black arowana and gar as tankmates

Jordy thinks its a bad idea...

They cohab fine. I've kept gars with silvers, a black aro, and a jardini. (Not all at the same time)

This is not a recommended combo as per the "forums literature" (stickys etc) but the fact is I´ve seen many users with it.
The main cons that are pointed out have to do with feeding time: the gars usually like to take their time to eat and do it in a calm manner and some of them freak out when there are agressive feeders in the tank and may injure themselves. Furthermore, when/if they decide to eat, there is no food in the tank.
But perhaps if you have a bigger gar with a juvie aro the gar gets used to it and is able to compete for the food without getting stressed.

I really don´t have first hand experience because I keep my gars and aro in different tanks: gars with bichirs and a pom-pom knife; aro with leporinus and a panaque.
Looking at my fish and seeing the time my gars take to eat, they would have real problems if they were with the RTG aro

My gars and aros were calmer after I separated them. Had them together for a few years. Once they were separate the behavior of them calmed greatly. After that I never found a gar on the floor.

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No aggression at all between the gars and arowanas. At feeding time the arowanas would try to steal the food from the gars, but the gars learned to eat quickly.

You received little feed back as the gar aro question is as old as gars themselves. A search would show that. Gars and silver fish don't work out in the end. I was a supporter of aro and gar combo before. Then I tried without aros. Worked out great and had better fish for them being separate.

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