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Ranil - 2010-05-20
I have silver dollar�s 600 fish in 8x8 tank and there are just only 40 days. I m breeding and selling to our local customers and Export. They are well healthy and good quality. I like them because they are peaceful and good for heart patients and the body colour is nice to look.

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Dilani Rabot - 2010-11-02
How much are they? And what size?

Ron - 2009-12-20
hi i also have a 55 gallon. my fish include,

20 neon tetra's, 4 kuhli loaches, Black ghost knife, 1 peppered corydoras,
1 albino corydoras, 1 silver dollar.

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neon - 2010-05-04
What filtration?
Courtney Campbell - 2010-10-17
Get a couple more silver dollars. They don't like being by themselves.

tom - 2010-09-23
We have 8 serpae tetra in our 100 gal tank along with 10 cardinal tetra and 7 pristella tetra they all seem to shoal together in the tank without a problem love their brilliant red color.

monsieur - 2010-09-10
Lemon tetras and red eye tetras are great hardy tetras for beginners, they look some what alike.

Mike - 2010-02-27
Beautiful fish. I have 7 in a 30 gallon in addition to some other fish.

Someone here said they reach a max of 5 inches, but everything everywhere I've read said that males get to 3.5 inches, and females stay closer to 2.5 inches.

they seem to get along well in a community tank.

Plus, you have the joy of having very rare tetras which 90% of other people don't have.

I take pride in having rare fish. And the Congo's fit right in with my African Butterfly, Leopard Ctenopoma, Female Krib, and cories.

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cheryl - 2010-09-04
I have some of these & am going to expand the school as a larger fish in the tank died. They are beautiful & mine are not timid at all. I have the ones that look more olive green/electric blue & I am having a hard time finding more of those. Mine are getting along nicely with African Red Eyed Tetras (another less known, awesome fish! - not to be confused with Red Eye Tetras) a Giant Danio that has a blue-green sheen to him, a large killifish (that I believe was mislabeled as a gardneri) & a couple of peppered cory cats. I have a blue-green iridescent thing going on somehow... I have a Leopard Ctenopoma that i would be afraid to put with these because he is (& so has every other one I've owned) a little on the aggressive side. They like to chase other fish, especially when the lights are out. They are one of my favorite fish.

dont trip - 2009-07-16
My auntie has 2 pacus, 1 is about 1ft and sum inches and da other is about 5 or 6 inches. The bigger pacu has its on tank because it killed the oscar and the other fishes. The small one is in a tank with a black shark, both tanks are about 75 to a hundred gallons, between those two numbers. The big pacu will not allow any other fish to be in his tank and if you were to put another fish in there it wuld kill it, even if it was its own kind.

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Jeff Rapps - 2010-08-31
Is your auntie's gentle giant still in the 75g tank? Poor poor fellow :(

These fish should be sold to the general hobbyist.

Phil - 2010-08-26
These fish are the most beautiful fish in my tank. They stay in a school and no one tries to attack them they are peaceful with cherry barbs, moonlight gouramis, and red blue gouramis.

steve - 2010-08-24
I have 6 rummy nose tetras in my community tank. They are amazing to watch and are my favorite tropical fish by far! They proved to be easier to care for than I thought! They swim with almost every fish in the tank, and they bring great color to any aquarium!

Anonymous - 2010-03-05
Hatchetfish's scientific name is argyropecus gigas.

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Editor's Note - 2010-03-06
Thanks for the information. There is fish with the common name 'hatchetfish' and a scientific name of 'Argyropecus gigas but it is not the fish listed here. To see the difference, you can see a picture of it at fishbase.org: Hatchet Fish
Editor's Note - 2010-03-06
There are a number of different hatchetfish. Different species can be found in both freshwater and in the oceans. Argyropelecus gigas is known as the Greater Silver Hatchetfish. It is a marine hatchetfish of the genus Argyropelecus. It is also called the Giant Hatchetfish or Large Hatchetfish. It was described by Norman in 1930. The one seen here is a freshwater hatchetfish known as the Common Hatchetfish or Silver Hatchet Fish, Gasteropelecus sternicla.
Anonymous - 2010-03-26
Why are they called that?
Anonymous - 2010-08-09
That's the binomial name for the marine species. The South American freshwater species are different altogether.

Kyle - 2010-08-07
I have ten of these guys in my 29 gallon cichlid growout.. it USED to be a wonderfully planted aquarium when I had 3 but as soon as I upgraded the group they tore every single plant to shreds including anubias and java moss! They are very aggressive eaters so do not keep with finicky feeding community fish. All around though they are very entertaining and energetic tetras with lots of personality! I highly suggest you try a group out!

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