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Hello everybody,

I am new to fish keeping as I been viewing this website from time. and right now I am in the research stage of getting a tank and fish. I work in oil field 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. I live in Hot climate The temp could in summer reach 55c that is near the 120f mark. I live in apartment with my wife, when I am not here she would go to here parents house and come every couple of days to clean the house.

I been planning to get marine tank but then settled with fresh water. I was planning to buy a tank that is about 180cm in length but not sure about the capacity and width. I been thinking about the 2 austrilian or asian arowana but i feel they are abit hard fiah to take care especally when I am not around where there isnt supervision everyday or feeding. Also with there status that it endanger makes it harder. it tankmates could be clown knife fish or long fin oscar but also I am fine with only arowana in tank.

Please advice me if it possiable for me to take care of arowana with my job time table.
 
I'm going to say any fish is going to be hard to care for if there isn't always someone there to take care of and feed them... also, unless you have some sort of drip water changing system on your tank, 2weeks without water changes could cause some real problems in your tank if its for monster fish only...

The next problem is you will most likely need to run a chiller on your tank, especially if your expecting the tank temp would get above say around 28'C-30'C since even tropical fish have a limit to the amount of heat they can take before they become extremely stressed...

But thats just my opinion on your situation...
 
Its my opinion that a 180cm tank would be to small for an Arowana. A 180g(assuming tank is 6x2x2) would be barely big enough and the fish would potentially have difficulty turning around once it was full grown. A tank with a width of 30" may be better(6x2.5x2=224gal) but even still, a full grown Arowana has the potential to reach 36". A fish even two feet in length would seem cramped in a 180g, especially if it is a fast swimming fish by nature.
Also consider the feeding requirements for such a fish. Any fish of size will need a lot of food and it will need to eat at least every third day. Big fish create alot of waste as well so a very good filtration system will be needed. If your home is not cooled by air conditioning and the ambient temp in the house will be consistantly over 85F, as said before, a chiller may need to be used during the summer months.

Just my opinion.
 
I would advize to switch your choice in fish to something in the large mouth catfish family in the bottom of the tank and for movement and color add in tetras. reason catfish can go easy 2 to 3 days on a single feeding and tetras are great at picking off scraps.

The use of plant filtration will help with your water change problem. but the key is help It is not a solution

Due to the heat you will need a chiller and a water top off system
 
boldtogether said:
Its my opinion that a 180cm tank would be to small for an Arowana. A 180g(assuming tank is 6x2x2) would be barely big enough and the fish would potentially have difficulty turning around once it was full grown. A tank with a width of 30" may be better(6x2.5x2=224gal) but even still, a full grown Arowana has the potential to reach 36". A fish even two feet in length would seem cramped in a 180g, especially if it is a fast swimming fish by nature.
Also consider the feeding requirements for such a fish. Any fish of size will need a lot of food and it will need to eat at least every third day. Big fish create alot of waste as well so a very good filtration system will be needed. If your home is not cooled by air conditioning and the ambient temp in the house will be consistantly over 85F, as said before, a chiller may need to be used during the summer months.

Just my opinion.
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Thanks for you advice it looks like the arowanas are now out.

Are taking care of predetor fish are same as peaceful fish or harder?

What about discus and frontosa?
 
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