Marble Freshwater Fish

In general hatchet fish do not have the reputation as being one of the hardier species to keep in the home aquarium but the marble hatchet fish seems to do better than the other hatchet fish.

Marble freshwater fish.

The marble hatchet fish is a truly unique looking fish that will always hang out at the top of your tank. These fish will appreciate some floating plants as their mouth is situated on top of their body and the marbled hatchetfish is used to eating at the surface. Anguillid eels spend their adult lives in freshwater or estuarine habitats then migrate to the ocean sometimes over long distances to reproduce. Aquarium setup and care.

The marbled hatchetfish carnegiella strigata is a small normally 3 5 cm 1 4 in in length freshwater ray finned fish native to south america hatchet shaped it presents a gold line extending from its eye to its caudal fin while the area below has a brown and cream colored marble like pattern hence its name. The leptocephali of a. For information on keeping freshwater fish see. The leaf shaped larvae common to all anguillids called a leptocephalus is especially suited to long distance migration.

Marmorata spend about 114 132 days drifting in the plankton before recruiting to river mouths.