Flounders.... Fresh water? NO WAY! and yet...

[Neo Sithlord]

So I stopped at the good old LFS today and they had Flounders for sale. They were REALLY TINY about the size of a dime. I've never heard of these!(outside of salt water) Anyone know anything about them? I was thinking of driving up there today and.. well getting afew... They're the oddest thing I've ever seen in a fresh water tank. I'm going to do the normal web search for them and see what their all about, but really! Anyone here know anything about them? Really curious if they get any bigger might be just the screwwed up fish I've been looking for LOL.
-Neo Sithlord

 

[Cearbhaill]

I remember freshwater flounders in the pet shop from way back. They didn't get too awfully big and ate meaty bits. They stick on things like glass pretty well, and usually stay so blended in you never notice them.
That's all I remember- it was 40 years ago!

 

[cgrabe]

I had one for a short while, but he quickly became lunch for my Yellow Lab. I didn't have him long enough to learn much about him.

 

[RTR]

http://www.tomgriffin.com/aquasource/flounder.shtml

But note that the real FW flounder from the Amazon is still rare and expensive as it is rarely imported. The hogchokers so common in LFS are not FW, and get big if properly fed and housed.

HTH

 

[anonapersona]

Fish Ranch here in Houston has some freshwater flounder, small, about 1" by 1 1/2" for something like $7, IIRC. I asked if it could be in a guppy tank with Amano shrimp and was told that was not a good idea if I wanted to keep the guppies and shrimp.