Arowana and Jack Dempsey

[sbrodacz]

I just purchased a baby Arowana. It should be here Tuesday. Their shipping him/her out Monday overnight. I really like Jack Dempsey fish. Their are a bunch of babies on aquabid. Can I have an Arowana and a Jack Dempsey together. If the Dempsey is to small, I can keep him in my 20 gallon until he's a little larger. I just wanted to Make sure in the long run they'd be ok together.

 

[ucng]

what kind of arow are you getting?

 

[nubz]

a big JD is really beligerent.but so is a aro sooo... ask someone else.

 

[ucng]

it probably wont work in my opinion

 

[sbrodacz]

It's a silver aro.

LOL thanks Nubz

 

[sbrodacz]

If it won't work, it won't work. I just want to make sure before I get the Jack Dempsey. I don't know why, but I love that fish but arowanas are arowanas. Enough said.

 

[sbrodacz]

Any other opinions?

 

[ericifish]

Try it. People can give you their opinions all day long but you don't really know untill they are in the same tank. I say go for it

 

[sbrodacz]

That's true. If worse comes to worse I'll put the dempesy in the 20 gallon and when he's too big I'll figure another solution out.

 

[Bderick67]

Ya try it out if one of the fish kills the other you can always buy another, right?

IME baby aros should be raised solitary upto 5-6" and then only very select none aggressive tankmates until 10-11". When keeping aro with SA/CA cichlids the aro should be 2x the length of the cichlid.