Anyone have any suggestions that I haven't come up with? The tank is a 100G 72x18x19. Currently houses:albino senegal, 2x p. polli, 2 delhezi, ornatipinnis, 3 ropefish, african knife, and an elephant nose. I realize the ornate will get larger than the tank, but thats little ways out. I am trying to do an African oddball theme. I am planning black sand substrate, driftwood, a few rocks, and some anubias and other african plants (still trying to decide.) I have a ABF in my 29 waiting to put on some size and plan on picking up some ctenopoma acutirostre in the next week to grow out and put in. Are there any other real oddballs that would fit in with this arrangement? Any suggestions at all. I had thought about an African Aro or H. Odoe, but those are still only in the research stage.
African oddballs
- Thread starter jdryden
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African butterfly fish.. Im not too sure if they would be ok in ur tank, but they r really cool fish..
Bogwoodbruce;1330837; said:
Do you know how an elephant nose would do with other morymids like the dolphins or baby whale? I'm going for a variety if possible.
Baby whale IMO is extremely territorial. I had one in muy 90g & the next day he was in 1/2 the tank & all the other fish were cowering in the other 1/2. You might want to look up the adult sizes of all the fish you are interersted in. Sounds like too much eventual bioload for a 100g. Personally, I wouldn't purchase any fish you can't house for life. It can be quite difficult to find a home for a huge fish & then it will suffer. I wouldn't mix morymids either.
I do research the overall size before buying to the best of my ability (thats why alot of the lower jaw poly's aren't on my list even though I REALLY want them). The only one that I didn't was the ornate, which was my second poly. I have no probs with upgrading to a larger tank in a year or two. (the wife is after my 100 gallon right now for her turtles) I had thought I had read that the baby whales were territorial, but the LFS said no probs (I didn't buy him or the fish), thats why I came here to ask. Wasn't sure how morymids would mix, it seems like there are different experiences between everyone.
Well, I do have a pair (?) of elephant noses that lived 17 1/2 years together in a 30g tank. I now have them in a 125g & they do scrap quite a bit but nothing bad. I don't think it's the best idea to miz different species of these though.