Split-fin Flashlight fish ??? +picture

[capo larzo]

Ive owned the same type of flashlight fish years ago that i just currently purchased. However I do not recall quite a bit. Through photographic and anatomical comparison, I believe it is the Split-fin Flashlight fish aka Anomalops katoptron. But other scientific names are also popping up as well, usually in reference to the Flashlight fish, describing a fish that spends its days in the deep, at the mouths of Coelocanth caves, making its way to the surface after the sun has set to feed on zooplankton/micro-fauna and then return to much greater depths.
This fish I'm talking about is called Photoblepheron palpebratus. Now if this is just a synonymous scientific classification in regards to Anomalops katoptron then this fish needs my public aquarium and its resources to be kept thriving.

However, i dont believe it is. Fishbase.org discusses how a larger version of the fish is found at deeper depths. "version" or however they word it exactly could mean many things. But the smaller fish i have was caught in shallow water, on the reef in the Indo-Pacific, as discussed with the source. I also believe this fish does not swim to the great depths discussed about other fish that are similar and in question.

Any ideas on the differences here? I also recall another species name being something like steinitzi, dont remember the Genus before it tho.

And of the different scientific names?
Any captive care EXPERIENCE???:worried:
I work at that public aquarium, where i intern and aquarist.
I have the means and the capability to make this fish thrive if all goes as planned, God willing.

Pics from quarantine will follow.

Thanks for any info.:hmm5:
This post will also be on another forum local to my area as well.

 

[capo larzo]

ok. so i answered some of my own questions.

Theres about 8 species of flashlight fish, all falling under the anomalopidae (sp?). Different genus, different species however.

Too most commonly available are the too species i mentioned above, so they are actually different and not just synonymous for the same fish.

However the anomalops katoptron has a deeper water variety, which may in fact be a subspecies? These fishes are also a bit larger than the less deep fish, which is what i have.

So i really just need anybody whos ever kept one to chime in?
I have him in a 90 gallon quarantine-type tank that just so happens to have all nocturnal fish in it. So its very very dim lighting during the day and pitch black with one LED moonlight for the rest of the time.

If someone has experience with long term care, max length after periods of time, and especially feeding and converting to frozen and perhaps flake,pellet? that would be great?
Otherwise i have some copepod cultures im going to try and ill try tigger pods and the like after some live brine shrimp.

 

[joejoe1055]

i have never had one
but keep us updated and good luck