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Posted	My new WAL and big Barb
07-12-2007 19:40 by Bogwoodbruce	Heres my new west african lungfish and barb from wharf
07-12-2007 19:40 by Bogwoodbruce
07-12-2007 19:51 by keith t	Nice zebra danio
07-12-2007 20:12 by big cats	i spoke to a well known aquarist some ten years ago who had some experience of west african lungfish, he had stainless steel thermostat returned to his shop (it was indestructable) with major damage turned out the manufacturer had only ever had two returned one was got at by a full grown lobster the other lost an arguement with a JUVENILE west african lungfish,i had a two footer whos party trick was biting a frozen beef sausage in half ? you should have ten mm plate glass lids, remove all other aquatic life(or life may not be how to describe it) , heat the tank using an external heater(if he dont break it he will lie on it)you must also ensure as he gets bigger that you leave enough space between the cover glasses and water level for him to get air, you will kill him if you over fill it. i first saw a lungfish in blackpool tower aqurium (is it still there?)he was the biggest fish i have ever seen, other than a five foot red tail in stirling university dept. of aquaculture, you must be mad bruce,p.s. you remind me of me ten years ago enjoy
07-12-2007 20:19 by Bogwoodbruce	Thanks big cat theres a 5" gap, no other fish and a metal heater.
07-12-2007 20:48 by Nick G	Good luck boggy, brave brave man
07-12-2007 21:27 by Jake Casson	Had one in my mates shop a few months ago. 2 foot in lenght. Completly nutter of a fish, would attack anything inc killing a 15" plec just by crushing its skull. I sold to bloke who came down from liverpool. We used to do funny things to it, it was a right laugh, like spitting in its mouth. Sparsholt college have a 3 foot monster called biffa, another nutter that has been know to eat parts of a filter. But ive also seen them kept with other fish with no probs, just depends on that lungfish.
08-12-2007 09:49 by Bogwoodbruce	Ive had experience with a SAL too.
08-12-2007 10:50 by keith t	Spitting in its mouth, using oscars for bait whatever next jake. really dont like your approach to fish keeping at all.
08-12-2007 11:00 by big cats	keith i am with you i gave him the benefit of the doubt after my last comments but i have to assume the worst of him now the infantile treatment of fish is pathetic, like someone who gets kicks out of hurting cats ,if i knew which shop it was i would report you, last time you claimed to be a wind- up man in your defence, your comments offend me as does your treatment of fish
08-12-2007 12:25 by Bogwoodbruce	Your quite worrying jake.
08-12-2007 13:51 by Ed	Very strange.
08-12-2007 13:51 by Ed	What type of barb is that bruce.
08-12-2007 14:19 by Jake Casson	If you walked over to its tank it would rise to surface as thought its dinner time. Then if anything would move it would snap, ie even if you blew on the surface at it, he would snap. I loved that fish. Could even lift him right out the water then place back in tank and within seconds he'll be ready to attack anything. So what is your problem? I havent done anything wrong. Im hardly nasty to animals, taking the odd oscar from a shop and making use of it dead (I would kill them first) is hardly bad. I dont agree with alot of things being veggie so just cant understand what you are saying. I shouldnt even be trying to defend myself really. Chill out
08-12-2007 16:54 by Bogwoodbruce	The barb could be a rare species
08-12-2007 18:43 by -Rob C-	I'm guessing that you don't know what species it is then so you won't know it's final size or what it's requirements are? Nice Lungfish, hope you've thought it through though, they are big aggresive fish and live a long time.
08-12-2007 20:05 by keith t	Jake - im hardly nasty to animals. So killing oscars first before using them for bait is being nice is it. If i came up and spat in your mouth would you shake my hand and think i was being nice. What Aquatic shop do you work for Jake. Also is that what they teach you a Sparsholt college nowadays.
08-12-2007 22:32 by Bogwoodbruce	I know exactly what the barb is but not saying.
08-12-2007 23:51 by curviceps	Is it a Probarbus?
09-12-2007 14:52 by Jake Casson	I say its a Hampala macrolepidota
09-12-2007 20:59 by -Rob C-	Why aren't you saying? Is there something to hide?
09-12-2007 22:53 by curviceps	I thought the Hampala had a belt down the middle? This fish hasn't got that?
10-12-2007 17:05 by curviceps	So what is it? and why wouldn't you say?
10-12-2007 17:19 by Jake Casson	Just some variant of the above
10-12-2007 20:14 by Bogwoodbruce	just teasing , im not sure as its hard to tell with the fish being deformed
10-12-2007 21:46 by Jake Casson	Deformed, urrr. Could feed it to your snook
12-12-2007 16:55 by curviceps	Having done a wee bit of snooping about the net, I came across an article on PFK [url]http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1486[/url]
13-12-2007 10:17 by Alan	to get curviceps link to work copy and paste it into your browser then delete the following bit at the end [/url] bogwoodbruce are you able to post another picture as I am unable to see the picture you have posted. It should work if you post it in the same format as the pickies of the african lung fish.
13-12-2007 11:53 by curviceps	I don't believe this is the same species as Bogwoodbruce barb, but very similar labeamajor.
13-12-2007 15:30 by Alan	It would be easy to tell if I could see the flipping picture!!!!!
14-12-2007 13:24 by Alan	If it is a Labeamajor that is one potentially huge fish according to fishbase it will hit 150 cm thats just under 5 foot for those that can't do metric. Common bogwoodbruce post another picture I want to see if I can id the thing.
16-12-2007 21:02 by -Rob C-	Do you really think he'd upload another picture? The whole reason he's not showing the picture anymore is because he's realised people are capable of ID'ing a fish and finding out it's way too big for a tank. If that's the case, I'm sure he'll have got rid of it in the next few months.

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