Knifefish

[mete]

Watching Animal Planet , a program about fish in the Amazon. There is a knifefish which had never been photographed in the water .It swims vertical , head down !!
Also large armored catfish and a fish that eats wood ! That has necessary bacteria to digest wood !

 

[Bushman5]

cool! i would love to see an armoured catfish!

 

[Rupestris]

I'd love to fish the Amazon for Piranha and throw some poppers or bucktails for Peacock Bass.

 

[Codger_64]

cool! i would love to see an armoured catfish!

 

[hiwa]

You needs at least a .30 cal "fishing rod" to land that puppy

 

[Tuxdad]

Looks like it's prepped for the worse first...lol

 

[6shooter]

It'd be sick to noodle one of those guys. Pull that puppy out of the water and you'd look like terminator

 

[Wandering_About]

The Amazon has some truly incredible and unique fish. The whole ecosystem in that area is completely fascinating and brilliant.

That being said, I don't really ever want to go there. I hate heat, humidity, thick jungle-like vegetation, mosquitos, and pretty much all other biting bugs.

 

[baldtaco-II]

Dope up on the sleeping pills like Ed Stafford so you can get some rest.

 

[kvaughn]

The Amazon has some truly incredible and unique fish. The whole ecosystem in that area is completely fascinating and brilliant.

That being said, I don't really ever want to go there. I hate heat, humidity, thick jungle-like vegetation, mosquitos, and pretty much all other biting bugs.

Yeah, like that one that swims into the pee hole of your Johnson and you cant get it out. Truly incredible and unique.---- Candura I think--KV

 

[Dnalsi]

Yeah, like that one that swims into the pee hole of your Johnson and you cant get it out. Truly incredible and unique.---- Candura I think--KV

I remember something about this from the movie "Sniper" with Tom Berenger.

From Wiki:
‎Candiru (English and Portuguese) or candirú (Spanish), also known as canero or toothpick fish, are a number of genera of parasitic freshwater catfish in the family Trichomycteridae; all are native to the Amazon River.

Known case: ( warning viewing photos will be "painful")
http://www.google.com/translate?u=h...asosclinicos.htm&langpair=pt|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8

 

[DennisStrickland]

another goodie in this area is the eletric eel. reportably able to stun a horse if he fully discharges. about the best thing of this area is abundance of edibles, especially if you do'nt mind eating snakes. some of the people in southwest eat rattler to this day.

 

[Mistwalker]

Man! That thing looks like a fish from another planet!

 

[paleojoe]

Interesting, like a sturgeon/catfish with armor!


I wonder if the enzyme it uses to break down plant cellulose is similar to the enzyme termites use for wood breakdown?