I got lucky and found a dealer that had some and I can offer some tips to successful rearing bowfin fry they are extremely sensitive to water quality and ammonia when small I did ro water changes daily on the ones I had usually 50 percent changes some folks say you can house them together when fry I learned the hard way you can't at some point the hormones kick in and they will fight tooth and nail oddly opposite sex when adults have been kept together in big museums and aquariums they love brine shrimp mysis shrimp and blood worms and some won't touch pellets I first saw a bowfin in the wild in Carroll County ga at lake Carroll in the 90s he came up around some boat docks around some sand bottom area in the lake where I was fishing I threw a small crappie jig in front of it but it showed no interest this went on for about 15 min before he swam away at the time I knew what they was but I didn't know till after looking up what I saw in a Audubon book they do well if your willing put in the time for the fry mine when it was about 16 inch would eat shrimp tilapia nightcrawlers he got tame I really think he learned to recognize me because if I went into the room where the tank was he would come up to me and follow me the length of the tank would like to keep them again at some point
