In reguards to Erythrinus erythrinus

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LordWookie

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I have had lots of different fish and now am driving into the predatory fish starting with Erythrinus erythrinus. I have spent the last two weeks searching through Google searches only to be more confused than when I started planning.

The tank is 90 gallons. I want to know for those who have had them what they experienced. I currently have 6 Erythrinus erythrinus on order but am not planning on staying at that number.

1. What size tank?
2. What did you keep with them and how that worked out?
3. Did you have more then 1 Erythrinus erythrinus in the tank?


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with a 90 gallon tank, you can probably keep 3 erythrinus with each other assuming that they will not fight to the death. Usually if you get 3 babies together they will grow a bond. 6 erys in a 90 gallon is definitely pushing it. there will be a lot of territorial issues. It could work if you had a bigger tank.

i've kept both the red erythrinus and the erythrinus peru. They are both very similar fish with an aggressive nature to slow fish or fish of similar sizes. I've kept my wolves with my bichirs and armatus.

I had to sell both of them because of aggression issues. My 5 inch ery red would bully my 11 inch armatus and eat of all food. Of course there are people with different outcome of their wolf fish. There are plenty of people here that have successful cohabs with red wolves.

Just make sure tank mates are fast or too big to be eaten. There could be occasional nips and bites on tankmates. Just my experience.
 
lix.ma14 said:
with a 90 gallon tank, you can probably keep 3 erythrinus with each other assuming that they will not fight to the death. Usually if you get 3 babies together they will grow a bond. 6 erys in a 90 gallon is definitely pushing it. there will be a lot of territorial issues. It could work if you had a bigger tank.

i've kept both the red erythrinus and the erythrinus peru. They are both very similar fish with an aggressive nature to slow fish or fish of similar sizes. I've kept my wolves with my bichirs and armatus.

I had to sell both of them because of aggression issues. My 5 inch ery red would bully my 11 inch armatus and eat of all food. Of course there are people with different outcome of their wolf fish. There are plenty of people here that have successful cohabs with red wolves.

Just make sure tank mates are fast or too big to be eaten. There could be occasional nips and bites on tankmates. Just my experience.
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Thanks for the very helpful input this diffidently helps.
 
i have 4 purple peru in a 75 gallon tank lots of driftwood helps to pervent fights, they seem to be fine and happy but i am planning to upgrade to a 150 planted tank asap.
 
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