Can this fish live with a severum, leopard ctenopoma, clown loaches, fire eel, blood red parrot and black ghost knife for life?
Ctenolucius hujeta (Rocket Gar)
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Well I don't know my cichlids real well but I would venture to say the severum would be an issue. I have heard they are docile as far as cichlids go but I would bet he would mess with a similar sized silvery fish. I have a blood parrot and he messes with a similar sized bala quite a bit and blood parrots might be the calmest of the cichlids. Clown loaches are fine unless ridiculously small, things tend to ignore these guys it seems. Leopard ctenopoma, I fear for it's safety from all these fish, it will die for sure. Ghost knife could also be an issue, may be fine if they grow up together. I'm not sure if they get more agressive with age but they seem fairly lax. Fire eel could definiley eat him. If they were in a monster tank and the hujeta could acheive it's 26"
or so potential and fire eel at 36" it would be fine. It seeems fire eels still grow quite large in restrictive space but hujeta do not and may stay 9-12" while the fire could be 30" in the same tank. Hujeta are very skittish and I fear putting them with my blood parrot and they suicide nose bonking the glass. This combo would take an enormous tank anyway, 250g bare minimum. Without the fire eel smaller tank would do. I'm not an expert so experiment if you must, Good Luck!
or so potential and fire eel at 36" it would be fine. It seeems fire eels still grow quite large in restrictive space but hujeta do not and may stay 9-12" while the fire could be 30" in the same tank. Hujeta are very skittish and I fear putting them with my blood parrot and they suicide nose bonking the glass. This combo would take an enormous tank anyway, 250g bare minimum. Without the fire eel smaller tank would do. I'm not an expert so experiment if you must, Good Luck!
Thanks! My fire eel is very mellow. My severum is only two inches and the eel is 10 inches. It doesn't touch the severum. My leopard ctenopoma will grow to about 8 inches. Also, the tank size is 180 gallons. How large do you think this hujeta will grow in this size tank?
The eel would eventually eat the hujeta. IMO
Since there are a few fire eel owners on this site that have specimens in the 30" range and as big around as a pop can.
If you can find a few sub adult 8-10" specimens then they may have a chance. But if you introduce the normal 2-4" LFs bought juvie hujeta they won't last long.
Since there are a few fire eel owners on this site that have specimens in the 30" range and as big around as a pop can.
If you can find a few sub adult 8-10" specimens then they may have a chance. But if you introduce the normal 2-4" LFs bought juvie hujeta they won't last long.
I beleive the hujeta would not exceed much more than 16" but only a guess. Most people stunt them down in 4 ft tanks so 10" is usually max but 180g could provide a large characin. The leopard ctenopoma are one of my favorites, I would just hate to put him in this situation. I really like your fish choices, you may get lucky and have a harmonious tank but know what you may be getting into. It may be a territorial bump here and there and that be the extent of it. But if the territorial bump comes the Hujeta's way it's a missle launch confined in a glass box. One of the greatest things about a fish tank is how you choose to populate it. It is nice when things go well when they are almost destined to be chaos. I have seen many a predator nurse their prey. If this works it could be a very nice combo of fish so go with the gut. I love playing outside the guidelines of caresheets and "expert" advice but governed by some reason of course. It may take also bigger tank in the end to make this work though.
Thanks! I asked in another post on this thread if a distichodus or flagtail would work with my tank. I want to choose 2 out of the three fish if possible. If I only have room for one, will any of these three work: Distichodus, hujeta or flagtail?
What type of Distichodus, fei feng (flagtail) would be better than Hujeta i think. I would possibly consider a Datnoid, they are tough cookies and but grow quite large. Dat's are very nice looking and I hear they are very rewarding to own. I would look for a NTT, Northern Thailand Tiger (Thinbar Tiger) or an Indo tiger. Siamese are great but very hard but may be the best of the datnoids. The Silver american dat is easiest ot find and would also be suitable.
I think it would be a very nice addition for most of your stock. I feel the blood parrot will see some harassment from the severum, and datnoid and could be eaten by the fire eel. The leopard will be eaten or killed almost positively by several candidates. I think any of the dat's except the Silver would be perfect. The silver I forget is the one that needs brackish conditions. The distichodus sexfasciatus is usually a tyrant and doesn't have the looks of the datnoid. They look similar in color but the distichodus sexfasciatus fades like clown loaches with age and doesn't have the great profile of the datnoid.