Jardini Tankmates

[rodger]

Many years ago, about 1992-3, I got a 3" Jardini. No internet, just tons of fish books and no info on them. Well my fish and I never read the stuff that said they were badass. When he was large enough he went into my 120 that was heavily stocked with Discus and a couple Syno Angelicus. They all lived in harmony until he was about 20" and my tank split a seam. Had to get rid of everything since I had a traveling job at the time. The jar was hand tame. The only aggression was with my fingers when hand feeding. These days Jardini's have internet access and have all read the stuff that says they are bad. I won't try that again. Now I have a Lei. We will see how that goes when he goes into a comm.

 

[johnny potatoes]

Doesn't your Sticky post cover the temperment of Jardini??


[sorry, couldn't help it!]


I think the others have covered it already, most Jardini end up as solo fish in anything less than truly massive tanks.

I was waiting for someone to say that. I couldn't come up with a nice way to say it. That being said Give it a shot you might get lucky.

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[E.C.]

^What is it to make an evil jardini tamed? Bad water parameters.

Bad joke eel*

lol how did you do that? I'm not sayin you do have Bad water parameters but how?

 

[David R]

big tank + got lucky would be my guess.

 

[Evz jardini]

+1

 

[Jesseliu13]

I know sorry, but if an Arowana is put in last isn't there a smaller chance of it being aggressive.

Personally I don't think this theory works. You send a bully/a**hole to a new school he's still gonna be an a**hole/bully.
But to contradict my own words. I put my jardini last and it's less aggressive than my last ones. But it's sill small so in still biting the bullet

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[Andrink]

Ok, I hope my Jardini 'Plays Nice' and doesn't hurt anyone.

 

[johnny potatoes]

^What is it to make an evil jardini tamed? Bad water parameters.

Bad joke eel*

lol how did you do that? I'm not sayin you do have Bad water parameters but how?

A little toilet water does the trick

big tank + got lucky would be my guess.

I think David hit the nail on the head. I got lucky with this one. Although even ibn a small tank I didn't have any problems with this one. I put him in a 135 for a month or so when I was upgrading to the 350 he's in now from the 240 he was in and still no aggression. In fact I could put my hand in the 135 and it would swim into my hands so I could pet him, he would do this as long as I left my hand in the tank. I've had three over 16" and I don't remember the first one but the last one killed everything, long time ago before I knew any better but I would dump in 50 feeders at a time. He would eat what he wanted and get the remaining ones over the next few days. Then came a time when he would eat what he wanted and I'd wake up to 30 dead goldfish floating. This was 15 years ago before I had a computer and knew what their reputation was. I figured on putting this one in a tank by himself at one point but no need as I got lucky.

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[Jesseliu13]

A little toilet water does the trick




I think David hit the nail on the head. I got lucky with this one. Although even ibn a small tank I didn't have any problems with this one. I put him in a 135 for a month or so when I was upgrading to the 350 he's in now from the 240 he was in and still no aggression. In fact I could put my hand in the 135 and it would swim into my hands so I could pet him, he would do this as long as I left my hand in the tank. I've had three over 16" and I don't remember the first one but the last one killed everything, long time ago before I knew any better but I would dump in 50 feeders at a time. He would eat what he wanted and get the remaining ones over the next few days. Then came a time when he would eat what he wanted and I'd wake up to 30 dead goldfish floating. This was 15 years ago before I had a computer and knew what their reputation was. I figured on putting this one in a tank by himself at one point but no need as I got lucky.

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I think its really just what your jardini's pet peve. You dont poke a bear with a BBgun. So bigger tank is always better. as long as the fish grows proportionally towards large tanks.. There is no point in putting a single neon tetra in a 125 gallon tank. But like we all said. No matter if it ends up being agressive or not.. Be prepared to lose some fish.

 

[Andrink]

My arowana is inactive....