I love South American Leaf Fish. I had one named Saga for 1 year, but I left on a trip and my mom didn't feed it and he died. Just one of my favorite fish ever.
tropicalfishlover when I bred seahorses that was the same thing. I would break them onto frozen as babies with cyclopeeze. I want to buy some of your leaf fish! Do you sell? I contacted a science center in California who has a video on TH-cam who raised babies, but they never broke them off of live. Leaf fish are my favorite aquarium fish.
It really surprised me seeing this video since they move so similar to tetraodontiform fish, keeping the body rigid while propelling themselves with their anal and pectoral fins and keeping the tailfin folded up, I always assumed that they moved fairly normally on account of their pretty average body shape
My Amazon leaf fish have quite a fair bit of fail hunt. What should I do ? I had already put live guppies and culled shrimp for them. Is there something wrong if some of them are always facing upwards
What do you mean by failed hunt? Do they try to catch the guppies but miss, or don´t they try at all? Normally Leaf fish stands with face down, so probably something not ok with them!? I had also problem when I bought my first group, of 6 only one survived! This fishspecies is always wildcaught, and often in a very bad condition due to long shipping and starvation and often carry intestinal parasites and other bacterial infections, due to bad handling and dirty water during transport! They need clean soft rainwater pH on the lower side 5-6 with low mineral content. Wildcaught specimens don´t like hard water, but my fry was slowly used to tapwater (pH7) as they grew up, but for the eggs to hatch and develop rainwater is a must! It´s a fish that should only be kept by experienced aquarists with knowledge of the biology of fishes! Definitely not for beginners! I have kept aquariumfish for more than 50 years and also studied Biology including Limnology at University for 4 years, and have many fishcatching trips to tropical countries so I have at least some knowledge! Some fish can be a challenge though, and I had to go through a lot of trials and errors, before I succeded to keep and breed my Leaf fish! Good Luck!
@@tropicalfishlover It tried to predate on a guppy but failed. I bought 3 of them. One of them managed to hunt my mosquito rasbora. I have tested my water parameter and it's around 6.4~6.8 PH level. I do agree that they might have already been in a very bad condition. In the end, I have lost 3 of them.
What size tank would you recommend for a pair? How many live feeders did you have to give the wild caught adults? Been really thinking about trying these out
@@tropicalfishlover cool, thanks! Do you add any minerals to the water or is it just straight rain water? I'm not very experienced with low pH fish (tanganyikans are my comfort zone) but I've always admired this fish.
@@tropicalfishlover wow, that's crazy. I've got a fish store near me that sells RO water. Gonna have to see how much space I have, I was originally planning on a 15 gallon (24x12x12) but something a bit larger would probably be better.
I love South American Leaf Fish. I had one named Saga for 1 year, but I left on a trip and my mom didn't feed it and he died. Just one of my favorite fish ever.
These are some incredible fish! Absolutely amazing.
I literally just found out about these guys yesterday. They are too friggin awesome
Tsuki? Either way I think they’re gorgeous
yes, butthe down side is that you get bored quickly.
THANK YOU
Absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing
This is amazing! People thought it was impossible to feed them frozen. Good job!
tropicalfishlover when I bred seahorses that was the same thing. I would break them onto frozen as babies with cyclopeeze.
I want to buy some of your leaf fish! Do you sell?
I contacted a science center in California who has a video on TH-cam who raised babies, but they never broke them off of live.
Leaf fish are my favorite aquarium fish.
@@tropicalfishlover Any tips on getting them to breed?
Great! Another fish I want! 😁
Leaf fish are beautiful.
This is amazing
Beautiful fish and set up never seen these fish before. Can you keep them in 50% RO and 50% tap water so you some minerals?
It really surprised me seeing this video since they move so similar to tetraodontiform fish, keeping the body rigid while propelling themselves with their anal and pectoral fins and keeping the tailfin folded up, I always assumed that they moved fairly normally on account of their pretty average body shape
wonderfull fishes and gratulation to breeding them
How many are in there together an how big is the aquarium
Do they get along with brown ghost knife fishes?
Do you ever breed them to sell? You could probably make some good money on leaf-fish trained to take frozen food.
never knew they had so many color variations
They can change colors like Chameleons!
How much do they cost and where do you buy them?
I need this fish
My Amazon leaf fish have quite a fair bit of fail hunt. What should I do ?
I had already put live guppies and culled shrimp for them.
Is there something wrong if some of them are always facing upwards
What do you mean by failed hunt? Do they try to catch the guppies but miss, or don´t they try at all? Normally Leaf fish stands with face down, so probably something not ok with them!? I had also problem when I bought my first group, of 6 only one survived! This fishspecies is always wildcaught, and often in a very bad condition due to long shipping and starvation and often carry intestinal parasites and other bacterial infections, due to bad handling and dirty water during transport! They need clean soft rainwater pH on the lower side 5-6 with low mineral content. Wildcaught specimens don´t like hard water, but my fry was slowly used to tapwater (pH7) as they grew up, but for the eggs to hatch and develop rainwater is a must! It´s a fish that should only be kept by experienced aquarists with knowledge of the biology of fishes! Definitely not for beginners! I have kept aquariumfish for more than 50 years and also studied Biology including Limnology at University for 4 years, and have many fishcatching trips to tropical countries so I have at least some knowledge! Some fish can be a challenge though, and I had to go through a lot of trials and errors, before I succeded to keep and breed my Leaf fish! Good Luck!
@@tropicalfishlover It tried to predate on a guppy but failed. I bought 3 of them. One of them managed to hunt my mosquito rasbora. I have tested my water parameter and it's around 6.4~6.8 PH level. I do agree that they might have already been in a very bad condition. In the end, I have lost 3 of them.
That's a frenzy?! Cool fish though.
what is your tank set up, what filter do you use?
@@tropicalfishlover thank you for the reply, much appreciated.
@@zephywang606 What did they say?! I want it too :(
how to eat this fish is similar to the Siamese tiger fish, hehehe
These remind me of the satanic leaf tailed geckos no 2 are the same camo
What size tank would you recommend for a pair? How many live feeders did you have to give the wild caught adults? Been really thinking about trying these out
@@tropicalfishlover cool, thanks! Do you add any minerals to the water or is it just straight rain water? I'm not very experienced with low pH fish (tanganyikans are my comfort zone) but I've always admired this fish.
@@tropicalfishlover wow, that's crazy. I've got a fish store near me that sells RO water. Gonna have to see how much space I have, I was originally planning on a 15 gallon (24x12x12) but something a bit larger would probably be better.