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This video shows a Baby Whale, which is a member of a group of fish called Mormyrids that are not related to the mammals that are
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Click on the images above.
Scientific Name:
Pollimyrus castelnaui ?
Behavior
There are several species of fish that vary in shape and are called Baby Whales. All Baby Whales quarrel with each other. They have an interesting
shape that looks like a miniature whale. They are not closely related to the mammals called whales, but it's fun to call them Baby Whales.
Baby Whales are members of a group of fishes called Mormyrids. Click
here to read a brief
article from the Encyclopedia Britannica about this group of fish.
Here are two Baby Whales both about 4" long and very much like the Baby Whales for sale in our
facility. Click
here
for more about buying a Baby Whale and other wild fish from us.
The picture above shows two Baby Whales quarrelling, and Baby Whales often quarrel and spar with each other. You must look closely
at each of your fish each day to see, if any of them are being nipped and harassed badly by another fish in the same aquarium.
Mormyrid Brains
The Mormyrids are a rather large group of fishes
that are very interesting fish to keep in aquarium.
Their ancestors all lived in Africa, and they all have large brains, are highly intelligent,
and popular among advanced aquarists.
Appropriate Home
An aquarium with at least 29 gallons of water, an
exterior
power filter with a
bio-wheel, a maximum of 1/4 inch of
gravel, and an
aquarium
heater adjusted to a temperature between 78 and 82 degrees F. Click
here for more about warm water aquariums.
Each Baby Whale needs its own cave or piece of plastic pipe as a home. Be sure the rocks or pieces of pipe and everything else you put in your
aquarium will not contaminate the water. Click
here for more about how to avoid contaminating your aquarium.
Be sure their aquarium has a cover because Baby Whales are active jumpers. You should also cover all the holes in the cover. Use clean pieces of plastic cut
from plastic milk cartons and attach them with strong tape.
Click here for more about aquarium covers.
Recommended Diet
Live Black Worms and other live foods such as live brine shrimp. Most Baby whales will also eat frozen brine
shrimp. Click here for more about live Black Worms. Click
here for more about Feeding
Fish.
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Compatibility
We recommend you keep one Baby Whale or several but not a few. If you keep 2, 3, or 4 Baby Whales together in the same aquarium, the
strongest one will often make the others miserable. In a group with 6 or more the stronger Baby Whales become less aggressive.
You need to watch your Baby Whales carefully each day to be sure the strongest one isn't making the weaker ones miserable. Good tank mates for Baby Whales are
Elephant Noses,
African Black
Knife Fish, and
Synodontis Catfish. Baby whales are also kept in aquariums with
Clown Loaches,
Gouramis,
and Angels. Click
here to read more about several other groups of compatible fish.
Shown
above,
a 2" long Black Baby
Whale with
scientific
name
Brienomyrus
brachyistius,
swimming in
a beautiful
aquarium at
AquariumFish.net,
when this
picture was
taken by one
of us.
Size and Lifespan
There are
many species
called Baby Whales
the
commonest
species will grow slowly to be
about 8" long and can live for 6 to 10 years or sometimes even longer.
The Black
Baby Whale,
shown above,
grows to
about 5",
which is a
very nice
size for a
45 to
60-gallon
aquarium.
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