I'm thinking about buying a 5-6" Red Spotted Arowana.
Here's my situation.
Right now I have a 22" royal clown knife, a big red oscar, a huge iniridae super severum, a 16" marbled sailfin pleco, a 14" tiger shovelnose, a 15" hybrid achara cat of some sort, a 7" granulosus, a 7" port cichlid, and a 20" fire eel in my 150, and a 20" giant gourami and 22" ornate bichir in my 80. I already had to give away a rather plain atapabo II pike that was about 14" that was in the 80 because the gourami is a mean bastard, which is also why he's in the 80.
I'm currently building out a 340 with a 220 sump that will be shared with the 150. It's at least 20 days out. My plan is to put the big sailfin and tiger cats, the royal clown knife, the giant gourami, and the fire eel in the 340. That leaves the oscar, severum, 15" hybrid cat, 22" bichir(the clown knife bites his top fins off so he can't go in the 340), 7" granulosus, and port cichlid in the 150.
I have the opportunity for a limited time to buy one of these Aros, which are my personal favorite for looks, and I'm pretty sure the offer will expire before I have the 340. So it would have to live in the 150 with all of the fish from the first paragraph for a bit.
I'm not too worried about it getting hurt - the catfish will ignore it, the cichlids don't really seriously hurt fish(just chase them around and nip fins), and the only fish that can seriously hurt it, the clown knife, A) can't really maneuver very well in there with all of the driftwood, and B) doesn't really hang around the top of the tank much. What I'm worried about is what the Aro will do, because with the size of the fish in there large disturbances can be rather crazy.
I've read that they can be aggressive, but I'm thinking with it being the smallest fish for quite a while, things should be ok. I'll be putting it in the 340 as soon as I can obviously, although I forsee perhaps having to grow it out a bit in the 150(or even alone in the 80) if the giant gourami decides to pick on it in the 340 while it's still 6-7".
Should I get it?
Here's my situation.
Right now I have a 22" royal clown knife, a big red oscar, a huge iniridae super severum, a 16" marbled sailfin pleco, a 14" tiger shovelnose, a 15" hybrid achara cat of some sort, a 7" granulosus, a 7" port cichlid, and a 20" fire eel in my 150, and a 20" giant gourami and 22" ornate bichir in my 80. I already had to give away a rather plain atapabo II pike that was about 14" that was in the 80 because the gourami is a mean bastard, which is also why he's in the 80.
I'm currently building out a 340 with a 220 sump that will be shared with the 150. It's at least 20 days out. My plan is to put the big sailfin and tiger cats, the royal clown knife, the giant gourami, and the fire eel in the 340. That leaves the oscar, severum, 15" hybrid cat, 22" bichir(the clown knife bites his top fins off so he can't go in the 340), 7" granulosus, and port cichlid in the 150.
I have the opportunity for a limited time to buy one of these Aros, which are my personal favorite for looks, and I'm pretty sure the offer will expire before I have the 340. So it would have to live in the 150 with all of the fish from the first paragraph for a bit.
I'm not too worried about it getting hurt - the catfish will ignore it, the cichlids don't really seriously hurt fish(just chase them around and nip fins), and the only fish that can seriously hurt it, the clown knife, A) can't really maneuver very well in there with all of the driftwood, and B) doesn't really hang around the top of the tank much. What I'm worried about is what the Aro will do, because with the size of the fish in there large disturbances can be rather crazy.
I've read that they can be aggressive, but I'm thinking with it being the smallest fish for quite a while, things should be ok. I'll be putting it in the 340 as soon as I can obviously, although I forsee perhaps having to grow it out a bit in the 150(or even alone in the 80) if the giant gourami decides to pick on it in the 340 while it's still 6-7".
Should I get it?
