As in black ghost knife perhaps? because I was actually thinking maybe doing one of those. The shop where I got the poly usually has them at about 5-6" range for a decent price.
There are several knifefish out there that are great, I'd stay away from Clown knives because of size but I love the BGK and Afer I have although to be fair the Afer has earned his name Jacka$$. The banded aka Carpo knife had was a complete jerk though
I am still new to polys myself but I feed Hikari sinking carnivore pellets, omega one shrimp pellets, and NLS 3mm sinking pellets. I will probably end up going with one type in the future (most likely NLS), but I'm still experimenting. My polys will only eat freeze dried shrimp if i hold it underwater with tweezers, maybe because I've only fed them with sinking food since day one..
I tried slivers of tilapia recently and wow they attacked it harder than they've ever attacked any pellet. In terms of how much.. I'm still figuring that out too. I try to feed just enough to see a slight bulge in their stomachs but also skip at least one day a week (it's hard though because it's so fun watching them eat!). I'll probably reduce the frequencies of feeding as their growth slows with age.
Yeah watch them and once they start getting "beer guts" start spacing out feeding.