Toxotes jaculatrix - Archerfish Options

[Innes]

Common name: Archer fish
Scientific name: Toxotes jaculatrix
Synonyms: T. jaculator
Size: Up to 10" (25cm), but often smaller.
Origin: India, Southeast Asia to Australia
Tank setup: Larger aquarium, with plants or roots going down into or out from the water. Ideally, use a deep tank part-filled, with a tight-fitting lid, to provide a space above the water where insects can be introduced.
Compatibility: Fairly peaceful with similar sized fish.
Temperature: 25-30oC (77-86oF)
Water chemistry: Fairly hard, neutral to alkaline (pH 7.0-8.5). Brackish water.
Feeding: Requires live foods such as insects and worms
Sexing: Unknown


The Archerfish family (Toxotidae) contains 6 species:
*Toxotes blythi
*Toxotes chatareus (Common, 7-Spot, Largescale Archer)
*Toxotes jaculatrix (Banded Archer)
*Toxotes lorentzi (Primitive Archer)
*Toxotes microlepis (Smallscale Archer)
*Toxotes oliglepis (Western Archer)

The most common 2 being Taxotes chatareus and Toxotes jaculatrix which can be found in pet shops, but look so similar that they are often confused, The species covered here Toxotes jaculatrix is the more common of the two and is also smaller and less aggressive than its cousin Toxotes chatareus

The Archerfish gets its name from its ability to shoot a stream of water up to 1.5m out of the water at passing insects to knock them into the water so it can eat them, they do this with help from a small grove in the top of their mouth which they can press their tongue against and squeeze water through using their gills.
They can also leap out of the water to catch insects.
These fish are perfectly suited to looking at insects above, as they are very narrow and the top of them is flat so they can be against the waters surface without breaking it and there they can see the insects without being noticed.

In the home aquarium these fish require live foods like insects or even worms, they also require brackish water so their list of tankmates is limited to brackish species like monos, scats, puffers and other brackish fishes.

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[orm]

not to be an ass or anything but why is this on a cichlid forum?

[piranha45]

not to be an ass or anything but why is this on a cichlid forum?

having the profiles of random fish should theoretically get us more search results on, say, yahoo or kazaa when someone looks up those fish... so they they stumble into this site


but I bet that when someone looks up something other than 'cichlid madness', be it 'jack dempsey profile' or 'archerfish profile', we show up on page 10 or something of yahoo/google search results... so i reeally dont think that theory works

[Innes]

not to be an ass or anything but why is this on a cichlid forum?

because I posted it