ARGHHHHHHHHH

I can't believe this!!!
Link to the idiots

Why would anyone sell or even buy an arapaima??? Link to Info

Having seen shows about these fish, one wonders who has the tank space for a fish that grows to 8 foot!!!

Complete madness.

There should be a campaign against this ridiculous selling of monster fish to the unwary/uncaring <sigh>

Who's selling it?

johnl wrote:

Who's selling it?

Amazon fish Direct

its total madnness the tank thats going to need will be bigger than my living room.
theirs a few fish they should put a stop to that you can see in most aquatics if you ask me.

deano wrote:

its total madnness the tank thats going to need will be bigger than my living room.
theirs a few fish they should put a stop to that you can see in most aquatics if you ask me.

I totally agree Deano

I posted about this on Sheffield Forum too, the local fish rescues will be waiting with baited breath on having to rescue these along with RTC's, pleco's, shovelnose etc.

I think ALL fish shops should ensure that all fish they sell can be suitably housed for life, and maybe tank busters should be licensed.

We knew someone that had an 8 foot tank (they got rid of it) but even that won't house a full sized RTC, never mind an Arapaima!!

I sometimes wonder where folk keep their brains LOL

yeah theirs a bloke out worksop the rescues RTC,S. he as one thats three and a half foot loong biggest ive eve seen real beast.
he as shovelnoses and big plecs all thats out grown their tanks. he as a massive trop pond in his conservatory.

Personnally I'd love a tank/pond big enough to house some of the monster "Hypostomus" species that grow to a meter, but you all know I'm kinda daft
J

Kurosaki J wrote:

Personnally I'd love a tank/pond big enough to house some of the monster "Hypostomus" species that grow to a meter, but you all know I'm kinda daft
J

Aye J, but there's a difference between wanting and being realistic.

Now, if ya won the Lotto I'm sure it'd be a slam dunk, but the realities are somewhat more sobering.

yep i totally agree ange i saw a program robson green extreme fishing a while back and he was fishing for these....there freaking HUGE

No way should anybody be keeping these unless they have a lake for an aquarium...........

WOW

Now that sums it all up without having to utter one word LOL

nice one spree............

There was an article in PFK a few years back about a chap who has converted an entire room into a large freshwater aquarium to keep these "monsters" (well maybe not these but certainly very large catfish and freshwater rays). Some lovely pictures - and he snorkels with them to clean the glass. There really should be tighter controls about the selling of large fish. Even my excellent LFS shifts large amounts of Plecos to completely owners with unsuitabley small tanks.

Oh wow, if you can find any pics let us see!
And yeah, it's annoys me when you get one like 'Oh, I have a common pleco and it's going to outgrow my tank what do I do?', Durr, common sense please. I mean, places like pets@home may generally have abad rep for fish, but at least they got the whole 'no your tanks too small' thing down :/