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Silver Needle Nose Gars for Sale
Click
here
now to buy these
fish.
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Here is a 6" long Silver Needlenose Gar for sale at our online retail store. Click
here
for more about buying a Silver Needle Nose Gar like this one from us.
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The Silver Needle Nose Gar is a slender piscivorous fish that stalks and eats small fish about the size of a guppy.
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Scientific Name: Xenentodon cancila
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Comments
The Silver Needle Nose shown above had just finished eating a large guppy. and if you look closely, you can actually see a bump in its
stomach about half way from the tip of the beak to the beginning of the fins. It is amazing to watch these fish hunt small fish, catch them, then flip them around until they're properly lined up
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Appropriate Home
An aquarium with at least 50 gallons of water, an
exterior power filter
with a BIO-Wheel, a maximum of 1/4 inch of
gravel, an
aquarium
heater adjusted to keep the water between 78 and 82 degrees F., and at least 1 Tablespoon of
aquarium salt per each
5 gallons of aquarium water. Click
here for more about warm water aquariums.
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Recommended Diet
Small fish the size of guppies. Click
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for more about feeding fish. |
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Compatibility
A Silver Needle Nose is best kept in a group of three or more Silver Needle Noses. They can be kept with most fish that are too big
for a Needle Nose to swallow. Good Tank Mates for Needle Noses:
Archer Fish,
Monos,
Puffers,
White Tip Shark Cats, and the
Fan Dancer Goby.
Click
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Size and Life Span
Silver Needle Noses will grow to about 8" and live for several years.
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About our Photographs ...
Almost all the
photographs and videos, shown on this web site,
were taken of our fish by DrTom Bailey, one of
the owners. Compare the fish in these pictures
to the fish in our competitors pictures. Their
fish often have clamped fins and poor color,
while our fish look healthy, energetic, and
colorful! We buy the highest quality fish,
produced by the best fish farms and
caught by the best collectors of wild fish, then
we take incredibly good care of our fish in our
advanced facilities. If you compare the fish
shown in the pictures on this site to our
competitors, you can instantly see, ours are
better! ;^ }
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