Dragon Fish
This is a dragonfish, also known as a dragon goby or a violet goby.
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Asian arowana, Dragon fish, Asian Bonytongue
Scleropages formosus
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Misc - Arowana Species (Dragon Fish)
(Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) - Dragon Fish, Arrowana, Arawana, and Aruana.
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Arowana Dragon Fish - Feeding Information. Arowana Dragon Fish from Anglo Aquarium. Retrieved on 2006-09-02.
Catalog of Fishes (online version) Search results for Osteoglossum formosum. California Academy of Sciences (2006-04-17).
Dragon Fish, Violet Goby [ Pictures ]
Gobioides broussonnetii
SYN : Amblyopus brasiliensis, A. mexicanus, Gobioides oblongus, Ognichodes broussonnetii, Plecopodus broussonnetii
PD : A slender, elongated, eel-like species with a large head.
Comments: I have had my dragon fish for 2 years. He was around 4" long when I got him and is 1' long and very thick and healthy looking now. He has been one of my favorite fish out of a hobby extending a period of over 12 years.
The name dragon fish stems from their resemblance to the mythical Chinese dragon. This popularity has had both positive and negative effects on their status as endangered species.
I have a african cichlid, blue in color, a dragon fish, a cat fish, albino shark an algea eater, two crabs, and three gold fish.
I placed mine in a tank made up of different types of unusual fish such as a columbian shark catfish, cory catfish, albino shark, dragon fish or Goby.
It started with a ‘dragon fish' and a small sturgeon - when they died I thought their bodies were so unusual that I put them aside to dry out instead of flushing them.
The dragon fish have large rounded eyes, high fins and long tails. The egg-shaped goldfish have a egg shaped body with no dorsal fins and short sculpted tails. The carp like variety has elongated body and shorter fins.
Common Names: Asian Arowana, Dragon Fish, Asian bonytongue
Family: Osteoglossidae (Arowanas)
Order: Osteoglossiformes (bony tongues) ...
Hey, I just bought two bichirs, and I have them in a 55 gallon tank with my two dragon fish(violet goby). they all are not above six inches. And they seem to get along fine.
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It was known as the Dragon Eyes or the Dragon Fish. In the later part of the 1700's it was produced in Japan where it is known as the Demekin.
The piranha, dragon fish and central american cichlid tanks also had a huge amount of plants and a minimum volume of 2000 liters each.
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