Jardini in community?

[JardiniBoy]

how about keeping them with other non aggressive fish. I've always wanted to get a jardini and keep em with silver dollars and clown loaches can i not even do that???

As I said ... you won't know until you try

In general, jars don't tolerate tankmates, but you may get lucky. One way to increase your chances is to grow them out together. Just remember that jars grow much quicker than most fish, so start the others first, or buy the jar much smaller.

 

[arlo]

how often do u feed them jardiniboy?

 

[JardiniBoy]

how often do u feed them jardiniboy?

Daily, but I've only been feeding pellets for the past few months due to the high bio load on the tank. It was meant to just be a grow out tank for them, but it took longer to buy an apartment here than I expected ... foreigners buying property in the East is a rather complicated business

 

[arlo]

PICS??

 

[WhiteLineRacer]

OK I'd like to know some experience of jardini keepers, and successful attempts to keep them in predatory communities.

I've had 1 jardini that started ripping up all my fish, was moving soon so I sold it.

However I'm going to try another one, so I'd like to hear some success stories.

I had a Jardini live in peace with a BGK, Ornate Bichir, Tyre Track eel, Red tailed black shark, Plecos and Silver dollars (got nipped a bit but no deaths)

I moved her on in the end due to tank size but she never killed a thing. She was about 17inches in the end. The BGK was 14inch as was the ornate, the red tailed shark was 7/8 inches, tyre track 17 inches. SD's were around 7 too.

All the fish grew up together (very important I think) and had many hidding places and cover plus a large open area in the middle for the jardini to swim in.

This was up to 17 inches at a larger size i'm not sure what would have happend, Jardini's do need a big tank though.

BTW those indian glass fish in the pic she grew up with too, never touched them... but the bichir did.