marijuana.arowana;3370585; said:
yeah,i know they are unpredictable..will give it a thot tho.. thanks
green aro with albino oscar?
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yeah,i know they are unpredictable..will give it a thot tho.. thanks
I wouldn't worry about the aro getting damaged, most oscars aren't really aggressive and there's enough of a size difference that the green will dominate the oscar.
David R;3373033; said:
cool.. i'll put in 2 oscars if the frontosa's that I ordered will not be available ^_^
I know several hobbyists that have oscars with their arowanas without problems. However your oscar might eventually outgrow your green very soon, so please monitor their behaviour.
Cypher;3375172; said:
what type of oscars do they have? i might get the least aggressive type of oscar.. the albino oscar just to be sure.. thanks mate ^_^
Well lets just put it this way, I have two tiger oscars (one black, one albino) both roughly 3.5 inches and a monochromis that is tiny. I went and bought a 5 inch Australian arowana and a 8 inch clown knife fish and put them all in the same tank.
Now before purchasing my arowana and knife fish i asked various 'professional' fish keepers if the arowana would be fine with the oscars and monochromis and explained that my oscars could be pretty boystrous when they wanted to. The answer i got was yes the arowana was very aggressive if provoked and would do just fine in the tank.
So anyway put my new fish in the tank, went to work, came home, thought i'd admire the newbies only to find the knife fish had been slightly attacked and was a bit marked, but the arowana had been demolished, scales torn off and everything.
I seperated the arowana in a hospital tank but it died very shortly after.
So my advice is no, but that is on one bad experience i have had, it does all come down to the individual behaviour of the fish you own, so you have to take your own risks. I certainly will not be mixing these fish again.
In fact the oscars are now in with an 18 inch tiger shovel nose and a huge pacu, and theyre not so boystrous now! And i plan to go get another arowana and hopefully this will not ever happen to me or anyone again!!
Now before purchasing my arowana and knife fish i asked various 'professional' fish keepers if the arowana would be fine with the oscars and monochromis and explained that my oscars could be pretty boystrous when they wanted to. The answer i got was yes the arowana was very aggressive if provoked and would do just fine in the tank.
So anyway put my new fish in the tank, went to work, came home, thought i'd admire the newbies only to find the knife fish had been slightly attacked and was a bit marked, but the arowana had been demolished, scales torn off and everything.
I seperated the arowana in a hospital tank but it died very shortly after.
So my advice is no, but that is on one bad experience i have had, it does all come down to the individual behaviour of the fish you own, so you have to take your own risks. I certainly will not be mixing these fish again.
In fact the oscars are now in with an 18 inch tiger shovel nose and a huge pacu, and theyre not so boystrous now! And i plan to go get another arowana and hopefully this will not ever happen to me or anyone again!!
weway;3375394; said:
I have an albino oscar, 3.5" as i said before, this is the 2nd most most aggressive fish i have after an 8" tilapia!!
shambleskid;3375426; said:
A 5" aro is still a tiny fragile juvenile, and a 3.5" oscar is a lot more "developed" and was already established in the tank. IMO the "professional" fishkeepers you asked were fools. You also didn't say how big the tank is, I have a feeling I know what the answer will be and I think that wouldn't have helped...
hmmm.. tiger oscars are really hostile.. before i had 2 tigers and 3 albino oscars and the 2 tigers were able to slow one albino and eventually got killed.. it was then that i find out that albino oscars get bullied by tiger oscars.. from 3 albinos down to 1 .. since albinos are the least agresive ,i might take a chance on them ...
