22″ Arowana Eating Mouse 12″ Oscars eating goldfish

22″ arowana eating a mouse then oscars eating some goldfish silver arowana, red, tiger, albino oscars this is my freshwater tank that is 125 gallons. This arowana is very large, he eats about 10 extra large goldfish a week. The oscars have also eaten mice in the past. Their diet consists of food pellets, goldfish, frogs, mice, pinkies, and also sometimes birds (video coming soon) aruanas, arawanas, aruana, arawana are freshwater bony fish of the family Osteoglossidae, sometimes known as “bony tongues.” In this family of fishes, the head is bony and the elongate body is covered by large, heavy scales, with a mosaic pattern of canals. The dorsal and the anal fins have soft rays and are long based, while the pectoral and ventral fins are small. The name ‘bony tongues’ is derived from a toothed bone on the floor of the mouth, the ‘tongue’, equipped with teeth that bite against teeth on the roof of the mouth. The fish can obtain oxygen from air by sucking it into the swim bladder, which is lined with capillaries like lung tissue. The arapaima is an “obligatory air breather” The family contains two subfamilies, Heterotidinae and Osteoglossinae, with all but two of the ten extant species being members of the latter. Species are given with one or more prominent common names. * Subfamily Heterotidinae o Genus Arapaima + Arapaima or pirarucu, Arapaima gigas (Cuvier, 1829) o Genus Heterotis + African arowana, Heterotis niloticus (Cuvier, 1829) * Subfamily Osteoglossinae o Genus …

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