African Leaf Fish
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these are both names that i have seen these fish being sold under. i have 2 of them and have had them for about 1.5 yrs. they are awesome to watch, an ambush predator who you don't want to keep with anything it can fit into its mouth.
They are fairly small (around 4-6") and not real active so one can be kept in smaller containers like a 5G globe or jar, they like large leaf plants like cryptos and often sort of hang in the water in the shelter of the leves. Then when you drop in a molly or shrimp they will slowlt drift that way the suddenly suck in the prey. Pretty cool mini-monster for a desktop. They are one of the few medium sized fish I would crowd like that. They do well in neutral ph water, around 8 Dh, and low 80s F. I used to have a huge brandy snifter (about 5g) that contained a ugf and a potted cryptocorme and some elodea, with a pair of C. oxyrhychum in it that was given to me, no problems, The desk lamp kept it at about 80 degrees.
p45, I think you should raise your temp a bit, you don't seem to have much luck feeding your fish 
african spotted bush fish ? one of the centopoma species ? the one miles posted ? all the same fish BTW
if so they can get some what big they often get 7'' and can reach around 8'' mine wasn't to active upon introduction but with in a week got pretty active and now with more time to know me it responds to me by comeing to the front of the tnak much like a cichlid mine is some what aggressive and had to be moved out of a community tank it had no problem chaseing other fish and now lives with few cichlids and catfish and like i said before they are pretty active so i would recomend a 30 long or 40 gallon tank for a while and a 55 would be good for an adult
For food mine eats all sorts of stuff and alot of it the key is to feed them prepared foods when young they are eazy to get off live but like alot of fish with age it can become difficult
if so they can get some what big they often get 7'' and can reach around 8'' mine wasn't to active upon introduction but with in a week got pretty active and now with more time to know me it responds to me by comeing to the front of the tnak much like a cichlid mine is some what aggressive and had to be moved out of a community tank it had no problem chaseing other fish and now lives with few cichlids and catfish and like i said before they are pretty active so i would recomend a 30 long or 40 gallon tank for a while and a 55 would be good for an adult
For food mine eats all sorts of stuff and alot of it the key is to feed them prepared foods when young they are eazy to get off live but like alot of fish with age it can become difficult
hmm yeah live can cost more than frozen =S but itz so cool watching them eat live!!! ooo my Amazon Leaf fish only eat live lvie bearers.. but last night i saw something odd, it ate a frozen blood worm!! And I was so happy to see it!!! cuz that means it is possible for them to eat blood worms!! that way if i cant supply live then they can eat frozen!!! just like the rest of them! =D well... it was only my smallest amazon leaf that ate the blood worm.. the big ones dont seem to be interessted =x
Those Africanleaf/Bush fish are cute when they are small =D
Those Africanleaf/Bush fish are cute when they are small =D