Black ghost knife in a 125g??

[Kelly_Aquatics]

Hello I have a 125g with two oscars a common pleco and a pictus cat the pictus will be moved to a different tank
I want one more big fish for that tank and I really love the BGKs but would it work with my stocking and tank size it would be grown out until its bigger also the oscars are not aggresive they have never really attacked any fish they have been with

Thank

 

[Rocksor]

Time for another 125g. Put the BGK in the new 125g with the pleco and school of pictus... let the oscars have the current 125g

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

Rocksor I wish! lol sadly i can only get one right now so no? a 75g wont work long term right? what is the main problem aggression or bioload?

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

are their any other good alternitives that could work and why wont a BGK work just curious

 

[Hendre]

Oscars could easily bully a BGK out of food, and the knife gets too big for a 75

 

[fishhead0103666]

I’m not sure how clouded ghost knives compare to black ghost knives, https://www.aqua-imports.com/product/clouded-ghost-knifefish-adontosternarchus-nebulosus/ , however my cloudy got bullied out of its food by a baby platy. If those black are anything like my cloudy was then I wouldn’t put them in with anything that is aggressive with food or would outcompete them.

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

oh I was just thinking a well know youtuber dwdarius had one with pbass oscars red devils and pike cichlids he made a whole video on how to keep BGKs with big cichlids so I was thinking I could get it small raise it in a diffrent tank either by its self or with my dels get it hand feeding or taking food from tweezers and I know it would hide alot so during feeding time i would go to it and target feed heres the vid

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

would a afer knife get too big?

 

[Backfromthedead]

would a afer knife get too big?

Imo yes

 

[fishhead0103666]

Hey K krichardson you've kept p afer, what are your thoughts on tank size?