Asian RTC recommended tank size?

[xApostle]

Personally, the only way I'd want anything to do with this fish is if it was on the other end of my Penn Spinfisher 750. I personally don't see the point in a fish that gets that big that is that antisocial. You'd need a tank comparable to arapaimag's setup in order for that fish to play nice!

ahhh, I think, based on what ive been told here, ill give the artc a miss! in the future I was thinking of building a 10' x 5' for a RTCxTSN hybrid. Would that accommodate?

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[MonsterMinis]

imho no. our 10' diam pool isn't a large enough footprint imo to even try it. It seems like a lot but when they start hitting 2'+ there really isn't enough "private space" even then for big cats. and with the ARTC's rep even less of a reason to chance it... But on that note the aba aba knife has a similar rep and a few people have housed them in community set-ups ( JDM style and personally not my idea of ethical fishkeeping ie stuff a bunch of big fish in a tank thats large enough to house them as adults... but overstock the crap out of it. much as you see done w/ African cichlids sometimes. So nobody can claim a territory but every now and then the lowest fish on the totem pole gets whacked because of the constant vieing for territory.)

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Under good conditions this hybrid will reach 3.5' faster, in ~3-5 years. Should reach 4' in 10-20 years. About the same space requirements as for ARTC, IMO.

 

[xApostle]

a 10' x 5' x 5' would come to 1485 gallons.
With just one RTCxTSN hybrid. If this is to small, what would the appropriate dimensions be? what if I wanted to add tankmates? Sorry for all the questions but I am truly curious haha

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[bigpac]

If ur gonna keep it for life ur gonna want more than 1500 one of my lfs had a 4'x2' rtc that was 13 years old named frankie was super awesome to check out but they had it in a 1500 gallon tank it out grew it granted it was an 8'x5'x10' tank it was super tall the stand was 3 1/2'-4' tall then the tank was like 12-15 foot tall but even then this didn't work for them and they donated it to a local wildlife world zoo as they call it they have a river monsters exhibit there only place I know of in az to have a school of huge pirhanas

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[xApostle]

ahh ok fair enough, what about length - 12' x width - 8' x 5' - height ?

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