Gold Ghost Knife Fish - (No Online Purchases)

Gold Ghost Knife Fish - (No Online Purchases)

Gold Ghost Knife Fish have an interesting swimming action and a mysterious fish often looking to hide in caves and a nocturnal prowler.

Amazon River basin, generally in fast flowing waters of rivers and streams with a sandy bottom.

It can reach 60 cm in the right conditions and can live more than 7 years given the right conditions.

Enjoys soft neutral to slightly acidic water:

• Temperature: 23oC - 28oC
• pH: 6.5- 7.5
• General Hardness less than 200ppm

• Ghost Knife Fish are carnivorous and eat insects, small crustaceans and fish in the wild.
• For this reason, they enjoy a mixture of live foods such as Daphnia, Brine Shrimp, meaty frozen foods, worms and feeder fish.
• They will also eat small pellets, peas, earthworms and frozen community fish foods.

It is a peaceful fish that needs peaceful community tank mates.

It is best not to keep them with small fish(<4cm) as they are predatory.

Ghost Knife Fish should not be kept with their own species as they will show aggressiveness to their own kind in a small tank.