Pinirampus pirinampu Grow out.

[Rpul]

Brilliant to see you’ve acquired 3 yourself Vicktor. I’ll be out in Florida myself September this coming year. I’ll have to try and swing by on my visit if I find time and you’re available, would be fantastic to see the whole set up in the flesh.

The fish is around the 7” mark roughly, maybe alittle bigger. The growth has been strange. It seems the get deeper first, then longer and repeats that cycle.
Very calm fish overall, dose sometimes argue with the bristle nosed plec. Other than that, no other issues. Greedy, if over fed dose regurgitate food to eat more food. Very bizzar.

The whiskers are really starting to flatten out now.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

I'd consider us very lucky if you visited indeed!

Good to see your specimen survived the power outage. Our 3 are in no hurry to grow, looks like a moderate grower, maybe 0.5-1 inch per month. Ours have a clear pecking order.

 

[Rpul]

It seems I’ve had my first episode of potential trouble with the P.P.

I’ve been away for two days, returned home to find a very clean bite out of my South American lung fish. Considering there is nothing inside that aquarium that could:
1.) causes a bite mark of that size.
2.) causes any damage to others.
3.) the bite shape fits a catfish with a guillotine bite.
4.) eyeing up the area that has been bitten matches the size of the P.P mouth.


It leaves me with no choice to point fingers at the P.P.

Although we’ll on the way to healing up and at amazing speed. I firstly questioned Richard Hardwick , who has readily responded quickly. It would appear he seems to think the P.P has similar habits to the vulture catfish and mouth artillery to match.
I will try to get a confirmation of a friend who has caught a handful of larger specimens whilst out fishing in the Amazon river.

I have noticed the fish has become very territorial over the rock it spends most of its time next to. I have observed it chasing fish off over time. With the lung fish being much slower to react. I suspect this has caused what has happened.

I’ll attach pictures below.