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Silver Hatchetfish
DietMouth of Silver Hatchetfish is situated up on top of its body. It is used to consume surface foods like small vinegar flies and mosquito larvae. You can feed your Silver Hatchetfish with all types of live, fresh and flake foods throughout the time when it is on the water surface. Feed it with protein rich food everyday like fruit flies, brine shrimp (either live or frozen) and blood worms. This helps in maintaining a good balance. BreedingSilver Hatchetfish is an egg layer but there are no reports about successful breeding of this fish in captivity. Physical DescriptionBody of Silver Hatchetfish is convex. Its ventral fins are small ones and its back is pretty straight. Its pectoral fins are wing-like and are transparent. They often measure up to half of the overall body size of this fish. Color of the body is from silver to white and the back is olive brown. Its body colors can change from iridescent green to iridescent blue depending on the angle of light. Its mouth is small and upturned. It grows as long as 3.5 inches or 9 cms. Tank Set UpSize of Tank of Silver Hatchetfish should be 28 inches or 71 cms. The tank should have the capacity to hold 75 liters or 20 gallons of water. The general hatchetfish set up is needed by this fish but it needs a good air supply as well. It needs soft and peaty water. Coming to the water chemistry preferred by this fish, the temperature should be 23 degree C to 30 degree C or 73 degree F to 86 degree F, water hardness should be 4-15 dH and pH 5.8-7.5 (6.7). Social BehaviorSilver Hatchetfish is a peaceful fish and makes a good community fish. You can comfortably keep this fish with fish of lower swimming levels. It is delighted in the group of 6 or more. When kept in a large group, it is less stressed thus, there are less chances of catching a disease by this fish. Silver Hatchetfish is mainly a surface swimmer and feeder. It is wise to keep it in shoals. This fish is a very hardy one. As far as the sexual differences are concerned, they are very difficult to be told but if you see from above, the female is plumper. It is interesting to note that it leaps from the water and fly through the air and keeps flapping its big pectoral fins to catch flying insects. It is usually acknowledged for being the only ‘flying fish’ as it is the only fish that moves its pectoral fins to have assistance in its flight. |
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In the world of science Silver Hatchetfish is renowned as Gasteropelecus Levis or Gasteropelecus sternicla. Commonly it is also known as Common Hatchetfish and River Hatchetfish other than the name of Silver Hatchetfish. Silver Hatchetfish is found in Brazil, South America and the southern tributaries of the Amazon. In Guyana and Surinam it is found in minor streams with plethora of vegetation. In the following lines, you will find a great deal of information regarding Silver Hatchetfish. Help yourself by going through it thoroughly.