Freshwater archer & Jardini compatability.

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Ade said:
"Seven archerfish species are known, all members of the genus Toxotes.

There are 5 freshwater archerfishes: Toxotes blythii, Toxotes kimberleyensis, Toxotes lorentzi, Toxotes microlepis, and Toxotes oligolepis. Toxotes microlepis is unique among the five freshwater archerfish species in sometimes being found in slightly brackish water as well, but ecologically speaking, it can be placed among the freshwater archers and kept perfectly well in freshwater aquaria. The remaining two archerfish species are found primarily in brackish or marine environments, Toxotes chatareus and Toxotes jaculatrix. Toxotes chatareus and Toxotes jaculatrix are both hobby staples, and aquarium books covering brackish water fishes will usually include comments on one or other species, and therefore not too much will be said about them here."

Ref: tropical fish finder .co . Uk

I have 2 microlepis archer. They are now 8 inch. Quite big.
I used to own a jar at same time.
Durin those 7 months, the archers turned into mid to bottom level fish. The jar owned the middle and top of tank.
Not a good mix.


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Gr8 input. Will take ur advice


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Hello,

the pond optimistic80 linked is mine and as Bderick67 said, it's not a jar but an asian arowana.

As for my archers (blythii kind as much as I can tell), the pond is big enough that they can swim at the top without bumping in my arowana, only time they go to middle/bottom is at night to sleep.
Also the arowana joined the pond after them, in december 2011 @ 9" and is almost 18" now.
Although he was a bully at my LFS, he's very peaceful now, even all my barbs sleep at the top.

I've no experience with jars, but everything I've read about them sounded like a bloothbath ...
 
b00ft00 said:
Hello,

the pond optimistic80 linked is mine and as Bderick67 said, it's not a jar but an asian arowana.

As for my archers (blythii kind as much as I can tell), the pond is big enough that they can swim at the top without bumping in my arowana, only time they go to middle/bottom is at night to sleep.
Also the arowana joined the pond after them, in december 2011 @ 9" and is almost 18" now.
Although he was a bully at my LFS, he's very peaceful now, even all my barbs sleep at the top.

I've no experience with jars, but everything I've read about them sounded like a bloothbath ...
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Fish tank in paradise, what's not to like?

Great setup!
 
b00ft00 said:
Hello,

the pond optimistic80 linked is mine and as Bderick67 said, it's not a jar but an asian arowana.

As for my archers (blythii kind as much as I can tell), the pond is big enough that they can swim at the top without bumping in my arowana, only time they go to middle/bottom is at night to sleep.
Also the arowana joined the pond after them, in december 2011 @ 9" and is almost 18" now.
Although he was a bully at my LFS, he's very peaceful now, even all my barbs sleep at the top.

I've no experience with jars, but everything I've read about them sounded like a bloothbath ...
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U must be proud man, what a pond. Awesome


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I've done this in a 5x2x2 tank I kept 4 archers microlepis to be exact with my 38cm jar for 12 months before my jar jumped ( my fault :irked:) I found my jar showed no interest in the archers they swam were they liked most of the time there was the odd aggression here and there. My archers were around 6" the only real problem I had is when the jar was smaller the archers could make him freak out. Its all luck of the draw with jardinis i think.
 
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