What kind of care would one be looking at for a piraiba (B. filamentosum)?
Tankmates?
Tank size?
Feeding?
Tankmates?
Tank size?
Feeding?
Plenty of other animals make migrations in the wild. Tangs swim miles per day. Yet they're far more common than pretty much any other SW aquarium fish. They make migrations to breed and/or because of better temperatures. In an aquarium, you can keep the temperature stable and you don't need to worry about breeding them. They don't just swim thousands of miles to swim thousands of miles.I may take some flack for this and that's okay. Also sorry if I'm derailing this thread...I'm really just curious. Brachyplatystoma catfishes are known to make migrations of literally thousands of miles (from the mouth of the Amazon across the entire length of Brazil, for example). What is the justification for keeping a fish like this in a tank?
Not necessarily opposed to it, but I'd like to hear what people have to say.
True, however in any given day I'm pretty sure they swim further than a piraiba. And we're not keeping piraibas in 125 gallon tanks. We're keeping them in 12,500 gallon tanks.That's true, but tangs don't grow to be 10 ft long...
Well, there's evidence that they can do fine in captivity, isn't that enough? I mean, obviously there's much more space for them to swim in the amazon, sure. But that doesn't mean they need it. Pretty much every animal out there has a TON of space to roam around. That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep them in captivity at all though.I don't know that much is known about how much a piraiba swims in a day assuming it's not migrating.