Anyone have a 100ft tank?

[justinl]

Tang Daddy, adult oarfish are blue water fish that hunt the open ocean. As far as I know, nothing is known about their juvenile life history, though I would speculate that they remain planktonic for their entire lives.

I wonder what the circumstances were for its capture. If found via the normal channels near shore, I suspect that this fish was so far from where it should be that it probably had little to no chance in the wild anyways.

[justinl]

A coworker of mine and I just checked a reference book and it turns out that this fish is NOT an oarfish (Regalecus russelii). The fish shown (Trachipterus trachypterus) is a ribbonfish, another very rare and unknown deepwater fish.