is it true that you could keep some with pikes?...i was also wondering could you keep dwarf cichlids like rams with them?
thanks
matt
thanks
matt
cory cats w/ pikes?
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anything that cannot be made food or bullied to bad due to body mass, but also depends on individual personality of the pike cichlid. mine beat up an oscar of the same size as him only more body mass
Dwarf pikes can be kept with other dwarf cichlids, I have kept mine with both Laetacara dorsigera and Microgeophagus sp. before without incidents. Am now trying dwarf african rams as well.
I have had the dwarves kill cories in smaller tanks (20 long), but brochis species in larger tanks have done fine.
I have had the dwarves kill cories in smaller tanks (20 long), but brochis species in larger tanks have done fine.
cories? hell no thats what mine is.... he can eat goldfish if i really tried to feed em to em hed eventually get ahold of them cuz when i feed mine he searchs the whole tank, floor, inbetween leaves on plants everywhere possible for food and if he was hungry enuf and saw a lil fish scurry across the bottom hed attack it but i do have a bumble bee jelly catfish (its name of catfishplanet.com) was labeled as bumble bee catfish at the lfs neways hes bout 3 inchs long and doesnt get messed with he didnt get messed with when he was about 2 inchs long ether but idk u could just give it a try im sure if u had hidin spots they could clean the tank with ease at night tho
An adult sveni would make a meal of even a brochis ... at least it would try, I imagine the brochis' spines would get caught in the throat, and you'd end up with a dead sveni. I deffinately wouldn't try it.
yeah thats what i was thinking..i just read an article awhile back and it said that it might work but, i dont want to risk it
Adult wild-caught specimens would possibly recognize the danger of eating a cory, but that still doesn't guarantee anything. There's nothing worse then cutting a catfish into pieces in order to remove it, in an attempt to save the would be predator. I no longer keep catfish with predatory fish, unless there is no chance the predator could fit ANY part of the cat in it's mouth.
Don't keep any of the cories, dwarfs, or tetras really with anything except for the dwarf pikes. The Saxatilis, Acutirostris, Reticulatus, and Lugubris group pikes all get tooo large. You'll just end up with either missing fish or a dead pike. 