White dragon knifefish?

[mattmez]

I don't feed feeders because of parasites. I do feed them ghost shrimp and they love em!

 

[Betta132]

Do they take frozen foods readily, or is it a challenge to convert them? And do the males have trouble picking up small food with those long snippybeaks?

 

[mattmez]

Yes they do. They like blood worms. They suck food up so beaks aren't really a problem.

 

[Nj76]

So what's up with these little weirdos? Does anyone know much about how to care for them?

Never see them for sale where i come from. Cool knives

 

[Lady Sphinx]

Oh wow I'm in awe. I love Black ghost knife fish but these oh wow. Can you keep only one or do you need a pair.

 

[blackbullhead]

Oh wow I'm in awe. I love Black ghost knife fish but these oh wow. Can you keep only one or do you need a pair.

They tend to school in the wild, but I don't know of anyone that's had great success keeping them. Very rare and expensive fish in the aquarium trade.

 

[jonah h2o]

I wish I could find a rare species of knife fish like that I guess they're just hard to find in San Diego

 

[Hendre]

I wish I could find a rare species of knife fish like that I guess they're just hard to find in San Diego

Specialist fish need specialist importers, i doubt these would be found in all but the best brick and mortar stores. You need to find suppliers of rare South American fish

 

[blackbullhead]

I was just in Iquitos Peru, a major tropical fish export hub and there were a lot of these being prepped to ship. This species seems to be especially popular in Japan, so that may be why so few show up in the US.

 

[kno4te]

There was one being sold on aquabid several days ago.