Halfbeaks.

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Fire Eel
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how many species of halfbeaks are there? and what are they related to? they kinda remind me of needle fish. i had no clue what forum to post this in so i went with my gut and i suppose it COULD be ancient, dispite its size.

i recently bought one, its in a bucket right now to grow out so i cant really take a good pic of it. but it has tiny red eyes and a bright white body. its no more than an inch and like 1mm wide, yet i dropped a pinhead in the bucket and it snatched it up like a true monster! i was worried it would choke because it looked like a snake tryna eat an ostrich egg but it consumed it!

looks like a little pencil shaving in the water. lol

actually im hooked on these long barracuda-like predators and now i wanna find some. how many different species of halfbeaks are there? or what about needle fish looking fish? since they and gars are ILLEGAL in hawaii...

any other cool long predator fish legal here?
 
I believe they are some type of Live Bearer. So I'll move it to General to see if anyone knows for sure.;)
 
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