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Perches and Perch-like Fishes

Families: Centrarchidae, Ambassidae, Datnioididae, Monodactylidae, Percidae, Scatophagidae, Toxotidae

Gold Tiger DatnoidPhoto © Animal-World: Courtesy Ken Childs

   The Perches or Perch-like fishes are more unusual aquarium specimens and many get quite large!

   The fish in this group, the Perches and Perch-like fishes belong in the order, perciformes. This is the largest order of fishes. Most of the ones included here will be in the suborder percoidei and include the Glassfishes, Flashers, Sunfishes, True Perches, Fingerfishes or Moonfishes, Archerfishes, and Scats (Argusfishes). Many of these fish are brackish, but not all. See each species for its particular water conditions.

For more Information on keeping freshwater fish see:
Guide to a Happy, Healthy Freshwater Aquarium

Perches and Perch-like Fishes: Click on the small images below
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Perches and Perch-like Fishes
Archer Fish	Blackbanded Sunfish
Toxotes jaculatrix	Enneacanthus chaetodon
Gold Datnoid	Humphead Glassfish
Datnioides microlepis	Parambassis pulcinella
Mono - Moonfish	Spotted Scat
Monodactylus argenteus	Scatophagus argus

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