Yea but that’s a fish I don’t own and I’ve heard it’s hard to find a jag cat so just making a plan b
75g!!!!!
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Flpwerhorn and black belt couldn’t go together in this size tank. Not enough room to escape when one ultimately wins. Each fish claims a territory much larger than the tank itself, and won’t like any intruders.
Well good morning to you too deadeye ?? and yea I’ve been up all night thinking of plans for the 75g and or course reading a bunch of old green arrow comics lol. But if housed together when the flowerhorn is smaller but will grow to be more aggressive and ye blackbelt is bigger and has never shown sign of aggression would there maybe be some type of olive branch between them at some point. The small one knows the big ones mean so doesn’t mess with it but the big one knows the small one is also mean but maybe if homed together at sizes where one is smaller or larger than the other maybe they could figure something out
I’ve read of truces, but something bad usually always happens. Especially with flowerhorns. They seemed to inherit all of the red devil aggression but with no limit on it. They kill tanks like a dovii. Typically once everything is looking peaceful, one of them goes killing overnight. You can try to separate when the fighting gets bad, but by the time you see, something is going to die. These are two of the meanest cichlids out there, much less forgiving than jacks or oscars or even green terrors.
I’ll try the housing for a while and hope for the best and whatever happens happens. Flowerhorn is young and cheap and pet store has hundreds of them. Not saying I think it’s okay for it to die I’m saying if worse comes to worse and if the black belt dies then I’ll be very sad but continue with the tank. That is worse case scenario. If I see any aggression when young I will separate I want that to be clear.
Welp wish me luck soldier. I’m not set on it it’s just another idea. It would crowd the tank though
If they can just get a little olive branch between them then it’ll all be dandy but I doubt fish are going to want to sign that
Why not the flower horn and 2 lower jaw bichirs like delhezi or senegalus? Idt flower horn would bother the bichirs (bottom dwellers), but if a black belt I think there would be aggression. Your flower horn isn’t that large now hence not showing much aggression, but once it grows bigger I think it would become more territorial. When my arowana was small at around 4-6 inch, it was peaceful and calm, but once it grew larger it attacked my peacock bass and gar. I think the same thing would happen with ur fish as well.
My arowana has always been peaceful up to 13 inches has only ever ate one fish and it was a dead clown loach. And bullseye the rtc hybrid yesterday swam up to the top to eat pellets when he could have easily ate the sun cat that’s 1/3 his size but didn’t
