Happy Christmas To Me

After a pre shippment tip off from Nmonks that these were going to be arriving in the UK within a couple of weeks i rung up and reserved the best two before they had even left Thailand and i was finally able to pick them up this weekend just gone.

These fish are collectively known as Paradise Threadfins and are some of the rarest fish in the aquarium trade, they are known to be very difficult to keep as they are very sensative of water quality, indeed a previous specimin i owned died after the nitrates in the aquarium rose suddenly due to a small ammount of uneaten food, a lesson learnt there.

This particular species was imported as Polynemus multifilis though a proper identification is practically impossible without examining a dead specimin, something i dont want to be doing with these two.
I'm happy to say that both are already feeding well on frozen bloodworm and to a lesser extent frozen mysis shrimp which i aim to be their main diet eventually.

Sorry for the grainy photos, im no great photographer i have a crappy camera and the damn things dont stop moving!




in this one you can get a size comparison to the full grown female guppy

Awesome fish CFC, the number of fish on your wishlist now must be quite low with all your recent additions, just a gulper catfish and you should be right

very nice

although i'm completely shocked that you actually own a guppy!

The guppy is a remenant of our sons old community tank and i promised him i would look after her as he had raised her from a fry, she doesnt do any harm and keeps my brackish quarentine tank cycled along with a tiny seven spined stickleback that came in with the live shrimp that my mrs insisted i saved, there are also river shrimp that have been rescued from tanks after they have survived a couple of days in the big tanks that she has become fond of Its only a 10g so it doesnt take up any room i could use for something else and it keeps the family happy.

I have never seen this fish before even I am staying so close to Thailand.
It looks awesome.

CFC said:

The guppy is a remenant of our sons old community tank and i promised him i would look after her as he had raised her from a fry, she doesnt do any harm and keeps my brackish quarentine tank cycled along with a tiny seven spined stickleback that came in with the live shrimp that my mrs insisted i saved, there are also river shrimp that have been rescued from tanks after they have survived a couple of days in the big tanks that she has become fond of Its only a 10g so it doesnt take up any room i could use for something else and it keeps the family happy.

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awww bless, your a big softy at heart aren't ya!

Ian did it for me though, we took down my community tank, i still had 2 neons that were 5 years old from my vey first tank, i know they'r eonly neons but i didn't wanna part with them, wouldn't have been fair to take them to the lfs they wouldn't have sold them. so Ian's now got them in his planted tank with his cardinals.

now i get to mock him cos he has neons

wow, nice fish, don't they die if they lose a barbel?

have you got any more info on them, like where are they from?

also, if they are sooooo sensitive, how do they survive in the wild?

After a pre shippment tip off from Nmonks that these were going to be arriving in the UK within a couple of weeks

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sounds like the fish mafia as well

They survive in the wild because the wild isnt a closed system that requires the manual removal of organic debris and nitrogen compounds. They live in tidal rivers that are flushed through by the sea every tidal cycle.

The death if they lose a whisker appears to be an internet myth, of the 5 they had in stock several of them had broken whiskers with visible signs of regrowth at the tips, mind you i made sure the two i picked had all their whiskers fully intact

There isnt much information written in English about them, this species is found in Thailand and Indonesia.

http/www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=14508

and in German

http/www.amtra.de/knh_fadenflosser1204_D.html

Beautiful fish CFC, good luck with them

Looking good dude. Glad you found some more. Maybe you should dig out the old pics of the last one you had, I recall those pics better showed the elegance of the barbels.

Have you considered splashing out on a fancy powerheads system, or even a Tunze Wavebox to fully recreate the tidal effects?

Heres the pictures of the one i had previously, was supposedly a different species being Polynemus paradiseus but it is generally accepted no one really knows which species they are buying as they all look so similar.






Splashing out, are you trying to get me shot!!? Buying these two cost enough, if i spend any more money any time soon she will kill me. Ive got a couple of internal filters in the tank they will be going into once its fully ready and they produce a fairly decent flow with them positioned top and bottom in the tank.

Yay, you got two of the fish so rare God hasn't seen them Bless, they're very mini How big was your other one?

These are a type of catfish right? Are they tank bred or wild?

DiscusLova said:

These are a type of catfish right? Are they tank bred or wild?

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No these are not catfishes, they are members of the Polynemidae family which are in the order of Perciforms which makes them closer related to Cichlids than catfishes which are the order of Siluriforms.

These are suprisingly meant to be captive bred, though this does not nessesarily mean tank bred, as they are a food fish in their native land they are probably obtained via the fish farming industry.

Feeshy the other one was about twice this size.

Congrats CFC!

Coinicidently, I was reading up on them when I stumbled across a blurb about them in PFK the other day. Rare indeed.

http/www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/...?article_id=111
http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadfin