tongue fish

[LMOUTHBASS]

anyone know anything about these??? i saw them at my local lfs they loo cool but have no idea what type of fish they are - they look like a very small tan flounder sorta that type of look anyhow a flat fish on the bottom of the tank - i dont know what they eat if there peacefull or not -i was thinkin about getting one

[mickey]

http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/chekjawa/ria/photos/r349.jpg

CHECK OUT THE LINK AND SEE IF THIS IS THE FISH YOU MENTIONED,
CHEERS,

[rich]

yikes i hope that isnt what you saw in your lfs, that guy is creepy. dunno what the allure of that fish would be.

i wonder if what your looking at in your store is a chinese hillstream loach. they always seem to have differant names in stores. butterfly loach, hillstream loach, chinese hillstream loach, borneo mouth sucker. the look like 3 inch flounder things with a leopard type skin coloration. nice fish, ive got one and hes quite peacefull and entertaining.

[Dapple2]

Here's another "tongue fish" http://www.bertaut.com/tonguefish.gif Too bad it wasn't labeled...

The previous pic looks like a red tongue sole (Cynoglossus abbreviatus) perhaps http://www.pref.saga.jp/suisan/gyosei/fish049.jpg

Haven't seen any referances to kepping them in aquaria, but you could try running that through a search engine at least. Gives ya a starting point ;)

[cdawson]

I would think that they are brackish to marine though like the standard FW sole.

Try this link for info: It has no pictures, but if you can indentify it elsewhere it'd be a good source of info.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/fwflounders.htm