Any Pacu Fans?

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vivid930

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I have 4 year old pacu, and I have just moved him to a 90 gallon tank. He's all by himself, and not liking it. His girlfriend died durring apower outage earlier this year and I am contemplating getting him a buddy, maybe an oscar. I've had no success with putting any small fish in the tank with him, he just eats them. I'd love your thougths and suggestions on getting him a buddy. He's a little bigger than 1 foot long.
 
I've heard oscars do well with Pacu. But all personalities are different with oscars, some might get along and some might be aggressive. However your current tank is already WAY overstocked (Pacu's need 300-400 gallons per fish!) so you might want to tape a mirror to the side so he thinks there is another fish in the tank.. What size tank was he in before?
 
I agree with beno, but if you're going for a big tank I'd go ahead and get an Oscar. Also I'd get a smaller Oscar than the Pacu just to play it on the safe side. I've seen videos showing the two beat the daylights out of each other, mainly the Oscar on the Pacu.
 
I've done alot of research and everything I have read has said the red bellied pacu only needs 75-90 gallons. Its is the black fin pacu that needs 300. I have a red belly. An oscar will get too big, I'm looking for something that doesn't get bigger than 10 inches. He just moved over from a 35 to a 90 gallon, and i just don't have the space or $$ for anything bigger. I have double the filtration rate for a 90 gallon going with two emperor biowheel 400s and a 600 biowheel hood, totaling about 1200 gph, and so far he's doing great. I like the Mirror idea though, I'll try it.
 
vivid930;1855076; said:
I've done alot of research and everything I have read has said the red bellied pacu only needs 75-90 gallons. Its is the black fin pacu that needs 300. I have a red belly. An oscar will get too big, I'm looking for something that doesn't get bigger than 10 inches. He just moved over from a 35 to a 90 gallon, and i just don't have the space or $$ for anything bigger. I have double the filtration rate for a 90 gallon going with two emperor biowheel 400s and a 600 biowheel hood, totaling about 1200 gph, and so far he's doing great. I like the Mirror idea though, I'll try it.
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You've been researching in the wrong places. Red pacu will get close to 3ft.. black pacu get close to 4ft..
 
the person who told you that they only need a 90 gallon tank does not know what they are talking about, he needs atleast a 220 at this ize but even that wont last him his whole life
 
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