Aggressive eaters for 40 breeder aquarium recommendations
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Exodons is what you get when you add the teeth and aggression of a piranha to a tetra. Get a lot to spread aggression out amongst the group.
Honduran Redpoints. Mine divebomb the surface and throw water everywhere. They bang into each other grabbing pellets! A few will bang their heads on the glass.
I had a group of Belonesox belizanus in a 40b that I used for culls in my fish room. I started with a group of 6 but as they grew I ended up with 2 females and 1 male who started to spawn in the tank. This picture below isn’t mine.
Exodons are great but I’m not sure if there’s enough room to keep the shoal from killing each other.
Red wolf fish gets my vote - mine will destroy anything that hits the water and is quite an interactive fish (unlike piranhas).
Red wolf fish gets my vote - mine will destroy anything that hits the water and is quite an interactive fish (unlike piranhas).
To me a 40 breeder is only large enough for species that get no larger than 4 inches.
So (depending on what your water hardness and pH are?)
Because my water is hard, with higher pH (8.2) I prefer to use Astyanax , or Roeboides tetras as dither species.
Roiboides above, Astyanax below.
If your water is soft, with lower pH, you have, many, many other species from Amazonia to choose from
So (depending on what your water hardness and pH are?)
Because my water is hard, with higher pH (8.2) I prefer to use Astyanax , or Roeboides tetras as dither species.
Roiboides above, Astyanax below.
If your water is soft, with lower pH, you have, many, many other species from Amazonia to choose from
Don't laugh. Giant Danios.
I know Giant Danios aren't much to look at as juveniles, but when they reach adulthood they blossom into colorful eating machines.
I keep 18 of them in a 120 g. long where they beat the tar out of Tiger Barbs and Buenos Aires Tetras.
At feeding time the Danios swarm at unbelievable speed. I have to grossly overfeed just to make sure enough food reaches the bottom level for the Loaches.
I know Giant Danios aren't much to look at as juveniles, but when they reach adulthood they blossom into colorful eating machines.
I keep 18 of them in a 120 g. long where they beat the tar out of Tiger Barbs and Buenos Aires Tetras.
At feeding time the Danios swarm at unbelievable speed. I have to grossly overfeed just to make sure enough food reaches the bottom level for the Loaches.