55 gallon adquete for a ropefish

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i agree with everyone else, both fish will be fine, although senegals can get to 12 inches, i personally have never seen one that big and only seen a 12 inch senegal in a few pictures, it leads me to believe that it takes a while to get that size, and anyhow, i kept my 12 inch endlicheri in a 55 for a few months once and it was perfectly happy, active, and ate well
 
rope fish get bigger then 2 feet but a 50 would make a happy home for a rope fish some are bought when there as big as night crawlers and end up in 10 gallons
a wider tank would be better but it would be okay
 
yes its true ropefish can get bigger than 2ft in the wild, fishbase lists a max recorded size of ~3ft, but if you raise a juvy in captivity, chances are it won't hit the 2ft mark. even getting to 18" will take a very long time.
 
Thanks all... Apperciate all the info I recieved on this. Wanted to make sure I could properly house a rope. Before I went out and got another one. Now that I know my tank is capable. The next step is to make it escape proof this time around. Don't want a repeat of what happened to my last rope...Dam it sux finding my man slim like that lifeless and all covered in cat hair behind the tank... If anybody has any suggestions and/are experience on the best way to do this I'd be most thankful for some advice on it... My tank has two 30-60g external filters.
 
use some aluminum window screening and glue or silicon it to the tank over every last hole, make srue you get every nook and cranny that he could squeeze out of, and even the ones you think he couldn't squeeze out of.
 
Yeah thats bout what I was thinking. Have a spare screen out in my shed so think I will go that route... Is this what you did and your rope still managed to escape somehow?
 
well i did a half-ass job on mine because i didn't think it would be that great of an excape artist, but these are. he jumped out though my filter.
 
Regular houndinas thats for sure... Think its a good way to do it. But has you said in your prior post. seal every nook and cranny leaving nothing to chance.
 
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