Most exotic animals seen on the pet trade

Great Argus said:
Funny you mention those, they're staples here in big display tanks.
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Big fish stores here tend to sell the native Gulf Saratoga (Scleropages jardinii) and sometimes Southern Saratoga (Scleropages leichardti) as substitutes for Silver Arowana. I never knew Clown Knifefish were in the country until I walked into that store and saw they had them! :eek:
 
Great Argus said:
Funny you mention those, they're staples here in big display tanks.
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Silver Arowanas are illegal in Melbourne im pretty sure, i know they can be seen in other states.
WhistlingKite24 said:
In Australia, big fish stores tend to sell the native Gulf Saratoga (Scleropages jardinii) and sometimes Southern Saratoga (Scleropages leichardti) as substitutes for the rarer Silver Arowana. I never knew Clown Knifefish were in the country until I walked into that store and saw they had them! :eek:
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I havent seen a leichadti either, only jardinii's.
 
Apparently you can buy a Weedy Sea Dragon for $2000 here in Australia. I found this on a local online fish store:
Something INSANE for the marine keepers out there, weedy sea dragons!

These are are available through Shark and Ray Aquaculture Melbourne, please contact us with serious enquiries only.

$2k ea

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WhistlingKite24 said:
Red-tailed Catfish are indeed very rare in Australia and fetch a high price. I have never seen them in any pet stores, only at Sea Life Sunshine Coast when they used to have a full-grown adult.

Snowflake Eels are the species of the moray I see most often in pet stores around here. Ribbon Eels are an 'every so often' species and pop up occasionally. The only other moray species I have seen in the pet trade is Fimbriated Moray Eel (Gymnothorax fimbriatus).

I never get tired of seeing rainbowfish.:)
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What happened to Sealife Mooloolaba’s redtail catfish?

Yoshistar888 said:
A few other juvenile tank busters ive seen in my local fish stores include an Asian red tail catfish, Gulf Saratoga (jardinii arowana), various Peacock bass species. Staples such as Silver sharks (bala sharks), Clown loaches etc can prove problems for smaller tanks.

The most intresting tank busters are in the coldwater section where all most Australian natives are, I do adknowledge they don't grow nearly as big in someones house as in a public aquarium or in the wild but they can easily outgrow their tank (although some are slow growing). The most intriguing one has to be juvenile Barramundi (Lates calcarifer). Also Murray cod, many species of Tandanus catfish, yellowbelly (golden perch) and silver perch (they don;t get large in captivity though).

In my area (Melbourne) Oscars arent as big of a problem as most stores keep an adult (not for sale) to show how big they get. The new 'thing' people buy are baby frontosa cichlids because people think they are so cute and just like an oscar would they devour anything large enough to fit in their mouth, they also grow quick like an oscar but they are nowhere near as hardy.

I remember the juvenile RTC's only being 200$ each but that was almost 10 years ago (I barely remember it because I was very young).That same store also had Zebra plecos (Hypancistrus zebra) as well as some very large cichlids i can barely remember (most likely Jaguar Guapote and/or Parachromis dovii).
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Frontosa aren’t fast growing at all, in fact quite the opposite. For a frontosa to reach its full size it normally takes between four and eight years depending on the fishes gender and locality.
 
WhistlingKite24 said:
The aquarium got rid of all of their large freshwater fish and renovated the area for Little Penguins. All the Black Pacu, Red-tailed Catfish, Alligator Gar, Giant Pangasius etc. moved to other collections.
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I knew they got little penguins but I didn't realise they got rid of these exhibits! That's horrible! That was easily my favourite part of the aquarium. :(

I was under the illusion that the penguin exhibit replaced the old otter exhibit.

Do you know what happened to all these fish, turtles and the crocodile?
 
animal_expert01 said:
:eek::eek::eek::eek:

I knew they got little penguins but I didn't realise they got rid of these exhibits! That's horrible! That was easily my favourite part of the aquarium. :(

I was under the illusion that the penguin exhibit replaced the old otter exhibit.

Do you know what happened to all these fish, turtles and the crocodile?
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All gone - they moved them all to other collections - still trying to figure out where though. It was my favourite part as well and was such a great point of difference Sea Life Sunshine Coast had from the other aquariums.
 
WhistlingKite24 said:
The aquarium got rid of all of their large freshwater fish and renovated the area for Little Penguins. All the Black Pacu, Red-tailed Catfish, Alligator Gar, Giant Pangasius etc. moved to other collections.
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SEAlife in Australia generally dosent like non native freshwater fish as a similar thing happened in Melbourne aquarium, except Melbourne Aquarium didn't have many large freswater fish apart from a tank i dont remember and it was mainly smaller exotic species. Right away the freshwater fish were phased out only leaving one tank with non native fish which just recently (last couple years) has now been converted into another (the aquarium already had like 5) tank for rainbowfish (too small to be Murray river rainbows)
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I'm no armadillo expert but what separates that from one of the other two hairy armadillos in the US or even a Six-Banded? The photo doesn't show much of the animal.

~Thylo
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Given previous discussion I would be very surprised if it was what they claim it is. The one in question here seems hairy, but as you observe, what is the difference? :p
I'd like to see a side view to count bands and have a more overall look at it.
 
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