Fish Id Please

[christhefish]

Could somebody please identify this fish please. Thanks.

 

[kribensis12]

Arrowana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why? Did you get it?

 

[foxycatfish]

Hi looks like a silver arrowana.

The water quality for Arrowana is very important. Temperature is about 78 oF to 88 oF. It is better to have a shield to protect the heater, if it is going to place inside the tank. The Arrowana will accidentally swing their tail and hit the heater. If not, the heater would not last too long from those hit. The pH is about 6.8 to 7.2. I recommend not putting any object inside the tank. Moreover, one big thing, your fish tank MUST have a complete cover. The fish likes to jump. ! The Fish can get up to 30" long easy, so I strongly recommend you to get a tank at least 5 feet long. An efficient filtration is a must.

 

[PRW1988]

Not a silver, look at the fins, more than likely either a black or Jardini.

 

[Mr._Fishy]

Looks like a Jardini. Don't think its a black, look at its fins and back. Definitely not a silver.

Ryan


P.S. PRW1998, I love your sig.

 

[mark7616]

Lol people should only comment if they know what something is rather than just randomly guess. Silver and black arowanas look the same and thats not them. A jardini has a similar body shape to an asian but is colour is completely different. The fish in question is an Asian Arowana its hard to tell as it is still quiet small but I would take a guess at either a Grade 2 Red (banjar) or a red it doent look like a Red tailed gold (RTG) to me but it would depend on the size. I doubt that you have bought this fish due to the fact if you got it from a LFS a Banjar would cost in the region of £300-£400 a RTG from £450-£600 and a proper red from £1500-£2600. So knowone would really pay that kinda money for a fish with out knowing what it was.

Hi looks like a silver arrowana.

The water quality for Arrowana is very important. Temperature is about 78 oF to 88 oF. It is better to have a shield to protect the heater, if it is going to place inside the tank. The Arrowana will accidentally swing their tail and hit the heater. If not, the heater would not last too long from those hit. The pH is about 6.8 to 7.2. I recommend not putting any object inside the tank. Moreover, one big thing, your fish tank MUST have a complete cover. The fish likes to jump. ! The Fish can get up to 30" long easy, so I strongly recommend you to get a tank at least 5 feet long. An efficient filtration is a must.

Most of that info is wrong a silver as you Id`d it to be gets to about 40" and needa a tank a hell of alot bigger than 5ft and its not just length but width thats important. Also there is nothing wrong with have decor in a tank with arowana at all. Also I have never heard of and arowana hitting a heater with its tail and breaking it where did you get that from

 

[nurglespuss]

Worst thing I've ever seen an Arrowana do is take its eye out on jutting bogwood when panicked, so could concievably 'swim into' a heater and break it due to panic, but heaters are fairly robust nowadays, so its unlikely.

And sorry to say, but (right or wrong) you just insinuated that the original poster is fibbing, which, while also concievable is a bit mean.... Sometimes fish go cheap, I picked up my dwarf puffer for £2.50 at a local-ish store, whereas they were selling for £10 each at pets at home, sometimes stores don't know what theyve got....

 

[mark7616]

The origional poster never said he bought it he asked for an id it was OP that asked if he owned it. And you will NEVER find an ASIAN arowana go cheaply in LFS.

 

[nurglespuss]

Sorry! Tha'll teach me to read, I'll leave my post up un-edited for posterity (and tribute to my not reading things).

"And you will NEVER find an ASIAN arowana go cheaply in LFS"

Well acrually you do, like I said some pet-stores don't know what they have.

 

[mark7616]

Fish shops do know what they have when they are ordering in Asian Arowanas they dont sell them cheap.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Fish shops do know what they have when they are ordering in Asian Arowanas they dont sell them cheap.

There's always the posibility though that a customer could have brought the fish into the petshop and the shop just accepted it not knowing what the fish was, i see it happen a lot in small family run petshops where they don't tend to be that familiar with the more expensive or exotic species of fish, however i have never seen such a thing happen with an arrowana.

 

[mark7616]

Nope because these small family run petshops tanks are usually smaller than the length of the arowana that the customer is bringing in

 

[Alistriwen]

An Arowana is the type of fish that anyone who has one knows what it is, or finds out very quickly. Any lfs would have to learn something about them just to feed the buggers so chances are he either saw that pic online and was curious, or saw a similar fish in a store and found that picture for an id.