Could a Rhom get eaten...

[Nabbig2]

Hmmmm. I wonder if you get an oscar, or some other fast growing fish, and a rhom at the same time and size, say about 3 inches, would the oscar probably try to eat the rhom after a year or two? If so, I guess you'd have to pick a rhom and it's tankmates pretty carefully.

 

[davo]

Well rhoms really are mainly kept as single specimens, not with tankmates.

 

[Nabbig2]

Yeah, I know. But I'm just wondering.

 

[sicxspeed]

I don't know if an oscar would eat the rhom, but if there was a size difference big enough, being that the rhoms do grow very slow, they may try to. The Rhom may end up killing the Oscar while they are young though. I know that if the oscar does not kill the rhom, as soon as the rhom can, it will kill the oscar

 

[Nabbig2]

I don't know if an oscar would eat the rhom, but if there was a size difference big enough, being that the rhoms do grow very slow, they may try to. The Rhom may end up killing the Oscar while they are young though. I know that if the oscar does not kill the rhom, as soon as the rhom can, it will kill the oscar

Really? I didn't know rhoms were that aggressive.

 

[sicxspeed]

Yes, Rhoms are solitary predators in nature and do not typically accept any tankmates, they will be either eaten or killed.

 

[sirasoni]

I don't think the oscar would last long enough to reach a size where it could eat the rhom

 

[Renteria]

I don't think the oscar would last long enough to reach a size where it could eat the rhom

 

[davo]

Really? I didn't know rhoms were that aggressive.

that is generally why they are kept singularly...

 

[Nabbig2]

Do you think a dovii would kill a rhom