Jardini Tank Mates?

[6 bar]

At the Denver Aquarium (professionally run) they have a tank with silver, black and gold aro's in with several jardini's, aropimas, royal clown knifes...a pretty impressive tank (of course it's probably 1,000+ gal). They all appeared to get along, however what I've noted in my tanks appeared to be true there as well, if the largest fish is more passive it seems to keep a lid on the smaller, more aggressive fish. In the Denver Aquarium, the aropima was by far the largest so the jars and aro's seemed fairly calm.

I've gone to the Denver aquarium many times. I enjoy the aro display too however, I do not believe they play nicely together always. I've seen some of those aros with some split fins and some seem to have found there territory where no one bothers them and they don't go and bother anyone else. And as you said, that Denver aquarium is gigantic. That 60g tank, as the thread starter has, will probably be a blood bath for a poor black aro. I've seen my small 3" jar go on a fighting spree picking fights with my 3" distichodus, and 3" IT. Needless to say, that jar got returned the next day. If I had to choose, I'd get rid of the jar and get the black. In Denver, they're pretty common, but blacks are much harder to come by.

 

[Gshock]

why? he has a 150 gallon alrdy he will need to upgrade in the future but not soon

I dont think he specified that he had a 150 gallon waiting. And if i remember correctly a standard 150 is still only 2' wide which i highly doubt it enough for a jar.

 

[Hao]

it will be for 1 year or so he will need to upgrade later

 

[Aesop]

150g is pretty small for any arowana species. Go for at least 200g for one, of course the footprint is more important than the liquid volume.

Also, I would not put a Jardini with a Black unless you had an extremely large tank, and a large community of arowanas, which you don't seem to be leaning towards doing.

There are plenty of other cool tankmates you can get for a jardini other than a black arowana. Stick with cool bottom dwellers, catfish work well. Just stay away from the more "busy" catfish species, or ones that get too large like red tails. In addition, a shoal of 8+ clown loaches looks really nice with a giant jardini, check out my sig for videos. Just make sure he can't eat them!