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i was jsut at my petco, and they had some FW archers that they got for another guy, so i took 1 of 3 left overs. 6.50 didn't seem to bad, even though i was going to get so boesemans, and celbise rainbows. he is around 1.5 inches and looks like in good condition. the staff didn't know much about it, b/c it was a special order, so even though she is very knowledgable she didn't know much about it.

my question is it agressive, it is full FW now, so i dont think it needs brakish, wil it eat reg fish foods, or frozen worms, or live bugs like in the wild.

Archerfish are a Brakish fish as are the celebes rainbows. I know the celebes rainbows can be adapted to full freshwater though. I am not sure about the archerfish though. I am sure that the archer fish will eat pretty much anything. Are archers the ones that spit water out of the water to wash bugs from leaves into the water to eat?

yes they are. he went after the color bites. so he must be use to feeding off of pellets. i will try so blood worms later and see if he likes those. another question, how do i add plants (like land plants) to the tank, so he can shoot water and drop bugs? is this possible.

It's definitely possible to add land plants. All you have to do is provide land. Paludariums can be pretty ambitious once you want to add land plants; it means there has to be soil and a means to separate the land portion away from the water portion. Usually paludariums are half filled aquariums with a land portion inside the aquarium, but there are some people that manage by building something outside of the aquarium and filling the aquarium all the way up. If you want to do it all inside the fish tank, basically the idea is that you take a squeaky clean fish tank and partition some of it off with a piece of glass that's siliconed in place. Fill one side with the necessary gravel for drainage and soil on top of that, and the other side with water.

Archers are specifically a problem when they get larger as a good amount of water is required, and so a rather large tank is necessary for when they get older, especially if you're only filling it halfway up and taking out even more of the water for land.

Do a search on paludariums on Google and you'll get idea for what they look like.

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ok will do. i have some more problems with him, i added him to one tank me got beat up there, so i quickly took him out and moved him, and same, so i moved him again. now he is in a good community tank, but he swims into the glass. i am thinking about getting brackish archers and making taht tank.

update: he has settled in nicley.

Last edited by bettachris at 04-Aug-2005 15:53