Four Eyed Fish

COMMON NAME: Four-eyed Fish

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Anableps anableps

DESIGNATION: Tropical.

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Northern SouthAmerica and southern Mexico.

SIZE: Up to around 30 cm (12 in).

WATER PREFERENCES: Prefers hard alkalinewater containing one teaspoonful of salt per gallon +4.5 litres) and maintained at thewarmer end of the tropical range, around27' C lc. 80.5°F).

DIET: Almost exclusively carnivorous livefoods, deep-frozen and freeze-dried foods,meat and fish.

BREEDING: Anableps anableps is a difficultspecies to keep and breed. Very few, butverylarge. fry (c. 5 cm/2 in), are produced. Maleshave a tubular gonopodium in which some ofthe fry rays are twisted around each other.

Many also possess the usual ability of being able :-mg the gonopodium either to the right or to the left. Sight-handed.(dextral, males can mate only with left-handed' sinistral females and eke versa.Although the embryo` develop inside the egg sacs follicles, as in most Poeciliinae, i.e.Guppies and related species. theynevertheless obtain nourishment from thefemale. This is what allows them to attaintheir massive size at birth.

DESCRIPTION: Despite thecommon name, Anableps has just two eyes,like all other fish. However, each eye isdivided by a pigmented flap of the iris into anupper and lower half. The alignment of theeye lens, as well as its shape, makes itpossible for each eye to see clearly both aboveand below the water surface simultaneously.

Four Eyed Fish information

• The foueyed fish whose scientic name is Anableps anableps id essentially a carnivour fish.
• The fish should be fed with frozen dried food and very small live inscets. The fosh also prefers to eat frozen food items like the brine shrimp, and the bloo0d worms. In spite on being fed by the above mentioned food the fish would rather move down at the bottom of the tank and devour food from there.
• To keep you the water of the aquarium clean and uncontaminated the left over food that would accumulate at the base of the aquarium should be cleaned properly as the left over food might become foul and make the water inappropriate to live in. The water should also be changed on a regular basis.
• The fish would adapt well with the tank which is completely filled with water but ideally the fish tank should be half filled.
• The fish needs ample of space to swim around and are good jumpers. So, you are advised to keep the fish tank well covered.
• The natural habitat of the fish is the mouth of the rivers so you are required to maintain the type of water which is brackish in nature. In fact you are recommended to learn how to prepare the ideal tank water for the fish to stay in.