flashlight fish info?
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stephish
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Here's what I've found so far....looks like it would need an established tank and a means of feeding it pods and no shrimp in your tank as it appears they would be dinner.....
The lanternfish is a common, deep-sea dweller that has many light-producing organs along its body, especially the belly. This fish lives in a dark environment, and its bio-luminescent organs light up as the lanternfish swims. It uses its lights to lure prey to it and to attract other fish.
Lanternfish live in mid-ocean depths (several hundred feet down) but swim to the surface at night. They are found in oceans all over the world. The different species of Lanternfish have different patterns of light and are different colors.
Anatomy: Lanternfish have huge eyes and a series of light-producing organs along their underside. The largest Lanternfish are rarely over 1 foot (30 cm) long. Myctophum affine (pictured on this page) is up to 5 inches (15 cm) long and has silver scales.
Diet: Lanternfish eat copepods (small invertebrates with big eyes and long antennae) and amphipods (like shrimp).
The lanternfish is a common, deep-sea dweller that has many light-producing organs along its body, especially the belly. This fish lives in a dark environment, and its bio-luminescent organs light up as the lanternfish swims. It uses its lights to lure prey to it and to attract other fish.
Lanternfish live in mid-ocean depths (several hundred feet down) but swim to the surface at night. They are found in oceans all over the world. The different species of Lanternfish have different patterns of light and are different colors.
Anatomy: Lanternfish have huge eyes and a series of light-producing organs along their underside. The largest Lanternfish are rarely over 1 foot (30 cm) long. Myctophum affine (pictured on this page) is up to 5 inches (15 cm) long and has silver scales.
Diet: Lanternfish eat copepods (small invertebrates with big eyes and long antennae) and amphipods (like shrimp).
stephish
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Here's more......suggests low light so i'd say that takes out putting them in with corals...
Also several sites use flashlight and lanter almost interchangeably but it looks like they are in a different genera but same Family....
Flashlight Fishes
These fishes belong in the "Order Beryciformes" and "Suborder Trachichthyoidei" as members of the "Family Anomalopidae" (Flashlight Fishes) consisting of 5 genera, and 6 species.
All are black with large mouths. They generally live in shoals inside caves and protected dimly lit areas. They have an organ, called a "photophore" below each eye that contains luminescent bacteria. The light produced can be turned on or off by either covering the organ with a moveable membrane, or rotating the organ in its socket. It is used to attract shrimps and small fishes.
Best kept in dimly lit tanks, these fishes need hiding places to take refuge from more active specimens. Keeping them with other low light species, such as cardinalfishes makes for a suitable environment. Live foods are usually needed to get them accustom to their surrounding, however frozen meaty-type foods can be substituted once they begin eating.
Also several sites use flashlight and lanter almost interchangeably but it looks like they are in a different genera but same Family....
Flashlight Fishes
These fishes belong in the "Order Beryciformes" and "Suborder Trachichthyoidei" as members of the "Family Anomalopidae" (Flashlight Fishes) consisting of 5 genera, and 6 species.
All are black with large mouths. They generally live in shoals inside caves and protected dimly lit areas. They have an organ, called a "photophore" below each eye that contains luminescent bacteria. The light produced can be turned on or off by either covering the organ with a moveable membrane, or rotating the organ in its socket. It is used to attract shrimps and small fishes.
Best kept in dimly lit tanks, these fishes need hiding places to take refuge from more active specimens. Keeping them with other low light species, such as cardinalfishes makes for a suitable environment. Live foods are usually needed to get them accustom to their surrounding, however frozen meaty-type foods can be substituted once they begin eating.