Hoplias mala

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wolfer

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OK so I have finally found a place that has malas and have decided I will get 2, I will be picking them up tomorrow! I has read it is hit or miss with tank mates they are roughly 6 inches right now. I will be giving away a lot of my smaller fish to good homes( a silver dollar, a pleco, ghost knife , huge clarius catfish and a unknown cichlid) I was wondering if the wolves can both stay in a 55 for a month or 2? I have a 180 with 2 10" Oscars and a 13" clown knife and will be getting another 180 or 220 shortly and would like to have one in each with an Oscar please share your thoughts

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I personally wouldn't try 2 in a 55 but that's just me. I had 2 in my 150 together, and they were constantly at each other I had to divide it, and then they spent the majority of their time trying to get through the divider at each other. Not saying it won't work (for a little bit) but I think 2 in a 55gal would be tight.


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I can only go by personal experience, but I had mine in a 150 with 2 convicts and my VATF, everyone got along. There was chasing here and there, but for the most part they got along. I have my black wolf in with those same three fish now and it's the same. It's more the two wolves in the same tank; they really don't like each other. Only other advice is oscars are greedy eaters, so you'll have to make sure your mala is getting food and the oscars aren't getting it all. Otherwise the wolf is gonna get hungry, and angry, and that's when things go south...


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i definately don't recommend keeping two malas together. they are even more aggreive as tankmates than curupiras. I've only seen one picture and instance when two malas were kept together. For other MFKers, they had to seperate them from the intense fighting. This means torn fins, missing scales, a few blood shed. Not being pessimistic just a friendly reminder. I have a red wolf and it is constant bullying my bichirs. Malas can be kept will large top dwelling fish but not so successfully with bottom dwelling tankmates.

With bottom dwelling tankmates, they either get stressed out, bullied or killed. There is only a slight chance that it will more (for the time being).

Especially in a small 55 gallon, i honestly don't think it's going to end up in what you wanted it to be.

Well good luck.
 
Ok I was just wondering I can put one in the 55 alone till a get another 180 and put the other in my current 180 with my 2 oscers and clown knife
 
you can put one alone in a 55 gal until you get the 180 gal.
 
I used to have 2 malas around 30cm,1 erythrinus and a friends 35cm curu with a couple of 25-35cm bichirs and some cichlids in a 150 for like 6 months without any problems.

Malas and most wolves who are used from juvenile with tankmates becomes pussycats in most cases,But its individual of course.Wolves aint nearly as tough as some ppl seems to think,Ive seen HUGE wolves get badly beaten up by Oscars/parachromis half their own size and become so afraid that they stop eating for weeks in big tanks.But then again its idividual,I´ve heard about a 35-40cm mala that bit a huge rtc in the head without letting it go until the rtc started toe toss its head around the whole tank.Wolves thats been alone in a tank for its whole life will try to kill everyting if its moved to a new tank with tankmates.
 
hey wolfer ! if you picked them up from finatics i picked 1 up too ! we should monitor our growth together , cheers mate
 
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