Comments on: Name That Fish!

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:51:02 +0000

That’s unfair with your time difference, i missed the 1st response, i was going to say FAN TAILED GOLDFISH!…Any prizes for that?!..(I was joking just in case!)

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:58:39 +0000

Beat me to it. Unmistakeably pirarucu. They have a couple of monstrous examples as inmates in the London Aquarium.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:22:28 +0000

yup. Pirarucu. Loads of those things here in Japan. All the aquariums have ‘em. You can even get them in pet shops or see them in fish tanks in bars. Occasionally, you might see one in a small lake or pond as people tend to release unwanted pets into the local bodies of water. A massive fish.

By: MuskyBill

MuskyBill — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:52:40 +0000

There’s some great Youtube clips of that fish. Quite the predator…

By: Clive Mathias

Clive Mathias — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:29:35 +0000

Pirarucu is correct, good sir! According to Wikipedia: The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche (Arapaima gigas) is a South American tropical freshwater fish. It is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. Arapaima can reach lengths of more than 2 m (6.6 ft), in some exceptional cases even more than 2.5 m (8.2 ft) and over 100 kg (220 lbs). The often cited maximum length of 4.5 m (14.8 ft) comes from a single second-hand-report from the first half of the ninteenth century, and is not an actual fact.

By: Mauricio

Mauricio — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:25:45 +0000

Hi. That is a “PIRARUCU”, arapaima gigas, a Brasilian north land fish (Amazon river and tributaries). It’s probably the actually biggest fresh water scaled fish. His flesh is very good eating, fresh or salty. Nowadays, this fish is in extinction risk.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:45:46 +0000

That’s an arawana… I think…

By: Jonathon Marshall

Jonathon Marshall — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:20:03 +0000

That’s not a fish… It’s CARNIVAL!!

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