Black Ghost Knife Fish For Sale
These fish are mainly nocturnal animals and they use electrolocation to navigate dark waters.
Black ghost knife fish for sale. But the neons usually disappear at night and are most likely eaten by the ghost black knifefish. In one of the pictures it s hiding in a plant in one of our aquariums when one of us snapped its picture. Knife fish have long tapered body that is laterally compressed.
Although slow growing they can reach the impressive size of 14 or more and tend to prey on smaller fish as they grow. It is an excellent weirdo fish with ebony all over its body and a white band on its tail and nose. 6 royal clown knife.
Apteronotus albifrons is one of the most unusual freshwater fishes that you may encounter in amateur aquariums. It will even be hand sustained. Black ghost knife fish are carnivorous and eat insects small crustaceans and fish in the wild.
Click on each picture to see a bigger picture. Black ghost knife 3 sale. This fish has quite a long lifespan and if they are properly cared for they will be your companion for 15 years.
Black ghost knifefish lat. So it s best to keep just one in an aquarium. Will the fish you get look like the fish in our pictures.
It is readily available online or in pet shops for around 7. Knifefish may seem to be ok with small fish like neon tetras during the day. The common name of this fish the ghost knifefish comes from these stories.
During the day time it is rather timid and quite often stays in a shelter on a tank bottom. Gold lined knife sternopygus macrurus sale. A nocturnal and generally shy fish like all knifefish they use a weak electrical discharge to sense their surroundings and find food.
199 99 175 00 add to cart. For this reason they enjoy a mixture of live foods such as daphnia brine shrimp meaty frozen foods worms and feeder fish. Black ghost knife 4 27 99 add to cart.
They will also eat small pellets peas earthworms and frozen community fish foods. Requiring excellent filtration the black ghost knife fish like rocky dark and root filled environments. Black ghost knifefish usually do not get along with each other even in a very large aquarium.
As a carnivorous fish. Their ancestors lived in a vast. The fish has nocturnal habits.
19 99 16 99 add to cart. The black ghost knife fish is normally of a timid nature however it can sometimes become aggressive with fish of a similar size and can even become exceptionally tame once properly accustomed to its surroundings. It tends to be a bashful fish while adapting yet will inevitably be all around amicable.
Pekin knife female pelican knife 89 00 add to cart showing all 4 results. These are fabulous looking fish mostly dark almost black with white markings and the unique knifefish shape and unique fin motion when swimming. The black ghost knifefish is an adored fish among specialists.
A long time aquarium favorite the black ghost knifefish is a distinctive and unusual fish originating from the amazon and its tributaries. In the pictures just above is a wonderful premium quality black ghost knifefish.
