Very Bad Mr Suck Suck
- Thread starter elindra
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For those who have never kept Dorado they should just keep quite.... Dorado will pick a fight with just about any fish. And have an aggressive attitude when it comes to feeding, so when fights take place there will be plenty of missing scales, torn fins, and possibly a dead fish in the mix. I've had dorado rip a fish apart twice its size. For those who don't own these fish and are criticizing elindra for neglect of his fish are wrong and need to do a little more research on fish behavior... and these fish can go a week or two EASILY without feeding. In the wild they don't always find food.
In my overall opinion dorado shouldn't be kept in tanks that aren't over 500+ gallons. These fish are river fish and demand a lot of run to swim and hunt. And grow extremely large as well. They are a sport fish for a reason.
In my overall opinion dorado shouldn't be kept in tanks that aren't over 500+ gallons. These fish are river fish and demand a lot of run to swim and hunt. And grow extremely large as well. They are a sport fish for a reason.
Well except my dorado have always minded his own biz but the Nile had issues with him. I feed the Nile twice a day and he have sand to play with but he just prefer picking a fight with the Dorado.
Thing is it has always been short squabbles with not much damage. They been together for over a year. I
Anyway, he will hv a pond to stay in with his new owner. The guy updated that the scales are growing back though it's still not eating.
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As an african aro owner. All under 12" at the moment, they can be chasers. Especially, with each other. I think it has to do with the streamline shape of the dorado. It triggers the tendency to chase in my opinion. All 4 afrowana will leave everything alone including loaches, but kinda mean towards each other.
to be honest having personally kept both of these fish im suprised the dorado didn't kill the Aro
