Arapiama Gigas, Worlds largest freshwater fish

Arapaima gigas. World's largest freshwater fish. heh

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The Gigas is a freshwater fish of the Amazon basin. It is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. Arapaima reach sizes of up to 15 feet in length.

The swim bladder is open to the pharynx and the arapaima uses the bladder which is rich in blood vessels as a lung.

actually this particular gigas is small compared to the wild gigas (maybe cuz its living in a tank :O)

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[harley7007]

is it a lungfis im pretty sure das a lungfish

[liquidribs]

lololololol................

[Eastside28Kee]

who made this song?

[liquidribs]

the band is called InMe. they have some great songs man

[MsMegF]

I think the Kaluga (Huso dauricus) is larger than the Arapiama....The River Baluga get up to18 ft. and 2,200 lbs. They do spend part of their lives in saltwater like Baluga's do, but they are listed as a freshwater fish.

[HungQDang]

@justinlegend8800 anyway, the record is 24ft and 3250 lbs for Beluga sturgeon!

[HungQDang]

@Sean0fenton the thing is sturgeon spend most  of their life in salt water! if you say fish that spend part of their life in fresh water should be classed fresh water fish, then fish that send parts of their life live in salt and brackish are salt and brackish water! Sturgeon can live in all of those environments!

Anyway, I believe that the classification is fresh water fish are fish that live their hole life in fresh water and cannot or barely survive in brackish and salt water!

[Sean0fenton]

@HungQDang I know what you mean, but Sturgeon and Salmon are still called freshwater fish because of the ability to survive in freshwater environments, almost all other saltwater fish can't survive in freshwater.

Also Sturgeon tend to stay in coastal areas and rarely venture into more deeper open water, so even when in the sea they are still fairly close to freshwater (rivers)

[HungQDang]

@Sean0fenton sturgeon live about 5-7 years in fresh water until the mature, and then only come back to fresh water about 1 month each years to lay eggs! and they live like more than 100 years in the sea like bull-shark! so they mostly are salt water fish!

sturgeon can survive in fresh water like salmon, bull-shark, trouts ... for their hole life but they cannot reach their max size in fresh water!

[Sean0fenton]

@HungQDang I think all fish that spend part of there lives in freshwater are classed as freshwater fish. Just think of Salmon, like sturgeon Salmon spend there time in freshwater as young, and live out at sea as adults, only to return to freshwater to breed. Only salmon usually die, once they breed (although a few species return to the sea)

Also there are some populations of White Sturgeon that are cut off from the sea and are solely freshwater living.

[HungQDang]

@justinlegend8800 Beluga Sturgeon is not considering a fresh water fish since they go out the sea at adult and only come back to the river to lay eggs!

[justinlegend8800]

the Huso huso aka Beluga Sturgeon is larger. Growing up to 15ft and 4,400lbs

[Benj1105]

Chinese paddlefish although t is uncertain if it is extinct or not is larger

[shinysky93]

o.O