I love how the rtc take the food ever so gingerly from your hand. The airapaima put on a show. Also great underwater shots, they look like they are so used to the camera now. They hardly seem to care.
Fish Story Aquarium and Rescue, Naples, FL; two 4500 gal 13'x13'x4.5'
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Wow, heavy duty cover! I never really thought about this, but i guess you do need an incredibly strong cover for fish that size!
I keep seeing this bass- like thing in there, and I don't know what it is! At 13:16 on the bottom middle, there is a green/gold fish that has the texture of a largemouth bass, but a head that kind of swoops down, like an arapaima.
The cover is a greenhouse plastic film clamped onto the tank lip with strong 2" workshop spring clamps. Most usually no one tries jumping out, accidentally or purposefully, except arowana and arapaima. The latter go through the cover easily - the film holds, doesn't tear but the clamps can't hold on to the tank lip. The pimas are about 60 lbs right now. Had to pick them up from floor and plop them back into the tank two times now, each pima jumped out once, one 6 months ago and the other last week. Could just barely managed. Not only the formidable weight but it's like wrestling a butter-covered, extremely slippery alligator. In their next tank, this type of cover won't do. If they survive that is to see a next tank.
This is barramundi aka Lates calcarifer.
Jeez those ATF Vik are monsters, I woulda though the wolf would beat the ATF instead
