A Pacus question

[ChileRelleno]

Yeah.. this guy only looks 11 inches...

http://www.jjphoto.dk/fish_archive/...brachypomus.htm

That one isn't working, try this one,

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...prev=/images?q=brachypomus&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=

 

[chefkeith]

My fish encyclopedia says that Silver Dollar (Metynnis argenteus) are AKA Silver Pacu

Another Silver Dollar (Metynnis hypsauchen) are AKA Plain Metynnis or Pacu.

I didn't mean to cause a stir, just what I read in my book.
Here's page 205 from The Complete Encyclopedia of the Freshwater Aquarium by John Dawes.

 

[ntt]

That one isn't working, try this one,

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...prev=/images?q=brachypomus&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=

thats pumas mine works

 

[wataugachicken]

ntt. . . way to be misleading. good job. if you go back to the florida fisheries page where that "silver pacu" pic came from (instead of just linking the picture without any text), it shows a pic of a silver pacu at the top, and silver dollars at the bottom. you linked the pic of the silver dollars, not the pacu.

the actual page

pacu on top with caption, silver dollars on bottom with caption.

 

[PumaWard]

So, ntt, wild caught fish are seperate species from captive ones? Whodda thunk it.


Chile, thanks for catching the bad link for me