White dragon knifefish?
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Aha these guys are awesome (compsaraia samueli) aka Pelican Knifefish and definitely a creature of the amazon. They get up to around 18" and have an enormous appetite. I have a pair now that just bred (Yay!) need to be in a dark tank with a lot of wood. Sand is also a must. Never house 2 males or they will fight to the death.
Very cool fish, but the males tend to be really expensive and hard to find.
Also pics or it didn't happen, mattmez
Also pics or it didn't happen, mattmez
Are they blind? They don't seem to have very useful eyes.
About how big does their tank have to be?
Do the males and females have little snippy-face territorial spats as well, or is that just the males? Because that spat in the video looks hilarious, and it'd be cool to have that happen every now and then if it's just normal non-stressed behavior, but I absolutely don't want to have two males snipping each other to death just to watch them.
Is that a male and female up there, or is the beak difference more pronounced?
And does anyone know what's in the background there?
About how big does their tank have to be?
Do the males and females have little snippy-face territorial spats as well, or is that just the males? Because that spat in the video looks hilarious, and it'd be cool to have that happen every now and then if it's just normal non-stressed behavior, but I absolutely don't want to have two males snipping each other to death just to watch them.
Is that a male and female up there, or is the beak difference more pronounced?
And does anyone know what's in the background there?
Fish in the back is an Acestrorhynchus..
They're completely blind, but they live in deep, muddy water with no light, so they sport a lot of similarities to cave-adapted species. Orthosternarchus tamandua is an even more extreme example. The females have much shorter snouts...here's an old video I found showing some of both sexes together and you can see the males are still pretty feisty..
They're completely blind, but they live in deep, muddy water with no light, so they sport a lot of similarities to cave-adapted species. Orthosternarchus tamandua is an even more extreme example. The females have much shorter snouts...here's an old video I found showing some of both sexes together and you can see the males are still pretty feisty..
Very feisty, and apparently very confused by the concept of glass. Doesn't look like they're capable of causing too much damage to each other, but those beaks open impressively wide.
Do they require live fish as food, or can they be taught to locate frozen?
Do they require live fish as food, or can they be taught to locate frozen?
Oops, meant to say they're "not completely blind." I know they will take frozen bloodworms, but I've heard the males do better on small feeders. Perhaps
mattmez
has more info on that.
mattmez
has more info on that.