due to our locational differences, i have decided to post what kind of
feeder fish we have in my place. locally known as "kataba", some people
call them archer fish or scientific name "toxotes sp"



@Noddy, that greenish floating fish is called kataba in my place... and we have
plenty of them in most water tributaries here.

Nice! Looks like a cool community fish too.
The Panchax are used as mosquito control in a lot of countries.
I got the Panchax to breed them as feeders, because they spawn easily and grow fast.
Got all the info i needed, got the tank, got a couple of fish........
And fell in love with their personality.
They love to interact with me and I can't say that about all communityfish.
And couldn't do it!
Ain't I a pussy?

yes...it so true... they eat a lot of mosquito larvae....
and i love to watch them having baby that swim immediately
after birth...


if you are, then i am too.... one time , i bought a lot of them
for my fishes..and put them in my 5 gal glass bowl.... it took me
two week before i could feed them to my oscars..... my granddaughter
love to watch those small fishes...that make me think to have small
tank for them alone where my little girl could watch them...
isn't it lovely to watch the girl with the fishes????

I think I know what you mean.
This is my Guppie breeder.
And my girl.




They grow so slow to serve as food...I mean the Guppies!

that is exactly what i mean.... Praise GOD for a nice view.
that scenario can not be explain by a thousands sketches

Thanks for sharing....

Noddy wrote:


Noddy, don't feel bad. Through talking with several members on here I have found a LOT of us feel guilty for even feeding night crawlers! LOL. Me included.

wow, those archer fish are amazing, I can't believe people use them as feeders. In case anybody doesn't know, they are called archer fish because they fire a waterjet from the mouth to knock their prey out of overhanging bushes

OFL wrote:


My dad said his mate used to keep archers. He wouldnt feed them for 2 or 3 days and then they would tie a piece of silver foil to some string. The arhcers would spit water at the foil and hit it every time. One day i will have a tank with some in. If i remember right they are brackish water fish

delboybully wrote:


Ok, didn't know they were archers.
I got a very old aquarium book and it says "that it's fun to keep a burning sigaret above the tank, and the archers will spit water on the sigaret..."
Now that some advice your won't find in the newer books, i think.

the real archer i know is the aro. my friend who has an aro in his room
slipped on the floor because of aro's spitting which he first thought was
due to splashing. we only realized that when we have some beers watching
the fish and a bug stopbye on the rin of the tank. the aro keeps on spitting
water over and over thing that he could hit the bug beyond the lid of the tank.