my archerfish is labeled toxotes jaculator and he has spots inbetween his stripes or spots on the top of his body is he jaculator or toxotes chatareus or is this renamed as jaculator and i was also wondering i thought toxotes jaculatrix looked simaler to toxotes microlepis is this true or false?
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i know toxotes jaculator is brackish but is toxotes microlepis or toxotes jaculatrix brackish too and will jaculator and jaculatrix get along?
When archerfish are brought into a store, they're most commonly labelled as Toxotes jaculatrix, which is the same species as T. jaculator. T. jaculator is just another for T. jaculatrix - they're one in the same.
In a lot of the cases, when a shipment of T. jaculatrix comes through, it may also contain several T. chatareus, which is often confused with T. jaculatrix. Both can live in the same water conditions (mildly to strongly brackish), and both can be kept together in the same tank.
All Archerfish species (family Toxotidae) pretty much have the same body shape and colouring, with some slight variation between the species. The patterning is the one way to tell for certain - T. microlepis looks a little like T. jaculatrix, although they have some banding towards the lower parts of their flanks and occasionally some spotting between the main banding - look that THIS PICTURE.
Toxotes jaculatrix is a brackish species.
Toxotes microlepis isn't often found in brackish water, preferring a freshwater environment.
In a lot of the cases, when a shipment of T. jaculatrix comes through, it may also contain several T. chatareus, which is often confused with T. jaculatrix. Both can live in the same water conditions (mildly to strongly brackish), and both can be kept together in the same tank.
All Archerfish species (family Toxotidae) pretty much have the same body shape and colouring, with some slight variation between the species. The patterning is the one way to tell for certain - T. microlepis looks a little like T. jaculatrix, although they have some banding towards the lower parts of their flanks and occasionally some spotting between the main banding - look that THIS PICTURE.
Toxotes jaculatrix is a brackish species.
Toxotes microlepis isn't often found in brackish water, preferring a freshwater environment.
