Ctenopoma acutirostre is the scientific name. Also called leopard gourami, or spotted bush fish. I was curious is one will get along with an archer fish?
Has anyone kept spotted climbing perch?
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I can't say how they will get along with the Archer fish, But I have 2 of them in a tank with some African Knife Fish and they are doing great.
They pretty much staked out a spot under a driftwood stump as their base and they "patrol" the middle of the tank. They love feeder guppies and blood worms but seem to not bother with brine shrimp. They will act like a floating leaf and then "drift" themselves to a group of guppies near the surface then gulp down a guppy.
They are not overly aggressive but they seem to hold their own against the larger knife fish without a problem.
Hope this helps.
They pretty much staked out a spot under a driftwood stump as their base and they "patrol" the middle of the tank. They love feeder guppies and blood worms but seem to not bother with brine shrimp. They will act like a floating leaf and then "drift" themselves to a group of guppies near the surface then gulp down a guppy.
They are not overly aggressive but they seem to hold their own against the larger knife fish without a problem.
Hope this helps.
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Do your leopard bushfish eat only live food or do they eat dried food as well? I really don't want to get into breeding feeders, or possibly buying diseased feeders, but if they would eat dry food and frozen foods I might pick some up.
Eric
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I have one and he will eat ANYTHING. Flakes, pellets, frozen and freeze dried blood worms, tubifex, everything I put in the tank, he goes after.
Well, I just bought some last night. It seems like they will eat frozen foods pretty easily, but they spit out flake food when they try it. My challenge is going to be getting enough food TO them, since the other fish (my tiger barbs) attack food so quickly!
I picked up two of them tonight. There were 4-6 in the tank at the LFS, but these two I'd been watching for over 5 months - they are obviously eating well and have doubled in size since I first saw them at the LFS...also, these two always tend to hang out together with one being slightly larger than the other - so I'm thinking they may well be a male and a female.
Neat fish - already exploring the tank.
Eric
Neat fish - already exploring the tank.
Eric
I feed mine guppies occassionally, More like a treat. You do not need to feed them live all the time.
Wow - can these guys hide or what? Feeding bloodworms yesterday, I never saw the two of them out at the same time - one would swim out, eat, and go hide. They look similar enough that unless they're side by side so I can see one is slightly bigger, I can't tell them apart. So...I became paranoid and was sure that one was dead and I was only seeing one fish eating. I picked up ever rock, moved the leaves of the planted plants, picked up the driftwood...and promptly could find either fish.
Then, I saw that one was laying flat and slightly curved to hold onto a piece of driftwood that I had recently picked up (but not pulled out of the tank - just picked up underwater to look over). Finding the other major driftwood hunk in the tank, I found the second one doing the same.
I almost wonder if they were tag team eating. Is such a thing possible? It's too bad that I traumatized them buy tearing up the tank because there usually was one out and about in the front of the tank most of yesterday. Now, I wonder if they were alternating visits to the front of the tank to see if I was going to feed.
Then again - maybe only one of them was brave enough to come out and eat after only 48 hours in the tank.
Eric
Then, I saw that one was laying flat and slightly curved to hold onto a piece of driftwood that I had recently picked up (but not pulled out of the tank - just picked up underwater to look over). Finding the other major driftwood hunk in the tank, I found the second one doing the same.
I almost wonder if they were tag team eating. Is such a thing possible? It's too bad that I traumatized them buy tearing up the tank because there usually was one out and about in the front of the tank most of yesterday. Now, I wonder if they were alternating visits to the front of the tank to see if I was going to feed.
Then again - maybe only one of them was brave enough to come out and eat after only 48 hours in the tank.
Eric