Exodon Paradoxus

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starrfish71

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does any one keep these? Has anyone on MFk bred them? Kept them with other fish?

Everything I've read says a minimum of a 55gal tank, school of at least 12, and could be kept with silver dollars, and catfish. Is putting them in a tank with Half grown SA/CA cichlids not a good idea? ( the cichlids in question are all 2-3 inches, the tetras I'm considering all looked to be less than 2 inches)

I had a small school in the past ( five fish) but they killed each other off within a few months. Other than their temperment, I didn't think they were hard to keep.

Looking for advice/experience here....
 
I have kept them in the past. I kept mine with red belly piranha they did fine together but I have a feeling if the piranha had gotten full size i would have had problems. They prefer to eat the scales of other fish.As a rule with putting smaller fish with cichlids if it fits in a cichlids mouth it will probably end up there. You may have luck with some smaller cichlids but i couldn't say for sure as the exodons are rather aggressive and may bully anything small enough to be kept with them.

Either way GL and if it where me i would stick to a species tank for those guys
 
i say get 20 to 30 and put them in your tank they will ok i hand 100 in a 110 long they were fine just feed them 2 times a day
 
Get 20 or 30 of them?! Wow that can get pricey, ive seen em as low as 5-10 bucks. I would defienitley want that many in a tank, they look awesome in a large group.
 
yeah- even just 12 will cost me $100- they're $8 here. The cichlids in question could NEVER fit them in their mouths- it's severums and nicarguesnsis-
I might give it a try- I plan to have a tank just for them in the future, but can't seem to find the tank I want-

i guess If I purchase them and they start tearing up my sev's, I'll have to get a tank...and I'd probably need to set up a feeder tank....
 
i wouldn't put them with anything...i had mine with pirahnas and it didn't work so well... at first the exodons would constantly attack the red bellies then the red bellies began to grow at a much faster rate and ended up eating all 5 of my exodons...i had 3 red bellies and 5 exodons
 
exos can be very aggressive. I have 10 of them with 2 eclipse catfish and a hujeta gar. They don't bother the catfish, but once in a while will nip a the gar the is 3 times there size. Exos will eat any fish smaller than them. I mostly feed my exos flakes, pellets, rosy reds and frozen foods. Once in a while I will throw in goldfish for the gar that are the same size as the exos and they will kill it just for fun.
 
I keep a school of nine. It used to be ten but that number was not working for them so they killed the tenth member!:ROFL: I love these guys. I just keep them as a show p in a planted tank of mine. They are a very social fish if you take the time to really watch them. Always interacting with eack other. My shoal is a very tight nit group and they will not tolorate any other fish in the tank. They have even taken on a RedTerror 6'' and a Dorado when he was about 5'' that I put in there once. The only fish that they will leave alone is my juvii Fuhaka puffer that is growing out in there until he graduates to his own tank. There seems to be a mutual respect there!:D
 
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