Yo guys. I had a golden arowana a few weeks back. He’s about 17 inch. I read that these are fairly calm as far as arowana go…. But that isn’t the case with this one. He hates everything in the tank. I have a 15 inch peacock bass who has turned to always hiding as for some reason the site of him angers the aro. Anybody else had an issue with arowana and bass together?
Golden Arowana HATES my peacock bass
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I'm a firm believer that despite some fish are supposed to be peaceful, calm, and less aggressive it's personality imo. It's something about the Pbass that the Arowana doesn't like.
It’s not just the pass. It’s everything. But whereas he will just bully the other stuff, he goes bonkers at the bass. The Oscar’s have learned to bow to him. That helps them. Haha. The bass still flares up which I don’t think he likes. Typical bully.
Me too. An adult peacock is a full tilt cornhole. I've got a couple of them that will hammer the glass as my Dobermann walks by as if to say 'right here, right now, b*tch'. That same Dobermann got between my wife and a black bear w/ cubs 3x last summer. If those goofy peacocks only knew...
I don't have a video posted on YT of my dog but here's one of his gramps. Def suffers foolishness poorly.
Consider how apex predators live in nature.
A pack of wolves may require a territory 50 square miles.
1 tiger may require the same 50 mile area.
Although a 2 ft long apex fish predator may not require 50 miles, ...
where I collect fish, I might find a 12" Gobiomorus to be the only apex predator of its ilk in a stretch of river the size of a city block.
What is the size tank they are in?
Why should a P-bass or Arowana be be any different? why would any apex predator species of fish be expected to peacefully share even the largest tank?
Below is the section of river where the goby above was caught.
In this section of river we caught tons of schooling tetras, many plecos, a few non-picavorine cichlids, but only 1 Gobiormorus.
We cast our nets in all the visible locations of the photo, yet only the 1 apex Gobiomorus.
Sure we may have missed one or 2, that may have been there in that amount of space. but....this might suggest
in a certain amount of space, expecting more than 1 such apex to live peaceably may be stretching that spaces reasonable limits.
A pack of wolves may require a territory 50 square miles.
1 tiger may require the same 50 mile area.
Although a 2 ft long apex fish predator may not require 50 miles, ...
where I collect fish, I might find a 12" Gobiomorus to be the only apex predator of its ilk in a stretch of river the size of a city block.
What is the size tank they are in?
Why should a P-bass or Arowana be be any different? why would any apex predator species of fish be expected to peacefully share even the largest tank?
Below is the section of river where the goby above was caught.
In this section of river we caught tons of schooling tetras, many plecos, a few non-picavorine cichlids, but only 1 Gobiormorus.
We cast our nets in all the visible locations of the photo, yet only the 1 apex Gobiomorus.
Sure we may have missed one or 2, that may have been there in that amount of space. but....this might suggest
in a certain amount of space, expecting more than 1 such apex to live peaceably may be stretching that spaces reasonable limits.
If that's a Kelberi or an Azul I suspect that may be the way it is for the long haul but if it's a Mono or one of the stouter Peacocks there would have likely been a come to Jesus meeting somewhere w/in the next couple three inches of growth.
You had answered the size question before. Sorry I missed that.
You had answered the size question before. Sorry I missed that.
He’s a mono. He doesn’t take any crap from anyone else. He’s such an amazing fish. Shame to see him bullied. I could maybe stick a wavemaker in to see if it calms the aro…..?