Lung Fish!

[Jamie_C]

Its all in the title really! Im in Germany, only seen Lungfish in wildlife programs and then.......I see one in my local fish shop I mean those things get BIG and live out of water in the dry seasons......Weird
Anyone else seen some weird fish for sale?

 

[fufanu360]

theres a guy on this forum who has a lung fish

 

[mwm]

Weird I didnt know they lived out of water

 

[SirMinion]

Weird I didnt know they lived out of water

They don't, as such 'live out of water'.

What they do is form a coccoon of mud & mucous in which they hibernate when the water dries up during the dry season, then they emerge once the water returns.

 

[Dwarfs]

Sir beat me to it, ah well, he is correct

 

[phil]

Hi All

I would have loved to bring the scorpion fish I saw caught on one of my sea fishing trips home - also the common octopus I caught when fishing from Llandudno pier (Wales) but having no marine tanks put the octopus back - a brilliant experience though - as I`ve only ever seen them intanks in marine aquaria to actually handle one was fantastic.

Phil

 

[mwm]

Weird I didnt know they lived out of water

They don't, as such 'live out of water'.

What they do is form a coccoon of mud & mucous in which they hibernate when the water dries up during the dry season, then they emerge once the water returns.

wow creepy but cool!

 

[yossie_ika]

That's why they are called lung fish right???
they could get out of the water for quite som time

 

[Nix]

I've saw them forsale a couple times around here, pretty good size ones too.

 

[Jamie_C]

Yeah they are quite Creepy.Imagine walking into a room and theirs fish cocoon on the floor.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Wow! I'd get one! If I could, obviously. How would you go about keeping them? I mean, do you take out the water at any point in the year?

 

[Black_Ghost_Guy]

No, you don't. You just keep them as you would bichirs or spiny eels, or even loaches. If you have the tank space, I would pick it up, as I've heard that they're quite hard to get a hold of in Germany. Sir is, for the most part, correct, though different species have different methods of this process called estivation. One species burrows and coccoons itself, while most of the others just wait in moist mud, and one species can't estivate at all. What species was it, and what is the general part of Germany that this shop was in? I know of someone that I think would be very interested in this if you aren't.