FW archerfish?
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Admittedly the 2 most commonly imported species both do better in at least slightly brackish water and one of them has eggs that are so far only recorded as hatching in strongly brackish.
a local fish store by me has a tank full in full saltwater... not sure how good that is, there also with a bunch of baby scats (under 1")
Both of the more commonly imported archers are reported as tolerating full salt, at least for a while, in the wild the T. chatareus is often found in very strongly brackish and even rarely in full salt, though that was probably only in passing.
landmineyouth;645033; said:
I think the Georgia Aquarium has a few in full salt as well. Mine is in an SG of 1.010 and doing great. He loves his krill and I can't see myself increasing the SG any higher. Everything is doing great in the tank and the archer has lots of personality. He did come from a LFS that had him in fresh so they can do fresh for a bit, but I would put him in with the Moray!
What species you got? I love the guys but the two species I want are the kimberleyensis (small,FW) and the never imported and apparently rare, the T. blythii, which I only heard about today, apparently it is a BW species.
Jacs are the most common import, they tolerate FW but do better in light to fairly strong brackish, produce floating eggs which only hatch in strongly brackish to full salt water. the young then head upstream, becomong more freshwater tolerant as they age, most are caught in either light or intermittantly brackish waters.
Yeah, that new one from Myanmar (old Burma) is amazing. Even the listing in fishbase was not there a couple months ago.
Yeah, that new one from Myanmar (old Burma) is amazing. Even the listing in fishbase was not there a couple months ago.
We had a big archer as a pet at an LFS that I used to work at (or maybe no one bought it in the 4 years that I shopped / worked there)...
It ate meal worms, crickets and pellets and was at least 8". It lived in a 125g with severums and big pim cats.
No salt in the water.
It spit water at people, which was kind of cool.
It ate meal worms, crickets and pellets and was at least 8". It lived in a 125g with severums and big pim cats.
No salt in the water.
It spit water at people, which was kind of cool.
