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hi there im soon to set up an 84 gallon tank with aload of white cloud mountain minnows in there, (about 200) and i was wondering what is the smallest and most mild tempered arowana? i know silvers get huge and nasty, so...
i can upgrade to a 7X2X2 if i need to thanks for your time :D :D :feedback: :woot: :headbang2
 
silvers get massive fast
aussies are ill tempered (typically) but slightly smaller
asains are expensive.

I wouldnt bother with putting one in an 84 gallon tank...start with the bigger one:)
 
i have raised many silvers and actually have babys right now and i never feed my aros live fish and i have a couple large aros in with some relatively small fish but white clouds are really small i would not trust them with fish that small if you 2 try though i would suggest weaning your aros off live food (except crickets) while they are small and introducing your other small fish while the aro is small and give the white clouds tons of cover but would not suggest
 
thanks for your ideas so far, can any one help me with ideas for tank mates, im limited to the 84 gal atm, but i would upgrade , still whats with the black aro? is that any good?
 
i mean i was talkin to my freind that worked at chester zoo about 10 years ago, and they had a 6 foot silver aro, and it nearly took a freind of his hand off...
 
6 foot silver aro? Sure it was not an arapaima? :D

6 foot would have to be a world record. I've seen photos of 4 footers.

Any aro would be too big for an 84 gallon unfortunely, and silvers are generally quite tame, it's jardinis that are bastards.
 
blacks are basically darker finned silvers.
 
yeah six foot your friend likes to tell "fish stories" biggest ever recorded as far as i know was 52" thats not the 72" your friend claims but your tank should b as wide as your aro and atleast 3 times his length many different fish can b put in with aros in my 110 gallon i have 1-20" silver 1-12" silver 1-19" clown knife 1-16" pleco 1-22" ropefish 1-24" snowflake eel 1-10" violet goby 1-7" lace catfish 1-7" senegal bichir and 1-8" jack dempsey, now they are overcrowded and i am moving them into one of my indoor ponds in the basement but my aro is to big for this tank right now. in my baby aro pond (180gallon) i have 23 baby silver aros and about 100 zebra danios and cherry barbs (these fish where put in here to help the bacteria grow before i added the babys and i only added ten of the danios and ten of the barbs but in the pond they bred like mad) they dont get eaten but they might when the babies get big enough
 
well i wouldnt kno wat he was saying was true or not, but could i start with a juv in the 84 gal then upgrade to the 7 footer later on?
 
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