View Full Version : OMG!! ID this fish!!
Fish_3456
07-25-2005, 4:34 PM
What kind of killing machine is this?? please id it.
http://www.acquariofilia.info/download/video_dolce/predatore_guppy.wmv
Slappy*McFish
07-25-2005, 4:39 PM
Looks like a Pike Top Minnow to me. (Belonesox Belizanus)
Kasakato
07-25-2005, 4:39 PM
Is it just me? Can anyone else open it?
Fish_3456
07-25-2005, 4:40 PM
those are some crazy fish! poor guppy :(
cohazard
07-25-2005, 4:42 PM
Is it just me? Can anyone else open it?
Use IE, sometimes other 'browsers' (such as the SBC yahoo, aol, etc...) won't let you open videos or hotlink pictures.
I saw the video............it rocks! That's a cool little fish.
Kasakato
07-25-2005, 4:44 PM
Arggg. I don't even have IE on this PC any more.
Fish_3456
07-25-2005, 4:46 PM
Arggg. I don't even have IE on this PC any more.
How can that be?
Rylan Z
07-25-2005, 4:46 PM
it almost looks like a gar
flyfly
07-25-2005, 4:47 PM
Arggg. I don't even have IE on this PC any more.
firefox worked fine for me
Fish_3456
07-25-2005, 4:47 PM
One of these days im going to get one of those fish!!
Kasakato
07-25-2005, 4:50 PM
It must just be me.
I got rid of IE threw the regesty.
i dont know what it is but its cool. i would like to know so i could buy one.
Fish_3456
07-25-2005, 4:53 PM
I found where the video came from. you might better luck there.
http://www.acquaportal.it/Video/Dolce/
click on the one that says "Belonesox"
Kasakato
07-25-2005, 4:59 PM
Nope.
Fish_3456
07-25-2005, 5:01 PM
:sad: well just search Belonesox on google and you will get an idea of the fish.
or even better search it on yahoo videos you might find the same video there.
wow.. did it eat that guppy? it wasnt that much bigger than the guppy either... i wonder how big it gets?
Fish_3456
07-25-2005, 5:05 PM
yeah it ate the guppy!! crazy!
Slappy*McFish
07-25-2005, 5:17 PM
i dont know what it is but its cool. i would like to know so i could buy one.
Looks like a Pike Top Minnow to me. (Belonesox Belizanus)
;)
Fish_3456
07-25-2005, 5:18 PM
Anyone know where to get one?
FishFreak101
07-25-2005, 6:29 PM
that poor guppy..... THAT IS AN AWSOME FISH!
ashdavid
07-25-2005, 7:26 PM
Reminds me of my african tiger fish, very cool fish!!! :dance:
bubbles42151
07-25-2005, 7:32 PM
where did you find it? :eek:
Fish-Head Aric
07-25-2005, 9:25 PM
It must just be me.
I got rid of IE threw the regesty.
Right click on the link he's given, then Save As.... and direct the file to save where you wish on your PC. That will download the wmv file for you and you can open it with what ever video viewer you have. Realplayer, Quicktime, etc.
Radek
07-25-2005, 11:50 PM
I second Slappy on it being a Belonesox Belizanus. I've seen it under the name pike livebearer (only in a book ;) )
Ryank327
07-26-2005, 12:32 AM
OMG!! Thats Amazing I want one of those!! Those things are lightning fast
!
ashdavid
07-26-2005, 1:04 AM
OMG!! Thats Amazing I want one of those!! Those things are lightning fast
!
They have nothing on an african tiger fish for speed and aggresion toward potential prey. :soda:
labont865
07-26-2005, 1:34 AM
I see them at my LFS sold as fresh water barracuda. They are cool fish but kill everything.
You can see in the slow motin part that it uses the typical Barracuda attack. They coil into an "S" shape and lunge, hit, release, then let it die then they eat.
There are a quite few different common names that are loosely used on four species of fish.
The freshwater barracuda, Topminnow, Pike killifish, Pike livebearer, Pike top livebearer, Pike topminnow, rocket gar, spotted Cachorro, blunt nosed gar, Gar characin, Hujeta Gar, Slant nose gar, and Big-eyed Cachorro all seem to be used as common names for these four commonly confused species.
Belonesox belizanus
Ctenolucius hujeta
Acestrorhynchus falcatus
Acestrorhynchus nasutus
blitzen25bm
07-26-2005, 2:05 AM
its a belonesox. illegal in a lot of places cause they will wipe out all the minnows minnows in the area which will starve all the bigger natives. you can catch them down in florida by the ton. i used to breed these livebearers and they were awesome, they would take half a dozen or so gambusia every few days. kept them in a heavily planted tank and watched the predators work, hiding in the leaves until something swims by and then its an ambush. you can also get them off aquabid but the person that sells them overcharges for everything.
windeindoiel
07-26-2005, 4:41 PM
I found this (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/PikeKillifish/PikeKillifish.html). I see them occasionally sold as freshwater barracuda, and I tell you I want some. Although apparently they're cannaballistic. Anyways I was at the lfs when one of the people working there gave some people a demo of them eating. Dumped a bunch of feeders in the tank and they lasted like a whole 2 minutes. It was amazing.
HangOver
07-26-2005, 9:33 PM
Here is were you can buy 12 off of aquabid look at the link below.
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwlivebearersw&1122769212
Sushi
07-27-2005, 12:29 AM
Hey buddy, it's for sure a short nosed gar. one of the more common gars you can buy out there.
Bobafish
07-27-2005, 1:07 AM
That is one vicious fish, glad its not in my tank.
flyfly
07-27-2005, 2:18 AM
Do you guys really find that extremely amazing? Plenty of fish strike like that. :huh:
D4MI4N
07-27-2005, 4:38 AM
Ctenolucius hujeta (Freshwater Barracuda, Pike Characin, Gar Characin)
D4MI4N
07-27-2005, 4:43 AM
Whoops, I think windeindoiel is right. Looks like I'm one of those confidently mislabling schmucks.