do gold clown knifes and black ghost knife fish get along?

Question

My friend said that he would give me a young gold clown knife for free, which i am very interested in...only one thing makes me curious, would a black ghost knife about the size of your palm get along with a gold clown knife also the size of a palm?

Answer 1

Regardless of the electric field, these fish shouldn't be kept together. The ghost knife is a passive fish to most other species (they will be aggressive with another adult ghost knife) but clown knives are aggressive predators. And that doesn't even get into the size of tank you'd need to keep one as an adult!

The only knifefish you should ever keep together are glass knives (and yes, these do emit the electrical field, but they are a naturally shoaling species).