African Lungfish Tank Mates?
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At your own risk yes… some specimen are more tolerable than others. IME they start to get bitey around 24”-30”. I kept one with small fish for many years no problems. He cut large fish in half just the same tho. Not very often, but the risk is always there. As long as u know that and keep cheaper fish with it its doable.
IMO all fish are jumpers… i keep weights on all my lids. Keep ur water level down a bit to let the lung breath easy. It is possible to drown them.
Probably, I never seen my spotted raphael catfish and stingrays jump though. Hope they won't.
Stingrays can flying saucer right out lol…. Had one come up and over a center brace when trying to net it before. Buddy of mine also lost a really nice 4-5yr old ray that bailed out of a tank.
I have successfully kept large and small lungfish with multiple types of fish. It took some trial and error for sure. Lungfish don't seem to be "thinking animals", occasionally, they will lash out at tankmates with no provocation. Subsequently, the only fish I would say that don't work with any degree of certainty are lungfsh of similar size. They get along with other things for the most part, just not each other.
They will lash out indeed, if there's anything near their mouths. For the most part, they don't. Unless again, the tank mates are near the mouth of the lungfish.