Anyone mixed a Wolf with a Flower Horn?

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I'm going to be setting up a 4x2x2 120 gallon soon, and I was thinking of putting My 12+" common wolf with my ?" Flower Horn (I don't know how big he actually is because he's in my 1/2 circle tank and the visual is all distorted).

My hope is that the Wolf will stay on the bottom (as he has done all his life) and the FH will occupy the upper level of the tank. I underestimated the FH when he was younger, and he killed about 6-7 similarly sized baby cichlids. Since then, he's been alone. As evil as he seems to be, I doubt he's a match for the Wolf.

Anyone had any luck keeping aggressive cichlids with their common wolves?

Any input is appreciated,
John
 
It won't work, your FH will come out and look for a fight with the wolf...the rest you already knew :)
*Your FH is meant nothing to a wolf :) few bites from a wolf your FH will be a history.
 
Dead FH :(
 
That flower is about to get plucked!
 
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All right, any ideas for upper level fish then? I would try a gar, but I'd rather have something that won't break its back if the wolf startles it. I saw a youtube video of a guy who had two northern pike with his wolf, but I'm not getting a fish that's going to grow 4' long for my 120 gallon.

In the past, the only fish my Wolf has bothered have been ones that invade his space: the bottom of the tank. He used to occasionally chomp my 20" clown knife for resting too close, and the flat out murdered a RTC that was a few inches longer than him too. He never bothered my Odoe or any of my Arowanas though.

Maybe a school of some type of Payara? Scombs or Tats (not that I'd be able to find that many tats)
 
Most might disagree with me, but I've had luck with cichlids and my common hoplias that I've had. That was all I kept with them, wolves being my only oddball because they're my favorite. I've never had a flowerhorn. But I've kept my wolf with jags, buttis, oscars, Midas, Red Devils, midevil, maybe I was just lucky though, you can't really say till you try it, I say set the tank up give it hiding spots on each side of the tank and in the center a big piece of drift wood. Pay attention to them the first day, and hope throughout the night the wolf doesn't do nothing, in the morning you may see something you don't like or you may not. I say give it a go if you really want to comm them. If not well then you decide whether or not you'd like to take the risk. I'd give it a go if it were me and I wanted to see them together, but I'm not into cichlids much anymore other than jags. But introduce the, at the same time. If your fh has been without tankmates I say it's highly unlikely to work. But it might.
 
johnnytaboo said:
I'm going to be setting up a 4x2x2 120 gallon soon, and I was thinking of putting My 12+" common wolf with my ?" Flower Horn (I don't know how big he actually is because he's in my 1/2 circle tank and the visual is all distorted).

My hope is that the Wolf will stay on the bottom (as he has done all his life) and the FH will occupy the upper level of the tank. I underestimated the FH when he was younger, and he killed about 6-7 similarly sized baby cichlids. Since then, he's been alone. As evil as he seems to be, I doubt he's a match for the Wolf.

Anyone had any luck keeping aggressive cichlids with their common wolves?

Any input is appreciated,
John
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I tried it with a full grown Flowerhorn and a medium sized Curupira (black wolf) and the result was disastrous. The wolf actually attacked the flowerhorn first without any provocation and relentlessly chased the FH. I had to fish the FH out and take it back k to the LFS I bought it at. I eventually ended up trading the black wolf for a GATF.
 
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