Please Help me to ID this Fish

[svetlana]

I was googling a little and it sounds like trouts, salmons and pikes are having adipose fins. I found this link, but it is dif to make anything of it but take a look:

http://www.whom.co.uk/squelch/freshwater_fish.htm

 

[dslr.cow]

Probably some cyprinid. I'll look.

 

[Dylan]

pretty sure thats an AFRICAN PIKE. pikes are very very aggressive. ive got a gar, a characin gar which resembles that fish a lot, except a gar has a much pointier mouth. but i think its an african pike

 

[wayne]

What's the scientific name for an African Pike? The gar characin is another Hydrocyanus (or some are)

I would not be too surprised if it was a juvenile colour form of one of the Hydrocyanus species( pictures of all of them on fishbase) but I am concerned that there is no red in the fins, and it's dotted in this fish. I really doubt that it's a hybrid or new mutation - it's simply that these fish aren't that common so not many sites or books will contain it. I didn't have time to look in my Baensch atlases last night. If I haven't id'ed it in a a few days I'll mail a picture to somone I know who'll id it in about 2 seconds to species level

 

[NiceFeelings]

pretty sure thats an AFRICAN PIKE. pikes are very very aggressive. ive got a gar, a characin gar which resembles that fish a lot, except a gar has a much pointier mouth. but i think its an african pike

Thank you Dylan, I think it's an African Pike by looking at this picture also. Thanks alot.

http://www.dreamlake-fishing.com/fish21.html

African Pike info

btw, is this a rare fish to get a hand on, for example like the african tiger fish.

I found a website which sells this fish. Although it's in Japanese, it's sells for ￥１３，４４０, convert it to usd is $122.68. I bought this fish for $60.

Here's the website, it's 3rd role down from left, just see the picture.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/aquashop-true/characin/hp-5characin.htm

 

[Firebug]

wow! I think Dylan hit the nail on the head! Good job, Dylan!



P.S: At least I got the "African" part right!

 

[wayne]

Well this fish seems a laugh a minute - hopped out of the tank and bit the author of the second article.

Anywhere there's a lot of new stuff coming out of Africa so expect to see the price some down. They were price at about a 45$ equiv for a 6 inch fish in Britain, and the same here

 

[jediinthedark]

That fish does sound pretty neat, and it's exciting to be at the forefront of care with something uncommon. Don't forget to let your lfs know what they're selling.

 

[GoldLenny]

I HOPE you read that it gets up to 50" (over 4 feet) long. Well, the Dreamlake site puts it at up to 50", the other site puts it at up to 24" but either way, you are going to need LOTS of tank since it's a BIG-TIME swimmer. And don't put your fingers in the tank... you could be the next meal!