Dinosaur Eels

My new polypterus babies, such cute anachronisms! This kind of fish is basically unchanged since Cretaceous times, back in the days of dinosaurs.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• dinosaur
• eel
• eels
• polypterus
• fish
• aquarium
• aquaria
• aquariums
• Cretaceous
• monster

[chowchowgrl]

Only 20 gallons, but no other fish in there and lots of rocks, nooks, live rooted and floating plants, places to explore. They really need to spend their lives in a larger tank, though.

[chowchowgrl]

Fightingwarrior, I Googled how to tell the males from the females; look at IMAGES for pictures. There are some articles to describe how to breed them, but as I remember, you have to have special conditions to successfully raise babies. Carl, I think the size of your fish and the size of your tank would make a difference. Google to find some websites on tank COMPATIBILITY. These fish are not only called dinosaur eels, but also bichirs and polypterus, so you'll find info under all three names.

[chowchowgrl]

Sorry for not answering all of your comments. I only have one left since one guy jumped out of the tank last year. You can't put them with many other fish because they'll eat them; if a tankmate is sick, they'll eat it. They can open their mouths pretty wide and gulp down amazingly big hunks of food, a little like a snake. They're not fast but they sense food immediately and never stop looking for it. Another problem with tankmates is fish that might pick at their fins.

[chowchowgrl]

My polypterus (only have one now) eats stuff from the pet store freezer: beef heart, bloodworms, any kind of carnivore food. I also give him chopped bits of lean meat such as chicken, fish, shrimp, and non-fat pork and beef, but not hamburger because there's too much fat in it. Mine does just what yours does, hangs out on top in the plants on the surface. He also likes the caves at the bottom.

[trueformvalor]

Oh! I love these guys. They are adorable.....I have one and I greatly enjoy watching him zoom around. They are so prehistoric!!!!!! :)

[chowchowgrl]

They watch me as much as I watch them, and they seem to know me over other people. They're growing and growing, though. I'm going to get them a bigger tank before the year's end.

[BBstontop]

i have the tialand dinsaur eel

[101swat101]

what is it that ur feeding them? thank you :)



[123robskate]

what size tank?

[digitalmicetails]

@chowchowgrl thanks thefightingwarrior was my old account

[chesney1396]

my name is carl and i would like to know can they go in a tank with barbs angle fish siamese fighting fish

[chrissxtr13]

um they have a name they are called birchirs

[TheFightingwarrior]

is there any way to tell if it is a male or a female and how u can make them mate?