View Full Version : is a miniature dolphin real?
shaun1
11-30-2005, 9:02 PM
hey im new to this forum but , just kinda new to fish i got a 10 gallon aqarium and two betta fish . well any who I was wondering is a miniture dolphin real i was walk through the fish stuff in walmart and herd some guys talking about them. thanks
TheMightyQueenPixie
11-30-2005, 9:29 PM
They may of been talking about a "baby whale"...Not a whale at all...
moesha
11-30-2005, 11:03 PM
aww, are you serious?
BELLUM
11-30-2005, 11:04 PM
I heard of baby whales. But do you have two male bettas?
http://badmanstropicalfish.com/mb_pictures/debbs/baby_whale1.jpg
thedogzoo
12-01-2005, 9:49 AM
Hi Liz! What in the heck kind of fish is that in the pic you posted? It is so great! Jenni
FisheyLisa
12-01-2005, 10:11 AM
That is the whale they were talking about in the pic.
If there were 2 males in an undivided tank, there aren't now!!
BELLUM
12-01-2005, 6:09 PM
If there were 2 males in an undivided tank, there aren't now!!
Ha Ha that was going to be my point
hurdledude1298
12-01-2005, 6:10 PM
there is such thing as a mini dolphin (actually called dolphin fish) i studied it before it is not a dolphin at all and it is located near africa or something like that. its really wierd lookijng look up dolphinfish on google and thats what it is
Betta-Luvn
12-01-2005, 6:50 PM
Do you have 2 male bettas?!?!?!????!!!!!
yourwar
12-01-2005, 8:00 PM
Hurry! THEY ARE GONNA KILL EACHOTHER TO DEATH! AHH! :thud: ... The Bettas that is.
BELLUM
12-01-2005, 8:22 PM
Thank you guys for helping me make my point.
z71silverado98
12-02-2005, 2:49 AM
not if they are imbellis, doubt that they are though.
UncaBret
12-02-2005, 9:31 AM
If dolphins follow the same "it'll grow to fit the tank" rule that fish do, I suppose it could be possible. They might even live for a year or two.
z71silverado98
12-02-2005, 12:42 PM
If dolphins follow the same "it'll grow to fit the tank" rule that fish do, I suppose it could be possible. They might even live for a year or two.
of course, all fish follow that rule and dolphins are fish arent they
Are you sure fish only grow to fit the tank? I thought that was a myth. I thought the only reason that was true was because they died when they got too large for the amount of water and the bioload toxicated them... to death...
hurdledude1298
12-02-2005, 2:08 PM
DOLPHINS ARE NOT, I REPEAT NOT, FISH! THEY ARE MAMMALS!!!!!!
I hate people that think dolphins and whales are fish!
jennypenny
12-02-2005, 5:05 PM
i think (and hope) the talk of the fish only growing to fit the tank and dolfins being fish was sarcasium, but next time let every one know if your joking. Otherwise someone might just believe you.
UncaBret
12-02-2005, 5:22 PM
Sorry, you're right. We were joking!
Unfortunatly, there are too many people in the pet biz that will tell you these things as fact.
Wouldn't be cool if there really was a mini dolphin, tho? You could build a mini SeaWorld and train them to do tricks and stuff.
Ghostshrimp55
12-02-2005, 5:53 PM
whoa, whoa, whoa. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..............WHOA!............dolphins aren't fish?
UncaBret
12-02-2005, 6:01 PM
whoa, whoa, whoa. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa..............WHOA!............dolphins aren't fish?
Didn't you get the memo?
UncaBret
12-02-2005, 6:03 PM
Maybe the Supreme Court could declare them to be fish.
They did declare tomatos to be vegetables, after all. Or is that tomatoes? Mr. Quayle?
UncaBret
12-02-2005, 6:11 PM
Hey, Shaun. There is a lot of silly stuff on this forum, but listen to what these people say when they are not being silly. We were all newbies once.
(Oh, yeah. Listen to me, going on like I'm a battle scarred veteran now!)
I learned a lot from this group of friends.
abraham
12-02-2005, 6:19 PM
believe it or not, (and I'm sure that most of you won't, but it's true!), I've had 2 male betta's in one tank before. I was a kid and had a twenty gallon tank. I had an adult male betta and bought 3 juvenile bettas. 2 of them turned out to be females, and one a male. My adult male would slow down and give the "kid" an serious stare-down, but they never fought. Just lucky I guess...
abraham
Yoemen
12-02-2005, 11:36 PM
I believe what one of the earlier posters was referring to as a mini dolphin being a fish off the coast of africe is referring to a daulphin which is actually not limited to just africa and is served up at fine sea food restaruants as Mahi Mahi. It is indeed a fish, and a lot of fun to reel in, almost as much fun as a king fish.
Btw, I learned the painful way why red snappers are called red snappers my first deep sea fishing trip when I tried to hold one like a bass. OUCHIE
xboxlive2020
12-02-2005, 11:47 PM
Whales and dophins aren't fish. In fact, they were both once land creatures. Evolution caused them to move into the water.
BELLUM
12-03-2005, 12:56 AM
Whales and dophins aren't fish. In fact, they were both once land creatures. Evolution caused them to move into the water.
Really, can you prove that to me? Cause life started in the oceans, then moved to land.
Yeah I thought life started as microscopic organisms in the water (since water is the basis of life and single celled organisms wouldn't really be able to travel miles over land to get to water), evolved into fish and stuff, which evolved into reptiles, which evolved into mammals.... or something along those lines.
RockabillyChick
12-03-2005, 11:19 AM
unless you dont believe in evolution because its just a theory that hasn't actually been proven. even Einstine said that the more he learned about the universe, the more he realized that it could not have been an accident, there there had to have been a designer, a creator.
Raskolnikov
12-03-2005, 11:21 AM
Cause life started in the oceans, then moved to land.
Yeah I thought life started as microscopic organisms in the water (since water is the basis of life and single celled organisms wouldn't really be able to travel miles over land to get to water), evolved into fish and stuff, which evolved into reptiles, which evolved into mammals.... or something along those lines.
If it was only that simple. Anyway, this gives a very brief overview regarding cetacean origins:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20010922/fob1.asp
However, let's try to get this derailed train-wreck of a topic back on track regarding the posters original question. There is a tropical aquarium fish (freshwater) with the petstore name of "baby whale". Pet-trade names of fish are completely baseless, and one species may have many many such names. One in particular that irks me with regularity is the 'dinosaur eel' moniker of the Polypterus senegalus. It's not an eel; it's not a dinosaur. Anyway, my point is that there very well may be some fish that Walmart or any other store may be calling a 'dolphin fish'. This method of pulling a name out of a hat plagues many an aquarist when they long to find out more information concerning fishes that they may have seen in a store of even bought.
PS - and I see that I'm too late. We're back to the crossroads between the layman's understanding of what the term theory means and how it is used within the scientific community. A crossroad so far proved unpassable on this forum, and the cause of many problems already. Please, take it to GCC.
Harry Tolen
12-03-2005, 12:35 PM
There is no way we are going to have the Evolution debate again, this time in the Freshwater Newbie forum. Take it to GCC if you can, although I think that the topic will be shut down over there as well, because it's been done to death and the people who don't understand the principles underlying the theory are never going to "get it" as a result of arguments presented in discussion threads, no matter how well-sourced or persuasive.