Getting my Silver a tank mate... seeking advice for peaceful introduction

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Ok moved the silver to the sump.. enough space there for him to circle around.. it about 22" length and 18" width. I imagine that how they ship the fish also, hopefully he'll be OK by tomorrow when I will be returning him to the tank. Needed the flow in the sump for filtering and aeration. Covered with soft foam and then weighted down. He did tried to jump twice but seem settle now.

The two blacks are put in the tank.. one jumped out as I tried to move him, lucky I knew how to handle that.. use my t-shirt to capture and return him to the tank. They are not fighting as of now, I've been watching them for about an hour. Lights are now off. Crossing my fingers all is good. Hope to get some pictures once they are all settle in.

Thanks.
 
remove silver, rearrange, turn tank lights off for couple of days thats about all you can do... and Brian is right in a way too... they are going to fight lets get that clear... on first intro, until they structure a pack and when ever they decided to they are aros its what aro coms are.... WAR.... thats y greater numbers is best cos when they do fight at least anit all concentrated on one fish getting beat up! .
 
I have had the combo of three fail, with young black aros. Through the day they where fine, but through the night two paired up and beat the other to near death. I also was previously successful in adding a 19-20" black with two 27" silvers, point is the number of arowana has very little to do with success or failure.
 
khoile said:
Hi, I tried searching, maybe I'm bad with key words, but I don't see any first hand account of anyone with exactly 2 arowanas. All I see is people give advice not to do it, and other saying it's possible and can be done.
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The search bar is a joke, it never pulls up what you are looking for. The only way I do it is by using the Advanced Search and changing the menu to title only. This way it will pull the items you are searching for based on just the keyword. I will typically do a search before I ask but I refuse to sift though 100's of pages. If it's not in the top 20 then I post it. As for the anal retentive who don't like it, don't care what they think lol.
 
I would just do a large water change and rearrange the tank. I woud not do the wood, just something for them to hit if they start hitting each other and darting away. They will stay at top of tank anyway. I would try floating the bag and see if the silver hits the bag, if he does, good luck, I have found if they go after them in the bag, they will go after them outside of it for sure. I have kept silver and jardini in tank no problem, added another jardini, and the 2 jardinis had scales flying before I could separate them.
 
khoile said:
Ok moved the silver to the sump.. enough space there for him to circle around.. it about 22" length and 18" width. I imagine that how they ship the fish also, hopefully he'll be OK by tomorrow when I will be returning him to the tank. Needed the flow in the sump for filtering and aeration. Covered with soft foam and then weighted down. He did tried to jump twice but seem settle now.

The two blacks are put in the tank.. one jumped out as I tried to move him, lucky I knew how to handle that.. use my t-shirt to capture and return him to the tank. They are not fighting as of now, I've been watching them for about an hour. Lights are now off. Crossing my fingers all is good. Hope to get some pictures once they are all settle in.

Thanks.
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Update? Hope the silver isn't still swimming in the sump.
 
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