Any advise welcome, I have 9 tanks and have been keeping fish a long time, I lost my 18 inch Arowana a month ago, Iam thinking of adding a jardini Arowana to one of my tanks to replace the silver Arowana, as I love Arowana's, the tank Iam thinking of adding the jardini to has a 9inch disc stingray in a 6 inch peacock bass and 10X 5inch dollars and a 6 inch African tiger fish ,, the jardini is about 10 inch ,, any advise on this is welcome
adding jardini arowan
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Most of the time Jardini don't play nice and end up harming anything else in the tank. I would advise against it based off of what I've read about and seen.
Jardini is a trouble maker, as soon it established in your tank your Tiger fish would get kill first or get eaten cause the jar grow rate is 2x faster than the tiger. The Jar is 10 inches now and 6 months later it will get 16~18 inches in a large tank while your tiger fish barely hit 9 inches, I just base off my own experience and depend on each own fish personality thing might not turn bad as it look, prediction but for the most part it is bad 
Yer I know growth rate is slow on tiger I was going to take him out,, hard decision,, but I suppose I already new the answer to my question before I asked it, I was hoping someone would say it would be okay, but at the end of the day Iam not going risk my fish in this tank as I have had them from babies,, thanks for comments
Well, you will have another issue there lol
The Gar (depend on species) might slice him in half
I have seen a Aligator Gar slice a 16 inches fish in half for snack hehehe
Lol, gar was a rescue fish that I have had for over a year and has part of his jaw missing,, I couldn't leave him in the 80litre tank he was in so I brought him home, he won't be slicing any thing in half,, he is happy to go about his business and not bother other fish,,, lol
While I agree with the sentiments expressed above, for fairness sake it appears one should state that some jardini have been reported to live a lot more peacefully with tank mates than others. Overall, a gamble, sure. Neither do I know how this pays out long term. But we are talking large, mature jardini.
Surely tank size matters. The bigger the tank, the lesser the chances of big and sudden problems.
If you have rehoming options, it could be tried very carefully, albeit I'd agree with you that if you are so attached to the fish that are there already, I'd not test my luck.
Surely tank size matters. The bigger the tank, the lesser the chances of big and sudden problems.
If you have rehoming options, it could be tried very carefully, albeit I'd agree with you that if you are so attached to the fish that are there already, I'd not test my luck.
I tried to keep one from a baby with Central Americans, he was fine until about 10 or 11" then he patrolled the whole tank even going under & through rock work, he decided he would kill the silver dollars 4" ones and wouldn't stop, so it's a gamble. Jardini was nothing like my silver Arowana at all.