Trip to Kanyakumari: Chapter 5: Aqua World Fish Exhibition, Kanyakumari: Part 5
Fishes in the exhibition:
- Name: Red Tail Cat Fish
Scientific Name: Phractocephalus
Family: Pimelodidae
Size: 24 inches
Feed: Carnivore
Origin: Brazil, Venezuela - Name: Silver Dollar
Family: Serrasalmiae
Size: 5-8 inches
Food: Diet high in vegetable based, frozen dried and flake food, small live food.
Origin: South America - Name: Snake heads
Common Name: Giant Snake head/Murrel
Zoological Name: Channa Marulius
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Pisces
Order: Channiformes
Genus: Channa
Species: Marulius
Description: It is a air breathing fish. It is suitable for culture in irrigation wells and shallow derelict swamps and breeds in the pre-monsoon months. It reaches a maximum size of about 1.2m. - Name: Flower Horn
They have been created through cross breeding different South American Cichlids. The male fish has a hump on the forehead. - Name: Peacock Spiny Eel
Scientific Name: Macrognathus Aculeatus
Origin: South East Asia
Size: 14 inches
Food: Blood worms, Mosquito larvae - Cat Fish:
- Name: Red Tail Tinfoil Barb
Scientific Name: Bar Bodes Schwanenfeldil
Size: 14 inches
Food: Floating Flake food - Name: Molly
Maximum Size: 3 inches
Diet: The black Molly is omnivorous and prefers both meat food and algae. Provide this fish with an algae-based flake food as well as freeze-dried bloodworms, tubifex and brine shrimp.
Origin: Farm based, Singapore - Name: River Stone Carp
Scientific Name: Psilorhynchus Sucatio
Size: Up to 60 cms.
Distribution: India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Found mainly in the edges of sandy streams.









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Final_Transit:
Hey Mangesh
16 December 2008, 9:18 amNice pictures of this whole series. So many fish, never knew
Priyank
admin:
Thanks…
16 December 2008, 6:29 pmU.S.B.Devan:
I was indeed looking for details aquaculture of Channel catfish,Murrel and Peacock Spiny Eel.Thaks for the info.
23 January 2010, 7:19 pmU.S.B.D
admin:
@ U.S.B.Devan. Welcome!
25 January 2010, 5:52 pm