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there are many species:
Sternarchorhynchus britskii Campos-da-Paz, 2000.
Sternarchorhynchus curumim de Santana & Crampton, 2006.[8]
Sternarchorhynchus curvirostris (Boulenger, 1887).
Sternarchorhynchus mesensis Campos-da-Paz, 2000.
Sternarchorhynchus mormyrus (Steindachner, 1868).
Sternarchorhynchus oxyrhynchus (Müller & Troschel, 1849).
Sternarchorhynchus roseni Mago-Leccia, 1994.

Most common in the trade (as if any are common) I think would be oxyythynchus. See if this guy looks familiar:

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29642&highlight=elephant+nose
 
I'm not god, just a guy with too much time on his hands.

But I was wondering what the lab does with the fish after the study is complete? Perchance they sell them???
 
aranos;1139282;1139282 said:
I'm not god, just a guy with too much time on his hands.

But I was wondering what the lab does with the fish after the study is complete? Perchance they sell them???
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You mean complete complete or just complete with that fish?

if its complete complete then idk. they are just about to get another grant so i don't think this has an end for a while. I have an idea what would happen at the very end but i will keep that to myself

if you mean done with the certain fish... I know exactly what happens to them...
 
aranos;1139334;1139334 said:
pretty please?? do tell
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They need to study their brains. Therefore, they are killed (obviously) and dissected.

I do not know how often this happens though. I do know that the rarer the species (aka how much it costs and how hard it gets) the less likely it will be killed/studied. For example, The brown ghosts are recycled quite often. There are only 2 huge ones and the rest are small. However the Portaguese (maybe, cant remember the name) have been there for a while and there are only 2 of them and they are actually kept in a decent sized tank. This is because they are very hard for the lab to get (they did just get 5 babies though I saw yesterday) so they need to keep them alive and healthy.

not the best news for fish hobbiests, but thats science for ya.
 
btw man...

first off sorry to hijack your thread

but i think we do have those trumpet knives... i just thought they were brown knives. i didnt take a good look at them at all... i saw they were brown and moved on. plus they arent labeled on the tank, which usually means its just a brown a lot of times. but these have the exact same pattern on the bottom and their mouths are definitely trumpet like.

we have 2-3 and they are 20 inches at least.
 
very cool ;)
 
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