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Will swallow any fish that fits in its mouth; keep alone or with bigger fish.
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Will swallow any fish that fits in its mouth; keep alone or with bigger fish.
Live fish and shrimp, then frozen fish and prawns.
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Egg-guarder · Hard
Egg-layer that attaches eggs to plants.
A pair in a large planted tank.
200 L planted tank with floating plants and cave.
Warm water and live food.
Up to about 300 eggs.
Baby brine shrimp then small live fish.
An Asian leaffish of still and sluggish waters, ditches and flooded fields from Pakistan to Thailand and Malaysia. It hunts aquatic insects and small fish, and is also a highly prized food fish.
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton described this leaffish in 1822. It is a patient ambush predator that drifts like a leaf before snapping up small fish.
First described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822.
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Synonyms: Coius nandus Hamilton 1822, Nandus marmoratus Valenciennes 1831, Bedula hamiltonii Gray 1835. No Seriously Fish profile exists.
Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Nandus nandus · FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryLegacy has no family. Order Anabantiformes; not related to the South American/African Polycentridae.
Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Nandus nandus · FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryTL (total length), FishBase (Talwar & Jhingran 1991). Matures at about 9.1 cm.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryOnly FishBase (aquarium ref. 1672) gives a range; legacy upper 28 not supported.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryLegacy upper 8.0 not supported.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryLegacy has no hardness.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryFishBase gives only a modelled generation time, not a lifespan.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryPredatory; no source rates aggression.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryNo source names a swimming level.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryLegacy has no range field.
Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Nandus nandus · FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryLegacy "hundreds of eggs" agrees.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summaryLegacy "swamps and rice fields" matches inundated fields and ditches.
FishBase: Nandus nandus summary · Wikipedia: Nandus nandus (cites IUCN)