Iridescent shark?

Lord Barium

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I came back from the fish store and saw this really distinctive looking fish. It looked a bit like the top of a shovelnose catfish smushed onto the body of a fatter creature. I had no idea what it was, so I came home and was looking around wikipedia, and saw the article.

Does anyone have this fish? It looks kick :naughty::naughty::naughty:.
 

Tongue33

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I had two ;)
 

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if it is an Iridescent Shark then your 75 your getting will hold them for a few weeks/months. after that unfortunately they will need a pond to call home. but i definitialy agree that they are sick...but only worth getting if you can house them.
 

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awesome fish. huge fish
 

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I think they are actually a catfish?????????????????????//
 

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brcacti;1750614; said:
I think they are actually a catfish?????????????????????//
Yep. Pangasias catfish/ID shark. Schooling fish. Get 36'' and really heavy. Are skittish when smaller and might hurt themselves bumping into glass. Need LOTS of room, like 600 gallon for three or four, IMO.
 

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Lord Barium;1748673; said:
I came back from the fish store and saw this really distinctive looking fish. It looked a bit like the top of a shovelnose catfish smushed onto the body of a fatter creature. I had no idea what it was, so I came home and was looking around wikipedia, and saw the article.

Does anyone have this fish? It looks kick :naughty::naughty::naughty:.
Do you have a photo of this fish? An irredesent shark, if it is one, is not a piscavore, they eat mostly insect larvae and plant material. The last one I had was dwarfed by it's previous owner and never grew more than 10" in five years. It was a great fish, one of my all time favorites. I had it in a 125 gallon tank with lots of cardinal tetras and other large and small gentle fishes. If your fish is fat and and has a round belly but has a head like a irredesent shark then you have a cutivar of the parroon shark called a balloon shark. they are very preditory and will eat almost anything they can over power. In the wild parron sharks get to be almost two meters long and are caught using large dead animals as bait. The regular paroon shark looks a lot like it's irredesent shark cousin.
 

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IR sharks are great fish.

Big friendly giants. Not suited for small tanks!

I have a monster albino IR shark that is definitely a favorite among visitors that view my tank.
 

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Moontanman;1757093; said:
Do you have a photo of this fish? An irredesent shark, if it is one, is not a piscavore, they eat mostly insect larvae and plant material. The last one I had was dwarfed by it's previous owner and never grew more than 10" in five years. It was a great fish, one of my all time favorites. I had it in a 125 gallon tank with lots of cardinal tetras and other large and small gentle fishes. If your fish is fat and and has a round belly but has a head like a irredesent shark then you have a cutivar of the parroon shark called a balloon shark. they are very preditory and will eat almost anything they can over power. In the wild parron sharks get to be almost two meters long and are caught using large dead animals as bait. The regular paroon shark looks a lot like it's irredesent shark cousin.
But a lot rarer. Paroons get many more times as big and they're dorsal fin is much longer than that of the ID shark.
 

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