Description
Natural Range: India, Nepal, Bangladesh
Adult Size: around 4-5"
Sold as: Unsexed
Overview:
This is one of the few fish species that communicate using sounds audible to humans. If you have a group of these fish and listen very carefully during feeding time, you may hear their "dinner conversation," which sounds like a soft clicking noise. These highly communal fish use sound, and many other interesting behaviors, to keep in contact and manage their social hierarchies. Displays, dances, and occasionally combat are used to manage their social structures. These are fascinating to watch but can stress subdominant fish if they are kept in inadequate numbers. To mitigate this, and to best observe their fascinating social behaviors, this is a fish that is best kept in groups...the more the merrier.
