Today, I bought my last albino iridescent shark, decide to release to my pond, my pond has 2 oscars, 3-4 silver barbs, 1 sultan fish and some kois, I think no fish will hurt him, oscars has almost the same size as him
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Salton is one of the common names under which Brachyplatistoma capapretum is sometimes sold in the USA, which is a predatory catfish and its size relative to the size of the IDS determines the chances of a successful predatory attack or even a try.
What species are the fish you are calling "silver barbs"?
Equal length oscars to the IDS length would concern me a little bit too because IDS is a long and thin fish but oscars are beefier.
What species are the fish you are calling "silver barbs"?
Equal length oscars to the IDS length would concern me a little bit too because IDS is a long and thin fish but oscars are beefier.
I think you live in Asia? Where these types of fish are plentiful and very cheap?
Why don't you buy 60cm size fish? They are much tougher and calmer when bigger. 1M size even better.
And get a school, maybe 6 or 12 fish.
Why don't you buy 60cm size fish? They are much tougher and calmer when bigger. 1M size even better.
And get a school, maybe 6 or 12 fish.
the sultan fish i called is L.Rubripinna, Silver barbs are Barbonymus Gonionotus
If these two kinds of cyprinids are of comparable size to the IDS, I'd think chances are the IDS is safe, as long as everyone is not hungry. These cyprinids - red fin cigar sharks and silver / java barbs - can be opportunistic and if hungry may attack the little, fragile, skittish, and vulnerable IDS.