Any ancient fish/oddballs to go with my cichlids

[zackj8]

Any ancient fish/oddballs can i keep with my cichlids i've tried arrowana and polyterus they just rip up the cichlids
The cichlids are O's ,Jd's,RT,GT,Blk belt,plecs and syno
I was thinking of an eel may be

 

[haynchinook334]

How big is the set up?

 

[zackj8]

Theres either a 250g community with the fish listed or a 350g parachromis tank

 

[zackj8]

I don't want it to grow bigger than a ft though

 

[abarilot]

They beat them up that bad. Well if your cichlids arent too aggressive I'd try a Black Ghost knifefish. I love my SA Lungfish but they do get bigger than a foot and I'd worry about your cichlids tearing off its fins

 

[N.C.]

try a ropefish i kept mine with an oscar and a jag before or maybe a gar

 

[zackj8]

Aren't rope fish just like poly's though

 

[Morledzep]

i've kept silver arowana with Oscars.. actually my big aro and one of my oscars live together currenty.. along with a black ghost knife, and a clown knife and a hybrid MRTC.

i've never seen any of my silver arowanas harass or damage any cichlids in any of my tanks. right now in a 60 gallon grow out tank, i have 3 silver aros, 3 cichla ocellaris, 2 P. Altum angelfish, and 1 red bay snook. there is a little bit of chasing and pushing going on because they need bigger diggs pretty quick, but no one is damaging anyone else.

 

[zackj8]

Don't arro's get to like 1metre though

 

[jordanlewis100]

i've tried keeping oddballs with centrals before and the cichlids keep on harassing them ! imo your better off keeping the cichlids in a seperate tank,on the plus side i have seen it done successfully but you will need many hundreds of gallons to give everyone the space they need