Ok so my friends dad has had fish like his whole life and I went to him for tips and stuff. So he has 2 tanks currently, one is 125 gallons and the other is 75 gallons. The 75 is in his office(He's a doctor). So I look in it and it's full of all these amazing cichlids like 14 of them(4-7"), a foot long pelco, and a footlong catfish(I've never seen one like it), then I look in the middle of the tank and notice there is a fish I missed. It's a freaken Black skirt tetra. How has it not died?! He's had him in there for like 5 years and he's in better health than mine and I've got a tank with basically them as the only fish(55 gallon, had it for like a year). I asked him and he was like "I've had like 3 of them to start up the tank when I got it and I've had him sense. Didn't really expect him to get anywhere but he's out lived alot of my cichlids." I was wondering does this normally happen like this? I was just shocked to know this works.
How does this even work?
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Some fish are just badasses! I added 12 Neons to a community tank ages ago but in that community was a Pictus cat and African butterfly, 11 of the neons didn't last the weekend but the one that survived lived in there for about 6 months as the only Neon! Even when he died they didn't touch his body!
I had a similar situation with a platty that was in with 2 Oscars, JD and a GT!
I had a similar situation with a platty that was in with 2 Oscars, JD and a GT!
Black Skirt Tetras can hold there own in a lot of tanks! Sure they are small fish, but they are nippy and fast, like tiger barbs.
Agreed. I have both tiger barbs and a black skirt tetra, very fast guys and can avoid being eaten. The other fish in there probably gave up on trying to eat him, or just didn't care for it at all.
I had a red cherry shrimp survive in my 75g with cichlids, giant danios, and my senegal bichirs for a few months.