swarvegorilla wrote:
Yea theres a standard and golden morph of the mini's
not hard at all really just get some good quality flake food.
Thinks it's the Dermogeny's anyway bloody easy if you follow a few steps.
1) Keep them in full fresh. People who call brackish on these fish are
idiots
2) Males will fight and break their beaks. Just get 1 if it's for a curious
oddball addition to a tank. Or get quite a few if the tanks large enuf
3) a good flake food and some live or frozen are the go as foods
4) Go the planted tank!

hope that helps they are funky fish..... certainly spice up guppy tanks
they may be able to survive brackish water for a bit
but they really do do much better in freshwater in my experience

[snip]
Well the situation is a bit more complicated than I hinted...
I'm floating ideas for decorating our company office, and our company
is barracuda-themed--I figured that halfbeaks are the closest and most
practical match--and with a tiny bit of instruction even non-aquarists
should handle them ok. It would have been nicer if they were happy to
live in schools though (like real barracudas).

Seb