Channa bleheri, Chaca Chaca and Antennarius biocellatus fit together?

[neko1]

in my area puffers on online shops are around 30isch francs

might be but their are only 3 species that would fit in that tank and are freshwater. One of those are pea puffers and really really small.
The other medium ones are hard to find and expensive. The ones who are very large as mbu or fahaka dont fit in that tank but are a bit more affortable.
And most selled are the green puffers which are brackish and eventually need salt. those are quite cheap but will die if kept in freshwater.

 

[jjohnwm]

Aside from water chemistry, it's also important to consider the behaviour of the various species. I have no experience with C.bleheri but I will assume that it is a fairly aggressive and fast eater. Chaca chaca...another fish I have never kept...is described in most literature as a lurker and ambush predator, which implies that it will be a slower, more methodical feeder and poorly suited to mix with a rocket-with-teeth like a wolffish. And an anglerfish is slower still; I had a marine species for a few years and it was practically inert.

But, forget for a moment that they require different water chemistries and temperatures. Disregard that they may not be able to all get proper nutrition when kept together. There's one more fly in this ointment, and it's one that crops up in probably 25% of the "what else can I put in this tank?" threads on MFK.

When you read that Fish A requires a tank of X capacity and length...and that Fish B requires a similar size tank...and so does Fish C...that does not mean that you can proceed to jam multiples of all three species together in that same little tank!

 

[latapy10]

yeah but thats still a bad combination. Your snakehead will die early because its in constant temperature. its not good for him.
The reason i dont keep my snakehead and ctenopoma in the same tank

My snakehead ended and died in the filter of my tank...So I replaced him by banded knivefish.And you are right that snakehead need cooler phase...

 

[latapy10]

Aside from water chemistry, it's also important to consider the behaviour of the various species. I have no experience with C.bleheri but I will assume that it is a fairly aggressive and fast eater. Chaca chaca...another fish I have never kept...is described in most literature as a lurker and ambush predator, which implies that it will be a slower, more methodical feeder and poorly suited to mix with a rocket-with-teeth like a wolffish. And an anglerfish is slower still; I had a marine species for a few years and it was practically inert.

But, forget for a moment that they require different water chemistries and temperatures. Disregard that they may not be able to all get proper nutrition when kept together. There's one more fly in this ointment, and it's one that crops up in probably 25% of the "what else can I put in this tank?" threads on MFK.

When you read that Fish A requires a tank of X capacity and length...and that Fish B requires a similar size tank...and so does Fish C...that does not mean that you can proceed to jam multiples of all three species together in that same little tank!

Channa bleheri is an ambush predator,very calm fish.But against chaca chaca he will be without any chance...Finally this small snakehead wil be eaten by this catfish... A highly predatory species, C. chaca is best kept alone. It will consume almost any fish that strays close enough to its capacious mouth and is capable of swallowing prey items almost as big as itself.

 

[jjohnwm]

Channa bleheri is an ambush predator,very calm fish.But against chaca chaca he will be without any chance...Finally this small snakehead wil be eaten by this catfish... A highly predatory species, C. chaca is best kept alone. It will consume almost any fish that strays close enough to its capacious mouth and is capable of swallowing prey items almost as big as itself.

I think the question of who eats whom would depend upon the relative sizes of the fish in question. My point is simply that the tank is too small for these fish to stay out of each other's way and that a tank that is marginally big enough for a single fish doesn't work for a bunch of them.

 

[simi.druk]

So how much(of a tank size) for the chaca chaca

 

[neko1]

So how much(of a tank size) for the chaca chaca

i would say 1.2meter aquarium works. But you cant add anything with chaca chaca except some small fish like danio's because they swim in the upper part and are to much trouble for him to eat.

Dont wane be mean. But they are really really hard to find. How are you gone get a chaca chaca if i may ask?
Also they will burry under the sand and will stay still most of the day. So your taking a 1.2meter tank for a fish that is basically sleeping the whole day. they are cool but you shouldn't expect anything to happen except him laying still or hiding.

 

[simi.druk]

I think the convicts are cool
so inned so facts bc i also wanna breed them

 

[Caveden]

What are the dimensions of the tank?
For a 45g you can own a solo bleheri, 10g more and maybe a pair. another good option is channa pulchra, perhaps you could do a pair but ur choice. What I would recommend is a pair of channa andrao, smaller type of channa only getting about 5-7” usually. With these types of dwarf snakeheads I’ve seen tanks where people add community fish such as tetras in a planted tank with the channa.