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[blitztidus]

Great sites, love them, I will probably make good use them myself
P.S. nice looking royal nmonks

 

[nmonks]

Yep, those Anableps are very cool. But perhaps even more extraordinary is that another fish has evolved a similar body design! It's called Rhinomugil corsula and is a freshwater mullet from India. They are traded, rarely, as "silver anableps" though I prefer to call them "false anableps". I append a picture below. Like real anableps, they swim with their eyes out of the water.

I kept one for a while, and it was a nervous but otherwise hardy fish. Tolerated fresh to marine conditions. I have since learned it (a) needed to be kept in a group, and (b) prefers freshwater. Anyway, there was only the one in the store, so getting a group wasn't an option. Did fine, until I discovered it dead with its head bitten off. Never knew if it died because it was in salt water or whether the trigger fish attacked it. Sigh.

Cheers,

Neale

 

[dwarfgourami]

Cheers, Neale.

Both melanogaster and nigrofasciata have featured on the Trimar stocking list lately; that's how I first came to think of them, and I've done quite a bit of googling since. I do think they sound like what I might be looking for. The goodeid is more of a thought for later, if ever I have a spare tank big enough.

I'm sure the limias would be fine with plants- and I do still love my Baensch! I got volume 1 as a belated Xmas present, totally unexpected, which made it extra nice, and I'm taking it everywhere with me.

 

[dwarfgourami]

I have never heard of Anableps anableps before and thought I might as well google it and I found these intresting looking critters.

I then looked up Anableps microlepis and tried to find a difference but that was also the only difference I could find. At least I learned something today , Those poor fishies eyes are used in research because of their divided cornea which sends two pictures to the cornea .

I saw anableps too in the aquarium in Portsmouth at the weekend. They had a lovely brackish tank with archer fish, scats and anableps, and a sort of paludarium bit at the top; and a mobile with flies for the archerfish to shoot down (they refused to perform for me). And then they had baby anableps in a grow-out tank.