African Lungfish, The Best Pet Fish?
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Lungfish are crazy! The West African lungfish (Protopterus annectens) is an impressively large fish that can survive for years with no water. They obviously have lungs. This is an amazing fish. But, is it a good pet? Is the African lungfish the best pet fish for you?
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This lecture demonstrates why Clint is so superb at teaching. He gives us all the facts in such a way that not only is it easy to understand but it's fun! Thank you as always Clint!👍👍👍👍👍
YES! I'd be a hell of a lot better and more knowledgeable about science related things if Clint was teaching!
Honestly its always the science teachers that are the coolest and best.
I love Clint's excitement as he explains concepts, like the evolutionary development of lungs in this video. It's an awesome example of how fascinating and entertaining science can be. Clint is a master of teaching just through sharing his passion for it. Thanks for sharing your love and knowledge of zoology!
Thank you! This is the coolest stuff in the world. It amazes me that some people manage to suck all of the fun out of it.
Fish can burp and fart, turtles can breathe through thier butts, and there is a fish that can drown. Nature you are so bizarre.
Many fish can drown...poor sharks
Nd, another fun fact fish can taste food with their whole bodies as they have taste buds on their skin.
all fish can drown
@@yallfwj that happened in a bay near me too many fish = all of them dead
@@avidhossanmansur9830 Bull sharks pee in freshwater to make it a more tolerable salinity
I really like learning strange animal facts. The swim bladder to lung evolution is something I can definitely dazzle my fellow nerds with. Keep sharing amazing animal facts please!
There are some animals I want to cover just so we can geek out about how cool they are.
It's the reason we have such lousy eating arrangements where food going the wrong way can kill you.
Velvet worms, at some point? :D
@@ClintsReptiles I'd definitely watch a whole series from you, devoted solely to rad animals even if it has absolutely nothing to do with pets.
@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib Isnt that a mammal thing tho? Reptiles can eat and breath at the same time iirc.
These fish are like living dinosaurs and almost impossible to kill . Mine climbed out and was on the floor the
whole night, my cat chewed some of its fins off but I put it back in the tank and it's been fine since.
Clint teaches biology better than high school does
It’s literally his job, he has a PhD
@@ar8590 That's why he's so good at it 😌
It's kinda how learning biology in university is nothing like biology in high school
The teachers are all passionate about their subject so the classes (except biochemistry, f biochemistry) are pretty damn interesting. You don't have a guy who likes fish talking to you about rocks but a guy studying fish telling you about fish
When you discuss fish and other aquatic animals that need to be kept in an aquarium you should replace handalability with how easily you can cohabitate them with other fish
Maybe compatibility would be interesting. But it's also worth knowing whether a fish is going to be bitey. Arowanas and lungfish seem a little tricky to handle. Some of the big cichlids will draw blood, too. I've seen people keeping gars in aquariums, but I'd definitely be afraid of them.
If you're looking for monster fish and can provide the cooler water they'd need, I'd think about centrarchids (sunfish, crappies, and bass), but be ready with a big enough tank. You might get by with a 75 gallon for a green sunfish (extremely aggressive). You could even keep a few bluegills together (only a little bit scrappy though significantly larger) in a 200 gallon. But a largemouth bass is going to need an enormous aquarium. Almost all of the centrarchids are rough customers, but they won't hurt their keeper even if they did try to bite. Oh, and they can jump, so you need a good lid. And of course, you'd need to check your local wildlife laws to find out which ones you are allowed to keep.
I'd love a betta fish video, maybe they're not cool like a shark, but I like them. They're quite available, but is it the best pet fish for me? I'd also love a top 5 aquarium plants for people who aren't good with plants.
1. Anubias (all varities)
2. Java fern
3. Amazon frogbit
4. Cryptocoryne wendtii
5. Marimo moss balls.
These are all pretty bulletproof
Do not get a moss ball right now any bought after I believe February need to be destroyed. Look into it
I owned one years ago. It was really cool. I didnt like him a first but he grew on me and let me pet him. When we rehomed him my hubby thought he would reach in and pick him up. It tried to bite him. So they knew the difference between my hubby and I.
He’s the best at what he do. I love it
Your Arowana impression was superb 😂 Great video!
The transition between fish and tetrapods
Love me some lung fish
So cool! I’d love to see an episode on mudskippers too c:
6:17 never thought a fish could look so much like a seal
Review the Australian lungfish next :)
You should do a video on keeping Mata Mata turtles as pets
Very cool video! Will you make one about the Fahaka puffer? (T. Lineatus) or MBU please! 😁
You should do a video on the ropefish (also called the reedfish) I think they would be a better alternative to the lungfish. You can feed them by hand and as long as it's tank mates are the same size or bigger you don't have to worry about unfortunate buffets (as much)
Please because using fine sand they can get impacted with sand ...I have a rescue that had a blockage of sand the size of a tennis ball...look like a Nike check mark no joke ...there like vacuums when they eat lol... it was like an anchor in the middle of his body ...9 strait weeks of treatment every day and he's doing amazing almost 2 years later...
Please do the giant gourami fish. There is a video of a guy carrying his pet fish around out of the water, but that's probably a bit cruel.
Are these fish a mimic of a type of snake? Its pattern just reminds me of a snake and the fact that they can go on land i feel looking like a snake would probably help deter predators.
Are mud skipper fish more handle-able than lung fish?
Can you do Asian snake heads
I think I found a bowfin a few years ago behind my dad's apartment in Minnesota. I found it in a puddle after a heavy rain, I was like "???, There have not been any recent tornadoes". 😅 Thank you for educating me Clint, it was so cool to learn about these fish. 😊💙🫁
have you heard of halfbeaks?
can you do betta fish plz
So awesome
It looks like it has floppy noodle arms
It does have floppy noodle arms B)
Floppy noodle arms are the best pet arms 🥰
*Someone make a loop of **2:16** - **2:20*
( _I REALLY want someone to actually make this a thing..._ )
I wonder if the africans would eat the fish
Would you eat Gandalf??
Axlotl soon?
Out of all the amphibious bony fish I prefer mudskippers to lungfish, just because I think their process of slowly becoming second amphibians that is still ongoing is very cool. But lungfish are cool.
I'd like to cover them too!
@@ClintsReptiles Mudskippers make surprisingly good pets, they are incredibly interactive with their owners and its really funny to see them exploring their enviroment, but brackish water aquariums are somewhat difficult to deal with, so in my opinion it shouldn't be the first fish for anyone, but on the other hand they are surprisingly tough, so even though not super beginner level, it's still not a high difficulty fish, if their owners do their homework on water quality maintenance they should be fine.
@@rafaelalvessantos12 I was just wondering if you could keep mudskippers as pets, they're so awesome!
@Ludvig Renström SJFe So cool :)
Mudskippers do seem to be the "fish" that is most similar to amphibians in terms of lifestyle even though I'm sure that Clint will tell you that phylogenetically speaking the lungfish is actually the "fish" that is the closest to tetrapods including amphibians! lol
For a weird lung having wizard fish, his face is kind of cute ☺️ and the patterns on his belly are really pretty!
So cute!
Thought you were talking about Clint for a second LUL
"It hasn't rained in your town in 3 years."
So the greater Phoenix area..
Or here in Utah...
I'm in Tucson and I feel that
Colorado could be on the list as well.
@@Toastedtasty42 I just want it to rain so I can go shooting in the desert. Damn Forrest service and Fish and Game and BLM have the entire wilderness shut down to shooting for "fire restrictions" despite the fact that bullets don't cause fires.
About to say the same thing lol
Clint’s talk about swim bladders and natural buoyancy brought me back the good old days of being obsessed with Animal Planet and the science channel. Thanks for the rad lesson, Clint! I enjoyed every second of it!
Wizard fish?!? Sounds stinkin' rad to me!!!
Indubitably! It was so nice getting to talk with you again this week! Keep being amazing!
If I recall correctly, there's apparently some paleontological evidence that rather than lungs evolving from the swim bladder, it's actually the other way around. That fish first evolved a rudimentary lung to get extra oxygen from the air, and then it evolved into a system for controlling buoyancy, and that would eventually evolve into the lungs that land vertebrates have.
It probably has gone back and forth many times.
What the initial use for that bag of gas was is kind of unanswerable, and the thing I've taken from the debate is that the two uses aren't mutually exclusive, and aren't even that big of an evolutionary transition to swap between.
Yes, read the old essay by Stephen Jay Gould on this. Teleosts, the masters of the swim bladder, are very derived fishes. Lungs predate them and their swim bladders. More ancestral fishes like gar and sturgeon further show how this is true. The lung came first. I believe the old essay is “Full of hot air”
Loved the swim bladder explanation! I used to keep fish, but I never learned how the swim bladder works.
Also, there are weird wizard catfish that live in southwest Florida, and sometimes they like to fish-waddle across the road and give me a heart attack 😂
To think that Clint’s Tegu lizard for example is actually more closely related to the lungfish than the lungfish is to any other fish including the coelacanth is mind blowing considering that lungfish (dipnomorpha) and tetrapods (tetrapodomorpha) are both part of the rhipidistia clade!
Tegu? Clint himself is more closely rated to the lungfish than other (nontetrapod) fish.
Oh man, the lungfish actually chewing those food pellets (or whatever it was) made my day. Doesn't look fishy at all!
It does look mutch more like a amphibian with its wibbily fin legs too
I love the passionate explanation of a swim bladder! Never change Clint.
Hey Clint love the video lungfish are amazing fish 👌. And I would love to give you one or two of my baby monitors they’ll be hatching soon and as far as I know I’m the only one in United States to successfully breed them and not just once but 3 times. Now I have 3 clutches of 85 eggs in total and would love to give you one or two if your interested??
How cool! What kind of monitors are they?
That would probably be amazing assuming that I have a suitable enclosure. What species??
Savannah monitors I know they are common but not captive bred and really want to give some to great homes and I’ll be keeping most of them. I hate that they taken from the wild in such huge numbers and wanted to help the species I love so much and have been working with for over 25years now. As far as I know It’s only been done a few times and mostly by accident luckily I have some great friends around the world that helped me get this far. Sorry for going off topic but yea if you are interested I’d love to send you one or two and should be hatching out in next month or two it’s hard to find info on incubation so that’s estimating.
Or if you know any die hard Savannah monitor people I’d really want to chat with them because I’m only giving them to people that already have Savannah monitors in hope to breed them in the future. So if you don’t have a Savannah already your not getting one of my precious babies unless I already know your stinking rad 👍
Check out animal1guy he has a male savannah and loves monitors
Great video. But you did forget to mention that the Eastern and west African lungfish are often sold as the same animal which can be an issue cause the western can get up to 6 feet long.
That’s would be a surprise
No mention of 'Granddad'? The longest lived lungfish in captivity lived in the Shedd Aquarium, he was brought in for the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. I had the honor to see him several times when visiting the aquarium. He's a massive dude.
If they maxed out at like 6-12” I’d be all over it, cuz they’re stinking rad! But I’m not in the market for a 100+gallon tank at this point. Great video! Phylogenetic videos on relationships for fish to mammals &/or reptiles coming soon I hope!?
I plan to cover something like that on Clint Explains if not here as well.
Smaller Polypterids max out at around 12 to 14 inches.
I think the gilled lungfish stays about 12"
Clint, from my 17 years of experience with lung fish in going to tell you that rocks are a bad idea for substrate unless they are big rocks. Mine would suck up rocks and throw them against the glass when he wanted a treat. He cracked the glass in a couple of tanks. He also hated heaters. I think they made a noise. He would bang the heater against the wall until it broke. I gave up on heaters after the first year. We used a whole bunch of polyhedral dice for substrate since that wouldn't break the glass or just no substrate. He never tried any people but he did drag a cat into the tank by her tongue once. Cat and fish were both fine but the fish wanted a rematch. The cat had been stalking him for a long time.
Its like a proto-amphibian! What a cool animal, I never considered how the lungs could have developed from the swim bladder - but when you mention it, it makes perfect sense!
There's also a theory that swim bladders evolved from lungs. Though from this video they could have been used as both from the beginning.
I don’t know why this was recommended to me but now I want a lung fish
9:20 imagine trying to explain to your friends that your fish drowned
You are literally everything my animal- and biology-loving brain wanted to see my whole life, not gonna lie! Your excitement and super funny explanations are such a treasure, I think you could get everyone interested into in animals and biology. Five year old me who was constantly glued to the screen when any sort of nature documentary was on would‘ve given anything for a TV show like your channel. And here I am, 27 year old me, glued to my phone when one of your videos is on 🤧🥰
Awww
Man, this wizard fish is stinkin' rad. In a couple of clips in the video, the fish waved at the camera and I loved it. :D
Can you do a video on crows or ravens? Corvids are my favorite animals and are super smart.
I'd like that very much!
@@ClintsReptiles thanks for the reply! keep up the good work. You're the best animal channel on RUclips.
If you want a fish like the lungfish that doesn’t get as big but also has lungs get a bichir (there’s bichirs that get 40+ inches I’d recommend a senegalus only get about 10 inches 15 if you’re lucky and get good genetics)
Also they live for 20 years so expect a commitment and they will take that long to get full grown but you can have your very own fish from 250 million years ago
I’d love for you to make a video on the there are 15 different species all different patterns finlets etc senegalus, polli, weeksii, conginicius, delhezi, palmas palmas, lapardei, buettikoferi, teugelsi, ornatipinnis, retropinnis, mokelembembe, bichir bichir, endlicheri, ansorgii. But the only one you’ll find are the delhezi senegalus endli and ornate unless you have a importer from africa
I’ve personally owned buettikoferi(gorgeous but a angry lil thing), delhezi, senegalus, and ornatapinnis(most people favorite pattern)(people say they’re aggressive but mine are like puppy dogs but also like dogs they establish a pecking order)
You are great clint. The best thing i love is your way of representing the animal .
Love From india 🇮🇳❤️
This definitely won’t do good in my 6 gallon aquascape
I know it's not a reptile but i would like a video on the red fox, it is my dream animal, ^^. Other than that, amazing work and beautiful videos thanks a lot.
With that being said, it was beyond informative and I learned a lot. Not a surprise. You are quite good!!
Hey Clint if you dont respond it's okay but If you had to give the dumerils monitor a rating what would it be. And also ic you can Plsssss do a video on them
Any chance we can get one of these for the more common, oft neglected fish? Bettas or goldfish? Seems like a bit of education could do a lot of good for those pet fish in particular.
Lungfish teeth are scary looking cuz they look like crooked human teeth
Just here wishing Clint had been my science teacher. He makes me want to know more, instead of wanting to be done.
Hey Clint, a bit off topic but as we know you LOVE common snapping turtles. And as such I believe you'll enjoy Gizmo the common snapping turtle videos from Jeffrey Perico. Rarely would I call a snapper cuddly, but he truly acts like a puppy.
He is super amazing!
We used to put swim bladders in the sun. They'd pop so loud it sounded like a gun.
I used to own one of these. They are not for beginners for sure. They get huge and mine became very food motivated. So my hands became food items to it too. A very interesting and cool fish but this one requires some extra knowledge.
Clint your so pleasant
Thank you 😊
Can we do a yellow bellied sea snake video? Just out of curiosity!
I have an unusual request for Clint. So I'm studying to be a herpetologist and I was working at an exotic reptile and amphibian store in StL. Last winter I got Leptospirosis from a from the mice and was in the hospital for a week. Took them forever to crack down my case. Now, I got fired and I can't get a job ANYWHERE involving animals. Can you maybe talk about diseases you can get from the hobby because this is all I want to do and it's looking like I will never be able to fulfill my dreams of being a herpetologist. If this comment can get some likes to get Clint's attention that would honestly help me with my decisions moving forward.
Liked, I hope you can get the answer you're looking for.
Could have capitalized on last week by the saying the actually African lung fish after the totally not Russian Russian tortoise lol
Dude they’re already on course for evolution. It looks like they have four limbs.
Off topic but this guy reminds me of Aboleths from DnD so much😂
Not gonna lie one of the reasons i enjoy coming here is to incorporate real life dangers, mechanisms, interesting quirks into monsters i design.
Simply because in my opinion, nature is vastly more terrifying and intelligent then i will ever be😂
I do the same things sometimes. I remember one time watching a video on how you can use a grape to make plasma in a microwave and boom, plasma slime monster idea. On Scishow episode on slimemolds, I imagined up a MechaGodzilla style giant robot controlled and powered by a genetically modified slime mold
@@porakiyadraekojin3390 dude thats so cool, really creative too!
@@jamescanjuggle Thank you. I like to take pride in my imagination sometimes. One of my favorite things to do is imagining up giant monsters and stuff. Only downside, I suck at drawing XD
men when i first saw this pic, i thought it was a Cerberus ahhahah
day 3 of asking clint to do a video on rough green snake
Australian lungfish is the best lungfish.
I loved e explanation of how many fish have a functional long, even though not everyone often thinks of it that way.. great video as always!
Tom and I used to hang out a lot until he went on land and turned into a salamander.
Pretty insane to think that being rhipidistians, tetrapods like frogs (amphibians), lizards and birds (sauropsids i.e., "reptiles") and us humans (mammals) are actually more closely related to the lungfish than the lungfish is to ANY other vertebrate that we commonly call "fish" including the fellow the coelacanth which is a sarcopterygian but not a rhipidistian like lungfish and us tetrapods!
Lungfish and bichirs are my favorite fish to interact with. And they are the handleable compared to other fish.
This fish looks like the mosasaurs equivalent of a salamander.
I've had a west african lungfish for over a year now and I loooove him! They're so fun and have such a weird personality!
Best bony fish impression ever, hands (fins?) down; both accurate and adorable!!
Nobody had ever explained the evolution of lungs FROM SWIM BLADDERS nearly as well as that 😮 your students are so freaking lucky man. Thank you.
I personally have an African lungfish and they are good pets. not too expensive (usually) and only require specific food size and high maintenance (they are very dirty). They are very hardy fish but also require large (250-300 or 1,060 liter tank) which is expensive. They also like living under floating plants and love large hides you put in the tank, and they like dimmed lights. I'm planning to get another and it will cost about 860 dollars but if you really want to get high tech gadgets and expensive sand for it, that will be closer to 1000-1300 dollars. They may be ugly but they are very rare and unique creatures. NOTE: dont just leave them in wet and a foot deep tank of sand, that will kill them.
Can you please do axolotl next?
Sorry I'll have to compare it to the other wizard fish first to make a decision.
Do a collared lizard and axolotl
Can you do a video on dumerils boas? I know you did a video on dumerils MONITORS but I hardly see anyone talking about the absolutely BOA-DACIOUS dumerils boas. Can you possibly remedy this?
I do especially love the Australian Lungfish. They look so prehistoric 😍
Also regarding fully aquatic Animals: I would love to see a Video about the Fly River Turtle. One of my absolute Dream Reptiles to own someday. But I'll definitely need to own a House first. They get huge and are definitely no Animal that you can easily move with
Channa... this fish is booming at SEA fishkeeper community... their main project to get more color..
I love these fish videos! 😊
Clint explains the bag of chip incident so well it's like he experienced this himself. Lol.
There was a lung fish at the Shedd Aquarium Chicago which lived for nearly a century.
It was called Grandad, it was the oldest zoo animal in captivity at the time of its death.
Snakeheads, climbing pearch, walking catfish all can live in a temporary ponds And can live underground for months
Revelation 14:12
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3 + 3 + 4 + 3 + 2 = 15. 15/3 = 3. If the overall score is the average of the scores for the five categories, then the African lungfish gets a little higher overall score than you announced.
That's not to say that I disagree with your overall score. So we'd need to drop two of the 3s to 2s. I'd consider changing handleability and care to 2s simply because of the fish's size and aggression and the upkeep on an enormous tank. For comparison, you gave the arowana a 1 for handleability and a 2 for care, bringing its overall score to 2.4. Arowanas are jumpers, and lungfish are escape artists. Both can be very aggressive toward both their tankmates and their owners. And they would require similar size tanks. So, I'd say that 2.4 for the arowana and 2.6 for the lungfish would make sense.
I had one years ago. Lived 20 years. Loved to eat snails the best. Even big mystery snails, but we'd take the little nuisance snails out of the other tanks and put them in his. He preferred tetra type (jungle) water. He also liked floating plants to rest in. We mostly fed him live black worms and brine shrimp.
What about a video on keeping a Bowfin, North America's only lungfish?
I landed on this video from a look at today's wikipedia picture of the day. It was a grey triggerfish and the description talked about it being a ray-finned fish. I read about the lobe-finned fish and thought it would be AWESOME to have one as a pet so I googled that and lo and behold: one of my favorite youtube channels talking about exactly that! Awesome video guys :)
And some may know this: South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) may not look quite as cool, but they are significantly tamer. Care is very similar.
Oh please Shave your beard!!You look good without it just kidding 😂!!!