turn to monster,

thanks!

btw, what sp of polys are in ur list? mind sharing? hehe.

I dont have any now But I had a couple of senegalus and palmas polli

Im on the lookout for some new ones for my 720l (190 gallon) aquarium now

post the pics out here!

I will