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Thread: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

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    Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

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    Re: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    Use to keep 3 pcs few years back.
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    Re: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    Able to comm them? How big can they grow? Wat happened to your aba now?
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    Re: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species...hus-niloticus/

    Based on this fairly accurate link, the species will exceed 2 ft in length easily so it's not recommended for a typical fishkeeper here even with a 6 foot tank available. If you want to keep a knife fish, perhaps try Eigenmannia virescens or Steatogenys elegans if available. Both can be kept in a small group.
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    Back to Killies... slowly.

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    Re: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    comm till 12" then separate them as the aggression appear,sold back to LFS at 18".I really like the way they "vacuum" in the feeder,power!
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    Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    Very cute fish. Currently I have one at home. Occasionally his smaller tank mates goes missing
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    Re: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    This is A oddball !!!

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    Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    Barney shld get one. Highly intelligent, always swim up & gasp for breath, tunneling between clay tubes
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    Re: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    I will keep it again if there is chance to get a big one.
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    Re: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    They grow fast
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    Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    Oh boy, it starts to attack his 4" silver dollar tankmates & 1 actually died
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    Re: Anyone keeping Aba Aba Knife Fish?

    Not surprising. Time to remove it before more casualty

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