Aethiopicus with tankmates?

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Works great. As long as you don't care about the tankmates.

Try a colony of tilapia or convicts as self refilling feeders.
 
shipmonkey said:
Works great. As long as you don't care about the tankmates.

Try a colony of tilapia or convicts as self refilling feeders.
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A colony of tilapia will kill the lungfish regardless of the lungfish size especially nile tilapia. Tilapia loves to eat the lungfish skin. I had a group of nile tilapia and blue tilapia as feeders for my lungfish. Lungfish was a 36" congo marble lungfish. First 2 weeks was fine till the tilapias got comfortable and develop a taste for lungfish skin.

Never mix any opportunistic herbivorous fish with any lungfish species. Lungfish may be known for killing fish but lungfish will stop killing it's tankmates if the lungfish is the one who is being pick on. Fish such as giant gouramis, distochodus, veija cichlids and tilapia or other herbivorous fish must not be with a lungfish of any species. Although I said "Herbivorous" which are plant eater, when it comes to lungfish skin, they may think it probably taste like plant matter to them.
 
I never a problem with the Mozambique Tilapia I kept with my last WAL. They coexisted for several years before I had to sell the tank when I moved. The same tank actualy had a small school of distochodus affinis in it too, the lung never seemed to be able to get a hold of those.
 
I say yes. I have a marbled lungfish with an aro, ckf, ray, oscar, fire eel, and lima shovelnose with zero problems. Hes the most peaceful fish ive owned.

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can i ask something?how about south american lungfish?can they be mixed with other fish?which one is more aggressive?south american or marbled?
 
South americans are the most community compatable in my experience but even they should be kept alone so they can find food easier and be in peace. All lungs are very placid, somewhat slow at finding food and will take the opportunity if it presents itself. Ive kept several different lungs in community settings for years and theyve all killed something, some more than others. For those of you who say "mines fine and peaceful" i promise you will find one of ur fish sliced in half or maimed beyond repair one day when u least expect it lol... i house mine alone now and it is better for the lungs and everyone else :).

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