what up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing it to us
Sunday from the greenhouse didn't do this video inside my tanks are getting a
little cleaned up I won do it outside because I had that enthusiasm behind it
and my kids just went to sleep so I can't be loud inside this is a fish I've
been wanting to talk about dying to talk about it's official I won't say I think
about putting this fish in the tank every day but probably once a month for
the past 15 years or so and that fish it rhymes if I'm still
illegal substance it's the arowana these fish are the bomb I had to print out a
picture you've all seen it you all know it you all love it you all want one
don't act like you don't want one of these fish cuz I do I don't want to talk
okay Erewhon --is our fact all right I'm
going to start with the general like where they are I got a couple of notes
here three different species from South America four from Asia one from Africa
two from Australia okay long slender bodies they reside at the top of the
water in the natural habitats they have slow-moving water they can jump up to
six feet in the air to catch insects birds small animals that sort of thing
really just a sweet fish yeah and you know in the wild let's see here their
mouth brooders so they can't they're babies that keep their babies in their
mouths my boy Parker says that and I don't know if they didn't true this at
all but in like Arowana farming places they
like have the the female or the male that's holding all the eggs and it was
catch it and cut its head off and pour out all the babies whatever but their
mouth brooders they have one eye up and down I saw this I've seen this in
captivity I was doing some reading on actually they that's just something that
they've adapted in captivity in the wild they're actually up but they developed
that in the aquariums because they're so used to looking down for food as far as
food you want to feed them crickets my boy Jali's kept them fed them with
crickets mice but you don't recommend feeding my
worms but the best thing to do is get them on a floating palette and keep them
floating I do not recommend this fish for any aquarium less than three hundred
sixty gallons 240 gallons I could put one in my two twenty but I just don't
think there'd be anything to really go with it I will say um as far as I've
been told they don't mess up the plants as poorly I'd like your feedback on
Arowana so with that because they are such a surface dweller however they do
require very good water conditions so I having that personally kept in this is
all from people I know that have kept them but very good water conditions
which makes sense because they're at the top of the water out in the wild a
couple of different varieties of them there's I've seen red ones I've seen
silver ones black ones gold ones the one that I think is really amazing is the
Platinum one I mean look the fish are amazing they're so sweet they're so
cool-looking I wish I wouldn't thrown the picture so far away I'd get it up
again they're just awesome I was reading up on one of like what's the most
expensive Arowana somebody was offered 80 grand eighty thousand dollars for a
platinum one in 2007 show some shelf didn't take it I'm not selling it for
any G's but was offered 80 grand it did not take it that is how fast these fish
are my experience is with them my boy jolly had won like I was saying he got
his to about 18 to 22 inches he said when he bought his it had the little
yolk sack on it and he had to feed the crickets the whole time to get it to
grow out of that to me that like live action they're very aggressive actually
what I did keep a few of them I didn't have him for long probably had up like a
year they had I had like two of them and the one instantly killed the other one
it was like they're very rough to each other like I guess you don't see them
too often in captivity together I believe that is because they are like
just into could find of quarters I bet if they were in bigger area they'd get
along but I don't know anything about keeping them in a huge pot or anything
like that um the guy Tony adjust fish had him in a 125 he had one that was
this folks it was amazing I mean beautiful
like everyone that came in there like paid homage to this fish it was awesome
sadly got killed when the power got killed on that guys place and the fish
froze but a very very beautiful fish talking this big it was in a 125 which
leads me to like what you have to keep these tanks in these fish in tanks he
very very very very strong hoods no less than three and again look you can get
away with one in the 6-foot tank and they're sweet I'm not going to deny that
but don't any of you rookies go out and think you're going to go buy an arowana
you know they do take a little bit more of an S and they get so big so she's not
worth doing my boy Jackson had one that died on his birthday it was sweet though
he kept in an overstock cichlid tank and just in general they're awesome fish um
that's really it I want to hear your stories about arowana
I think they're fat I've debated the only way I personally keep them by the
way is in an 8 foot long tank and or something I might put in this greenhouse
that was like three foot wide so it could do like a whole big turn and then
you need like something above it I was always thinking about doing some sort of
like plant thing up out of the water where it can have like like bugs and
stuff then plants that like grow up so if it like jumped down it it have like
he's net to the side but anyway awesome fish love to hear your stories love for
you to send me a link and let me know what's going on also I haven't forgot
about doing the contest I'm still scheming that up I got to figure out a
way to do it I like some of the ideas that I'm getting on that so that is
still coming and yeah I've had a lot of fun species Sunday in your face baby
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