Giant gourami tank filler fish

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aliaz666

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Hi me and my woman are getting our giant gourami next week and we're gonna pick up a couple of black ghost knifefish to go with it and were wondering if anyone (preferably with experience keeping gg's) can suggest anything else to go with it? It's only a couple of inches long and the tank is a 2ft growout as we are planning on eventually upgrading our 6ft ca/sa and putting the 2ft tank occupants in as well when the gourami is big enough so any filler fish would have to be sa/ca as well.. We were considering perhaps baby green severums?..
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aliaz666;2205713; said:
Hi me and my woman are getting our giant gourami next week and we're gonna pick up a couple of black ghost knifefish to go with it and were wondering if anyone (preferably with experience keeping gg's) can suggest anything else to go with it? It's only a couple of inches long and the tank is a 2ft growout as we are planning on eventually upgrading our 6ft ca/sa and putting the 2ft tank occupants in as well when the gourami is big enough so any filler fish would have to be sa/ca as well.. We were considering perhaps baby green severums?..
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Ours has gone through most tank mates, both existing and new arrivals. This is not to say that it can't be done, other ggs are though are so placid it's untrue so you don't really know until you try it.

Have you got another tank where you could move tank mates to if it all went wrong?
 
GGs can have pretty temperaments. It'd probably be a hit or miss with them depending on the dimensions. When you say 2' do you mean 2' wide, long, tall, or is it squared? And I wouldn't recommend getting a couple BGKs. Get just one. BGKs are very territorial with one another and should only be housed as the only Knife Fish per tank.
 
Yanbbrox;2206306; said:
Ours has gone through most tank mates, both existing and new arrivals. This is not to say that it can't be done, other ggs are though are so placid it's untrue so you don't really know until you try it.

Have you got another tank where you could move tank mates to if it all went wrong?
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Yeah they would be moved into one of our two big tanks. I have heard that they can be nasty hopefully ours will be a bit more peaceful! My girlfriend definatley picked the quietest one out of the three that were at the store so fingers crossed but if it comes down to it i wouldn't be too upset if it cleaned up any other tankmates in the 2ft as over here the 2inch baby gg is costing us AUS $150 so just as long as they won't be too likely to eat it!
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benzjamin13;2206324; said:
GGs can have pretty temperaments. It'd probably be a hit or miss with them depending on the dimensions. When you say 2' do you mean 2' wide, long, tall, or is it squared? And I wouldn't recommend getting a couple BGKs. Get just one. BGKs are very territorial with one another and should only be housed as the only Knife Fish per tank.
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Ok fair enough never heard that about Ghost Knifes thanks for the info. The tank is 2ft long, 1ft 8" high and 1ft wide but as i said its only temporary just didn't want to put it straight into any of my existing setups until i can accurately gauge its temprement. The gg in the display tank at the store is about 2.5-3ft and in a sa/ca setup with some chocolate cichlids, silver dollars, spotted gars (i think) and a couple of earth eaters and as far as i've seen he only seems interested in attacking any humans that walk past the tank and seems to leave the other fish alone but that could just be him..
 
My GG lives with:

1x Arowana
1x Flagtail
10x Clown Loaches

They all live well together, as in your case it all depends on the fish itself.
 
My GG lives with:
1 Black Aro
2 Bala sharks
1 AUL
1 Niger cat
1 T gar
All in a 450 gallon tank, no issues.
 
That two foot tank will not last long, maybe a couple of months at best unless you starve your GG. They grow very quickly.
 
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