In regards to the thread that was just closed

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Sounds interesting, and that's the attitude I like on here.

Hey it's easy to create a community of small peaceful fish, but creating a predator community is hard.

Midas - how big is your wolf compared to the other fish? :)

You know for quite a while I had a hoplias, a hujeta, a bichir, and 2 oscars in the same tank. It worked out fine for ages, but the wolf started to become more aggressive. Mainly towards the oscars but I became worried that he would turn on the other 2 and kill them easily. I liked them a lot so I decided to sell them quick before they got hurt.

At the moment I have an 8 inch wolf living with 2 6 inch oscars, a 4 inch texas cichlid, and a 5/6 inch goldfish :D :D

I also have the jardini living peacefully with a tiny, skinny little 3 inch peacock bass and a small raphael. The jardini is almost 7 inches. He leaves the tiny little pbass alone completely, yet he hated the texas.

So right now everything is fine, no aggression, no bullying.


And from this experimenting one thing I've learned for sure is that my little albino ;channa cannot live with anything. I mean really.

This channa, around 6 inches and as wide as a finger attacked a big chunky 6 inch oscar as soon as he saw it, bit it twice. It's easily the most aggressive fish I have, it will try and kill anything I put in there. I swear it would attack my wolf too if given the chance.

I'm not sure if it's even worth trying the channa with any other tankmates, I can't think of anything that would be able to stand up to it's INSANE aggression and speed. UNless the fish was 10x the size.
 
o one more example offish suposedlynot bein able to be kept in comunity.
right now up mygirlshouse theres a 8 inch channa gachua goin on two years old its with a senegalis bichir
jag
bumble be cat
and has been with three other bichirs otyher cichlids and never attacked a single one hell i never gave it feeders and when i did they just swam around never got ate by it.


mywolf is a hopilas or whatever its aprox 6 inchs my lung could make him dinner in a snap
 
rumblesushi
in last thread you started on the wrong foot your post have become more reasonable since
most people who keep aggressive predetor fish understand that setting up a community tank will require some trial and error hopefully you wont lose a good fish
but if you do lose a fish dont blame the fish for not being tough enough its your fault
not the fish
especially when your protecting your predetor fish by placing smaller less aggressive fish with him its like caging a poodle and a pit bull sure poodles are fiesty but their just not made for the same thing

like i said you started on the wrong foot

i have and have had some of the same fish they can be difficult to house with others
but the trail and error is what makes it fun
 
I completely agree with what everyone just said about this topic. i myself have a 11" black ghost, 10" clown knife, a 12" silver arrow, two 4" clown loaches, a 8" ornate birchir, a 7" shortfin birchir, and a 12" hifin pleco. whatever works without harming the fish go for it.
 
In have enough tanks that I can move things around and sometimes a fish will hate a certain individual but like another one of the same type and size as the one they hated. I cant say why but it happens.
 
I have danios and a tiger barb mixed with my dat and aro. thou one day im expecting them to become dinner???
 
I would ask to those who keep these "questionable to some" fishtanks, how long have they been set up? Months? A year? Success in fishkeeping is not measured in small time. If you have kept your tank selection for over a few years and suffered no deaths or diseases from stress, then I would agree that yes, your selection can work. However, as one posted above, each fish is different, hence the oscar who kept the betta as his pet might one day turn on her, or might not. It is important to distinguish between "hey, this works for me so far!" and "I've kept these fish together for seven years now and suffered no losses."
 
TaratronVaeVictus said:
I would ask to those who keep these "questionable to some" fishtanks, how long have they been set up? Months? A year? Success in fishkeeping is not measured in small time. If you have kept your tank selection for over a few years and suffered no deaths or diseases from stress, then I would agree that yes, your selection can work. However, as one posted above, each fish is different, hence the oscar who kept the betta as his pet might one day turn on her, or might not. It is important to distinguish between "hey, this works for me so far!" and "I've kept these fish together for seven years now and suffered no losses."
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well... very simply to say... these are pred fish that are generally nasty most of the time. To have them in a community w/o fights for a month is to me a success. Because these buggers normally kill each other in a matter of hours normally.

Getting them to live together like that w/o fighting is considered a great accomplishment.

And if you want to talk about long term.... well... if u dont start somewhere then how are u gonna find out the answers?
 
:iagree: Excellent point!
 
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