African Lung Fish [Archive]

OrionGirl

01-06-2003, 12:01 PM

As some of you may know, I recently saved an african lung fish who had been turned in to the LFS. They were unable to find a home for him locally, and were going to have to put it down soon. I posted here and Butt-Munch was willing to give the fish his very own 300 gallon home. I picked the ALF up from the LFS Friday evening, and he spent the might at my house in a 55 (very cramped!). We then boxed him up and trekked to Wichita KS, where we met with Butt-Munch and sent the big guy on his way to a much better home.

I promised I would post pictures, and am now getting time to do so. The fish was 32-33 inches long, and this is in a 55 gallon tank. There are three pics--I don't have time to upload them to my webpage right now, so there will be 2 more replies with pics.

OrionGirl

01-06-2003, 12:03 PM

A face only a mother could love...

OrionGirl

01-06-2003, 12:08 PM

And here is his head in the box we transported him in. He's curled around--about a half curl.

This fish was amazing--I was thrilled to have him 'stay over' for the night. Sorry for the bubbles and poor pictures--we didn't want to annoy him by making him pose too much.

Butt-Munch--if you could please post a note on how he's doing now, I'd appreciate it!

Wanda

01-12-2003, 8:26 PM

Butt Munch -- we'd sure be interested in hearing how he's settling in to his new home ...

OrionGirl -- you really went to a lot of effort for this fish -- how wonderful of you!

Bantam

01-13-2003, 4:29 PM

Butt-Munch, please, please, please can we have pics. Well done to both of you for saving the fish.

BigFishDude

02-01-2003, 7:02 PM

come on butt-munch, don't be a butt-munch and hold out on that update :p.

OrionGirl

02-04-2003, 5:15 PM

Here's a link--there's a couple pics posted on Mojo's site.

http://208.51.130.220/~mojo/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Photo;action=display;num=1043932522

Looks to be doing well, yes? :)