INDIAN GIANT SNAKEHEAD (channa diplogramma) TANKMATES?
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gars can protect themselves to snakeheads, there are high compatibility rate when you mix it up with gars. But then again, it's a miss or hit.
Only if the Snakehead grows at same rate as the gar, or they are similar at size.. Once I saw my Florida gars attacking my dwarf Snakehead. But due to my crappy tank dimensions.. I sold to a lfs which said they died the next day (another story)
Other than that small incident I think gars can be kept as they are pretty peaceful creatures.. Heck. I reckon my clown knife is more aggressive than the gars I kept before
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Well silly you won't have to put a 6 inch gar with a 24" full grown indian giant snakehead wouldn't ya?
both has a fast and decent growth rate, it'll just goes by the character of the predators.Just like what I said, hit or miss, not everything applies on everyone in this hobby.
General suggestions are right, For any chance of success tank mate has too be eual sized or large then the snakehead, and not territorial/aggressive.
I've seen many successful mixes with young diplo. But my suspicion is that these are all temporary successes,
I suspect when these fish mature they will snap and kill everyone. Much like micros most dont survive into large sizes and maturity people kill them or get rid og them long before they experience the adult behavior and this leads to them thinking they are suitable tank mates.
As more and more people kept micro's into larger sizes more and more people discovered that as they get larger they snap and clean out tank mates big or small over night, diplo's are probably very similar but only time will tell.
I've seen many successful mixes with young diplo. But my suspicion is that these are all temporary successes,
I suspect when these fish mature they will snap and kill everyone. Much like micros most dont survive into large sizes and maturity people kill them or get rid og them long before they experience the adult behavior and this leads to them thinking they are suitable tank mates.
As more and more people kept micro's into larger sizes more and more people discovered that as they get larger they snap and clean out tank mates big or small over night, diplo's are probably very similar but only time will tell.
micros can get bigger than diplo's you see, like what you've said, most of the snakeheads are not team players, there are some species which form out a school only to kill and hunt. Still goes by the characteristics, there are exemptions tho. But I'll go for huge plecos, and what I mean huge it's suppose to be big panaque or common ones, gars, and 15"+ bichirs with some girth. I don't know about other people, but in our country, micro's are pretty popular tankmates for polypterus endlicheri or other adult polys, dunno why they tolerate each other must be because poly's are bottom dwellers. Still, it's only the fish and water parameters can tell.
i have already decided one tankmate and thats pleco, i dont think anbody is gonna try to take a bite out of it, you know what i mean right?lol
