Toxotidae
Toxotes
40.00 cm
More commonly grow to around 20cm.
Community
Not particularly aggressive, but these archerfish have a very large mouth. So be careful not to put them with smaller fish.
Insectivore, Omnivore
750.00 L
180.00 cm x 50.00 cm
10.0 C - 35.0 C
pH: 6-7.5, whatever it is, keep it consistent and the archerfish should be very hardy.
Surface
Not to be confused with banded archerfish (toxotes jaculatrix). Toxotes jaculatrix has less only 4-5 stripes, and all of the stripes are very clear. The seven-spot archerfish (toxotes chatareus) has 6-7 stripes, and every second stripe is shorter and only appears towards the top of the body.
Website with better examples:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21043056/#:~:text=chatareus%20can%20be%20distinguished%20from,to%20the%20correct%20species%20cluster.
Egg-scatterer
Very difficult to spawn. A mature male and female will embrace at the surface, where they will release 20,000-150,000 eggs. These eggs will float to the surface and hatch within 12 hours.
30000 fry
Early wet season. This can be replicated in an aquarium or pond by doing a water change with slightly cooler water.
After hatching, the fry can be fed baby brine shrimp and I would assume very finely crushed up flakes. The first archerfish that I got was about 1cm long and took to crushed up flakes and Xtreme nano pellets immediately.