are fly river turles aggresive and allowed to have tank mates.

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dang, I'm so confused and PO'ed. LOLs. i was going to get a FRT cuz they looked cool and it was so cheap (200 dollar IDK the quality). it all started when i asked some fellow MFK'er if I could keep fish with a kind of turtle. half of them told me that a FRT is a good idea with fish. now after researching alot more about FRTs, it says that they will kill eat out and mulitate fish!!! i don't whos right!!!:nilly::nilly:. i want a FRT so bad especially in the exclusive price BUT I am 99% sure i'm am NOT going to sell my precious bichirs away!! I am a dedicated fish keeper and i am not giving in for a turtle (no offence)!! LOL! what should I do. Can i some how pellet train him to become less aggresive?? tips?? i trained my wolf fish in not being aggresive by givinh him a strict diet of shrimp and pellets! I still want the FRT BADLY!!!

thanks
 
Ok to make it easier to answer. choose one of the followings:

1. Super aggresive to own kind and ANY fish.
2. super aggresive to own king and SLOW fish
3. can be trained to be peaceful. How??
4. Just a plain killer
5. peaceful
6. Is mainly peaceful but cab turn rogue. how??
7. depends on personnaly or gender.
8. depends on size or age.
9. etc. list it.
 
Most become more aggressive as they become older. When small, most get along fine with tank mates. As mine got bigger he turned on everything in the tank. It was mostly fish I was not concerned about, but it still sucked. Fast fish, slow fish, everything was fair game. He got most of them while they were sleeping. If you value your fish, I would not do it.
 
Haven't you already been told your tank is too small for even a small FRT?

If you want to keep a turtle with fish look into Stinkpots, they should be fine with your Bichirs.

A FRT is NOT a beginner turtle, and is a protected species. It is not right to get one when you do not have the proper means to care for it. FRT would be fine with most cichlids (probably), but I would think your bichirs would be too slow and wind up as dinner
 
It depends on the turtle. I have own 2 FRT, one was about 10" shell and the other was small, about 5" shell. I tried 2 keep both together but the small would always nip at the larger turtle and the bigger one would bite it back in return. I had the larger one in my main tank and it never bite or chased anything in the tank, but it would only chase the smaller FRT. The smaller was a different story, it was fin nipper. I had it with my discus and it would always nip the fins. Just depends, Just buy it and see how it works out. $200 for FRT is very good deal. For price that cheap just buy it and go from there. Ended up selling both of them.
 
can you train your FRT to become "nonaggresive" and ignore the other fish (bichir in my case)???? or is it natural instincts and the frt will kill them. Do they just attack fish for sport or is it because it is hungrey??? to decrease kill rate, should I put a divider every night/day depending when the frt is the most active???

thanks.
 
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