Tig and jur cohabitation: what are realistic expectations?

Most cats are territorial. I have kept both. I have also kept my current tig in with a sailfin cat in a very large tank and they still crossed paths and mixed it up resulting in torn fins and streamers. For me personally I would only keep one perfect specimen in a tank rather than 2 torn up ones

you know my dream is to have all species of the brachy genus in one enclosure so interested to see how this progresses


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Very few cats get along in general even in same specie groups....ime its better to have one solo specimen per tank or a half dozen or more together to spread the agression out between the group whether it be one species or a mix. Even in large groups, the weak/small are often singled out and beat to death or eaten....2 together is asking for a fight imo especially in any scenario youve listed... txt,jxj, or txj. Granted theres exceptions to every rule and ive seen both species housed together in larger quarters 4'x8',10'x3',7'x14' so in the end its always a gamble but not completly unrealistic. Id set up a territory/hide on opposite sides of the tank and hope for the best when trying two. In general i do not keep my "show" cats with any other inhabitants at all so im a bit bias, but it ensures their safety as most are actually timid and get picked on in a typical monster community setting. My tig hand feeds in a tank alone, stays calm and active. If hes put with any other fish, he becomes timid, flighty (glass banging), and slows feeding. My final solution for you is to set up 2 tanks side by side on one stand lol...keep both cats nice and classy, dent free with full streamers...

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I would agree that most species of catfish are naturally very aggressive when it comes to being territorial. When you mix two large cats like this your gonna need space and lots of it. I have also never kept tigs but from what I gathered, mixing them with jurenese is a bad combo.

I've never personally kept either but I got a summer job at the Pittsburgh aquarium this past summer and I'm pretty good friends with their amazon keeper. They have a 18"ish tig in a tank with a TON (around 40-50) striped raphs and and some L191s and I never noticed aggression in that tank. However that's not to say that it wouldn't fight with other Brachyplatystoma species or even any other Pimelodids if it were to be placed in a tank with them.

I know cats are territorial but my big tig tolerates rays with no problems
But it hated a lince cat and would attack every time it passed which was very often with a lince

I think a jurence with beat a tig up as adults as they are a more bulky fish

Tigs don't do much normally they just lay around looking cool they even know they are the best looking cat on the planet I don't think it's worth stressing them out


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