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my ghost knife is about 5" and i want to know how big they get i have heard up to 12" is that close or not?
what are their growth rates like? that'd be awesome to see a bgk at 20 inches, the biggest i've seen is about 12 inches.
thefishofdoom
02-11-2006, 2:31 AM
miles hit it on the dot
The one I have is about 9 years old and was purchased at 3".. Lived its whole life in a 55g and has only eaten blood worms.
flagtailpc
02-13-2006, 10:58 PM
that's about right
flagtailpc
02-13-2006, 11:05 PM
my ghost knife is about 5" and i want to know how big they get i have heard up to 12" is that close or not?
i'm new at this, not fish, the internet. i'm trying to let you know, give or take
a 36" tank plus frozen and live food and they will get 12". i had one in the late
90's to early 2003 who went from about 3" to about 11"(within the first 2 years) and was with me for about 5 years
flagtailpc
02-13-2006, 11:15 PM
i'm new at this, not fish, the internet. i'm trying to let you know, give or take
a 36" tank plus frozen and live food and they will get 12". i had one in the late
90's to early 2003 who went from about 3" to about 11"(within the first 2 years) and was with me for about 5 years
brown or black, i should have asked, most brown ghosts do not get as large as
a black ghost
p.s. in their native south american habitat the indigenous native people
believed the black ghost knifefish to be the vessels that carried the spirits
of their departed relatives and as such revered them and left them alone
Plates
02-18-2006, 6:37 PM
Sometime they get 36" no not clown ghost
thanks for the history lesson...i really appricate people who can educate me on more than just the average question...with that information can i have more than one in my tank or are they too agressive. mine picked on a catfish and destroyed all of his fins , will they do that to another bgk?
starrfish71
02-19-2006, 8:34 PM
They do not like other knives, morymids, or ghosts in the tank- they hunt/navigate with electronic signals, sort of in the way sonar works (not quite)- anyway, too many signals makes them cranky-
cmersits
02-21-2006, 1:35 AM
I had my ghost knife for 1 and a half years, since I got him he grew about an inch, so they grow pretty slowly
monkey_fish
02-28-2006, 2:27 AM
i woulnd't suggest putting more then 1 adult BGK in a tank, i used to have to 12" BGK's in a 120g tank, they became very aggresive towards each other, had to seperate them...
Daniel Machado
03-04-2006, 10:45 AM
Miles,
Do you have any pics of your BIG BGK around? Got curious... :D
Best regards.
Daniel.