Amzon Leaf Fish?

[DarkEntity]

what cleaning lol....these guys dont leave anything lol

 

[divisible by zero]

true, they do seem to be cleaner than most live eaters i've seen. i'm just glad i got more info before throwing the harless looking guys in with my tetras

 

[shroob]

What intrests me, is the arguement that 'its natural' to feed feeders. I find that totally wrong. It may be natural, in rivers, lakes etc. where the prey has millions upon millions of gallons to escape to (I know some ecosystems are smaller, but you get my point), normally the prey has a semi-good to good chance of escape (with most fish people feed feeders to eg. oscars or other cichlids, they are quite inept at catching the fish, often taking quite a few lunges to get it eventually getting trapped between glass and the surface).

There is nothing natural about taking one fish, trapping it while a bigger fish chases it around. And I wish people would admit this, its natural for fish to eat other fish..in nature. Not four glass walls.

I would be quite interested, to provide feeders for a fish...In a 'fair' environment. eg. Having a 12ftx4ftx4ft tank, and what I would do is stock it as much as possible with guppies, give them a couple of months to multiply and build up a fair population, then introduce one small predator eg. a leaf fish so that the leaf fish could eat the guppies, but the guppies would have a fair chance to get away and the guppies will breed enough to sustain enough food. The guppies would get their nutrients from the food I would feed, so that way all the feeders will be high quality. It would be like watching nature in your you're house. It would probably work in a smaller tank like 8'x2'x2', as guppies are quite prolific and a leaf fish is quite small.

 

[severum boy]

The LFS near me had some in a few months ago. They were pricy at £25 each (!), but they had been succesfully weaned onto frozen foods. Apparently they did it by feeding live bloodworm for a few weeks to get them used to them, so when a red thin thing fell into the water, they would eat it. Slowly frozen bloodworm was added with the live, until eventually they ate frozen bloodworm quite happly. Its a technique that may well work again.

 

[kribensis12]

Well, i have around 250+ baby convicts, and by the time i could afford the leaf fish, they would be around a half inch long!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didnt know we had leafish on our profiles!

 

[severum boy]

I woudent get them if you are going to feed convicts to them. They have very spiny fins which could well hurt a leaf-fish.