I've successfully kept large Uaru with lots of bite-sized fish... and the Uaru ignored the little guys.
Matt
Matt
Huge fish that can cohab with tiny fish?
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I know the perfect fish, but it won't meet your requirements of fresh water. Dragon gobies get about 2 feet long, look impressive, and are FILTER FEEDERS. They are also brackish, so I admit that they don't count. You can, however, keep an adult dragon goby with any brackish fish larger than free floating algae and that fish will be totally safe.
not mine and she is over 3 feet,I actually think they are very picky about what they like to eat.drgnfrc13;4858296; said:
scrup;4858239; said:
Maybe you've owned a predatory Prochilodus, but that would be the exception, not the rule. Mine is about 8" and lives with tetras, some of them quite small. Their rasping mouth parts make it difficult for them to eat large food items. I've heard of them sucking on large slow-moving fish, but never eating smaller fish.
I guess it just depends on the individual, then, because my TT will eat any fish that will fit in its mouth.MsMassPoly;4858729; said:
Very good suggestions and counterpoints in the thread! So far the fish I agree with are the fire eel (known to be non-piscivorous on the whole as a species), the prochilodus (perhaps a small school of them), and I like the uaru idea as well if they can be trusted.
Since I am looking at a good sized group of female bettas as my small species, even slow-moving predators are out of the question. Bettas are easily caught off guard and would be eaten pretty quickly by anything that would eat them.
Obviously RTC, pacu and the like are absolutely laughable suggestions. But as for predators too large to see bettas as prey, things like gar, etc. do make some sense. But they would be an even riskier roll of the dice for sure.
So lets say an 800 gallon tank with an acanthicus adonis (cleverly situated in a cave far to one side of the tank) a fire eel (convinced to stake territory on the opposite side) and around 150 to 200 female bettas and a good cloud of floating plants. This would be an amazing tank IMO.
It could be a few years, but once my adonis is big enough this will happen.
Since I am looking at a good sized group of female bettas as my small species, even slow-moving predators are out of the question. Bettas are easily caught off guard and would be eaten pretty quickly by anything that would eat them.
Obviously RTC, pacu and the like are absolutely laughable suggestions. But as for predators too large to see bettas as prey, things like gar, etc. do make some sense. But they would be an even riskier roll of the dice for sure.
So lets say an 800 gallon tank with an acanthicus adonis (cleverly situated in a cave far to one side of the tank) a fire eel (convinced to stake territory on the opposite side) and around 150 to 200 female bettas and a good cloud of floating plants. This would be an amazing tank IMO.
It could be a few years, but once my adonis is big enough this will happen.
