Very RARE Knife Fish -- Idenification Needed

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SanguineBane

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So my name is Courtney, I am 21 years old and I work at Aquamart in Lakewood, Colorado -- but I will NOT be using these forums as a place to advertise for my place of employment (I wanted to say that now so that I will hopefully not be accused of it in the future -- I am addicted to fishies and love furthering my own knowledge, so what I post here is for my own personal benefit and not for my store, though I may add our website to my sticky signature, if I remember).

With that being said --->

We got in four knives the other day (two species and two of each) that I am having a hard time identifying. I know I have one narrowed down. They're an Orthosternarchus tamandua.

The other set is completely eluding me! They're a pale blue-ish white, with a rat-tail and a straight back, like black ghosts and glass knives; however they almost have a trumpet-like snout, like the tamandua.

Any help at all would be muchly appreciated!!! Even just a scientific name would help out a lot! I take of these little guys and just want to make sure that they are given the best care I can possibly give them.

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SanguineBane;2610020; said:
I already posted this under general aquaria discussion before I realized that there was an entire section just for knives!!! Anyway, I am re-posting this under the special knife section, just in case!! And from now on I will make sure my stuff goes in the right section to begin with!!


Brief Introduction -->

So my name is Courtney, I am 21 years old and I work at Aquamart in Lakewood, Colorado -- but I will NOT be using these forums as a place to advertise for my place of employment (I wanted to say that now so that I will hopefully not be accused of it in the future -- I am addicted to fishies and love furthering my own knowledge, so what I post here is for my own personal benefit and not for my store, though I may add our website to my sticky signature, if I remember).

With that being said --->

We got in four knives the other day (two species and two of each) that I am having a hard time identifying. I know I have one narrowed down. They're an Orthosternarchus tamandua.

The other set is completely eluding me! They're a pale blue-ish white, with a rat-tail and a straight back, like black ghosts and glass knives; however they almost have a trumpet-like snout, like the tamandua.

Any help at all would be muchly appreciated!!! Even just a scientific name would help out a lot! I take of these little guys and just want to make sure that they are given the best care I can possibly give them.
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I don't know the species but I saw some just like em on a nature show a while back, they were caught in the very deep part of the amazon or a tributary. Way cool I hope you took em home!
 
Thank you!!! I was up until 1 AM, googling all the different scientific names of the various families and had no luck with photos coming up. I just googled "dragon knife" and there it is! Seems we have white dragons!!! Thank youall so much for your help!!!

I am trying to get some pictures of the tamandua knives but they are in a very low light plant tank atm and very shy.

Thank you guys!!! I really appreciate it!!!
 
SanguineBane;2610894; said:
Real quick, the scientific name is Parapteronotus hasemani.
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hasemani is the scientific name for whats commonly called a dragon knife but the fish you have is a compsaraia,either samueli or compsa
 
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