Hello guys and girls.

I'm Mamat from Langkawi, originally from Sungai Petani, Kedah. So happy to be here. I am amazed by your fish list.

Just dropped by to share with the members of this forum my fish list.

1. Elephantnose
2. Double trunk Elephantnose
3. BGK
4. African Lungfish
5. A tank full of loaches + Sewellia lineolata in a stream set up
6. Alligator Gar (3', 2' & 9")

I have 8 tanks (1-4' + 1 5x5' fiber tank) and I'm living in a studio apartment. Alone!

I am thinking about buying some Mormyrus sp (freshwater dolphinfish, 6-7 inches, RM150) BUT sadly the lfs mixed them with some giant chained loach and the loaches have whitespots.

I am also looking (hard) for Aba Aba knifefish. Got ah?

Good to be here.

Warm regards from Langkawi.

Hi beer8bottles.

I saw them too in CTY (Penang, same size, same price tag). Too bad I flew in from Langkawi. Cannot carry pets on board air asia lo... Then last month I went back... Habis liao... Now Langkawi got 2 pcs (6-7" RM150 each).

As I said earlier, I went there yesterday to buy, but the kedai added half a dozen of Botia sp with whitespot to the same aquarium, don't want to introduce the sick fish to my tank.

What is the price range for Aba Aba? I saw them many years ago selling for RM80 (in the 90s) at about 1'. Hope Akidos still have some available for me.

Are they hard to care for?

BTW, some pix...








Sewellia lineolata


Gator Gars (3' & 2')

waaaaaaa..... so nice! how much la?

too big la (both in size and price ) anything smaller in size/price?

Thanks Arawin.

read from the old postings. electric eels for rm450 in Malaysia? sounds tempting...

my electric bill for this month is rm85.40 and I'm living alone in a studio apartment. cekik darah betoi lembaga lektrik langkawi nih... akakakaka...

Serious kah electric eel rm450? how big/small are they?

1 kaki RM450? Hmmm... Tempting... Tempting...

Difficult to handle tu cemana? I tot electric eel strictly no handling...

Next week i pi penang... if still got I'll try tanya the kedai can pos laju or not to u Akidos.

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Added on April 9, 2011, 12:50 ambtw- my house no aircond la...


This post has been edited by Mamat_Lisham: Apr 9 2011, 12:50 AM

bleh buat kempen.... 1rumah, 1 electric eel...

Great! U north belah mana? I kat Langkawi...

ooooo.... dekat je....

My baby...


African Lungfish

I used to have these-


Polyodon spatula


Polyodon spatula


Senegal/Cuviers Bichir & Spotted Gar


Reedfish


Some kind of converted saltwater goby. The local call this Kerapu Singa/Depu. Kept this for about a year in saltwater.

I have more pix of the fish I used to keep but I'll have to korek2 around for them...

yeap.... payah jaga... no electricity die lor... sebab air dia kena running...
i bela about 8 months before all 3 died...

died d... electric putus sekali... mati 1.... time tu selalu putus electricity... i bought them at rm75 each... 3 years ago la... they swim non-stop...

[quote=beer8bottles,Apr 13 2011, 10:23 PM]
Yeah, they are like sharks. I checked online that they need a round aquarium to stop them from bumping into the glass and hurting their snouts. Also they are filter feeders (one of the reasons I didn't want to buy them). What did you feed them?


fed them frozen blood worm + micro pellet... easy to feed. i kept them from bumping the sides of the aquarium by putting partition turning the aquarium into a square + placing the pump so the water pusing around the aquarium... problem solved... but when xde elektrik kerap2... semua mati...

i mengamuk kaw-kaw kat TNB Langkawi... the head engineer asked me what ikan i bela... when i explained, he said "saya tau, ikan keli, puyu ngan ikan sepat je" in a very unprofessional way... I stopped going to TNB Langkawi d... 3 years... Now i pay online.

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Added on April 14, 2011, 2:58 amnot just that.... my converted stingray and converted kerapu all died!

This post has been edited by Mamat_Lisham: Apr 14 2011, 02:58 AM

anybody here owns a bowfin (Amia calva) or two? rupa like snakehead.... dorsal fins move like aba aba punya dorsal fins...

worry not hulahup. The old tank was 1'x1'x4' which is quite big for a 12" lungfish... the partition was there for me to clean around the tank (+ i push the partition to the other end to protect the lungfish from biting at the pump cable). Now it's at 18" and happily living in a standard 4' tank.

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Added on April 18, 2011, 11:15 amand the water level is at 1/3 of the full capacity. kesian lungfish strunling to get air.

This post has been edited by Mamat_Lisham: Apr 18 2011, 11:15 AM

I have this! 15" or so in a standard 4' aquarium (for now).



Many, many thanks to brother GG Ming!

yeh.... didn't sleep all night and just woke up to go to work thanks to the aba2... interesting to watch...

i got from GG Ming... harga lain2 one... not in season.... u try tanya kanda GG Ming tgk... i baca on the net.... buy big. smaller ones x tahan. fragile.

thanks! anyway... 1 question. how la u can go back to sleep after finding your 2 footer + putting it back in your aquarium?

Mine is swimming happily and yesterday i had 24 ekor gold fish in its tank and watched it work until in the morning i got 24 gold fish (kepala only) in its tank. When first introduced to the tank it can go easily into the tube... By morning and after 24 gold fish, the tummy a bit sangkut d while entering... told this to GG Ming and he LOLed me.

I'm keeping it in a 4' tank. seems like a waste of space but after moving my 3' gator gar from a 4' tank, I think moving a big fish is no fun and the sedative for the fish smells bad... so no moving until betul2 kena move la...

Any special care that u can share will be very helpful...

Cheers

This post has been edited by Mamat_Lisham: Apr 22 2011, 12:23 AM