Rare Finds

[soltari007]

Wonder where I can find quirky fish to put in my tanks? Currently I have a wasp fish in the same tank as a fire eel, as well as botia sithimunki in my community tank. Looking for more rare finds!

[soltari007]

Found a sole fish specimen today! Anyone knows how to look after it?

[BFG]

As a responsible fishkeeper, you should have find out their requirement BEFORE you bought them, not the other way round. Why not google it?

[michael lai]

It belongs to the Genus Achirus Lineatus. No special water preferences, eats worms, blood, tubifex. Don't really appreciate strong light and roughly grows to 13 cm in the wild, probably smaller domesticated. To add to BFG's advise, quirky or exotic fishes usually have very varing demands and almost impossible to develop a 1 for all environment for them. So read up a little, you might end up saving much more later on. For example you don't mix freshwater rays with Plecos. I can relate to quirky fish though but I try to provide individual tanks for them. Have fun.

[soltari007]

Thanks for replying! So far they're doing alright, think frozen bloodworms are a miracle food. But I never know when the parameters are off, and googling for sole fish doesn't get back much. But thanks a lot anyway, the info here is useful!!