COMMON NAME:
Black Ghost Knife Fish

LATIN NAME:
Apteronotus albifrons

pH:
6.6

WATER TEMP:
74-80 deg. F.

AVG. MAX. SIZE:
24"/48cm.

BREEDING:
Egg-layers

FEEDING:
Live/Frozen worms

NOTE:
These are really cool!, but take a lot of care.

LIGHTING:
Dark as possible.

TEMPERAMENT:
Peaceful, very good community fish. Is territorial. Emits an electric shock to any fish that care to try and nibble on its tail.

COMMENTS:
A scaleless electric fish. Can be trained to lay in its owners hand and be fed. Needs a cave and vegetation in which to hide. I do not recommend the all clear plastic tubes as these do not provide them any protection from the light. Rockeries are best.

Can grow extremely large in the right enviroment. Be aware there are other strains of Knife fish that can get very nasty and end up devouring almost every other fish in the tank! i.e Clown Knives and Brown Knife Fish.


BLACK GHOST KNIFE FISH!

CAUTION!!! Do not keep more than one of these in a tank at any one time, also do not mix with other electric fishes such as Elephant Noses. Their ability to emit a small electrical field aids these nearly blind fish in hunting for food, but can get confused if another electric generating fish is in the same tank. Also since this is a scaleless fish standard fish treatments for illness may not work and cause death of the Knife fish.