more a potential zoo animal???

[Magnum Man37 152]

I did a little researching into these… they seem really cool, but seems best as a specimen tank fish, and with them getting to 30 inches you’d need a really large specimen tank… they eat mostly worms, when small, at 30 inches who knows…

Freshwater Dolphin Fish (Mormyrus cf. longirostris)

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[OMG_FL]

There's few things I remember about them (wild specimens )
They do well in sandy or preferably muddy substrate with lots of driftwood why ? the nose they get their nose from is a specialized organ/scanner that pulses electric currents to scan their environment for prey or predators similar to electric eels so they can basically do just fine in 0 visibility water or in total darkness
Some species are solitary and some stay in loose groups
Really shy and slow moving

 

[GaryE]

They're "dolphins" like red tailed sharks are sharks - there's a vague resemblance used for marketing. It's just a larger Mormyrid species, but not one for one of your communities.

We caught so many relatives of these in Gabon. In some darker, shaded places they were everywhere. I was told they make excellent soup broth. Whether they're dolphins, baby whales or elephant noses, they're a good group of specialist fish.

 

[emeraldking17 68]

I would put them in a small school in a large tank with dimmed blue light. I've seen them like that at a zoo once. And with such dimmed blue light, it was a real eyecatcher overthere. It was a mangrove tank with those roots in the water which gave it an extra nice look for the dimmed light was moving between those roots.

 

[gimme302]

When I saw the title I thought you were talking about my ex-wife.
Unlike dolphins she could never be trained.