Archer fish with polys?
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I've had this same idea for my pond. The problem is locally if I find clouded archers they are $45+ each. That's a bit much to chance with my polys that could probably eat them. I'd have to grow them out in another tank and currently don't have the room. From the research I've seen there are two others that can survive in fresh water. One is true fresh the other is also found in brackish conditions and from what I've read will "survive" in fresh. Two problems with that 1 I don't like to have fish just "survive" I want them to thrive. 2 they are very hard to distinguish from each other especially juveniles. The difficulty in telling them apart goes for most archers. So if you don't full trust the lfs in question you really are going to have a hard time. I have also read about some aggression issues with most all archers other then clouded. Size issues come into play as well. I still hold out hope that one day I will find a group of clouded archers and have the money and space to do something about it.
So I happened to be at big als today, I snapped a pic of their archer tank. I absolutely love it! Just wanted to share it with you 
Agree, I wondered about bio load as well with a tank like this
Same footprint so not really worried about space but half as much water to dilute ammonia and stuff
I've had 10 inch blythii's but they were imported at that size. 7 inch is probably the correct tank raised max size
Rays and Datnoids... let me find the old video for you...
