Jardini tankmates

[weston]

I've read bottom dwellers do well with jardinis in aquariums. I'm just wondering what are some catfish in particular that do well with this species of arowana, as well as some loaches and other bottom dwellers that are compatible with this fish, I'm really looking for a list of things I can keep with my jardini but I'm not that into clown loaches or any type of pleco if that helps.

I've also been wondering if anyone has had luck keeping these in a planted aquarium with fish like Eartheaters or even green terrors who tend to stick to the lower regions of the tank or possibly q schooling fish in a more open tank like tinfoil barbs or a larger type of silver dollars maybe redhooks or wide bar SDs any ideas on how this would workout as the fish grew in size? Let me know!!!

 

[moe214]

How about blue botia for loaches. You can do bichirs too, they're tough. For catfish, do medium sized species, maybe sun cats or pim blochii. You can do driftwood catfish, larger species of course. Raphael's. If your gonna have him I'd assume you'd have space for an irwini, they're nice.

 

[Evz jardini]

Irwini and Niger cats work great I've never had a problem housing these in 10+ yrs of keeping jardini , try and steer away from cichlids it only results in injuries, stress or deaths generally.
Polys can work well too depending on the jardini , as for dither fish sd's or tinfoils could work but if your jar hates silver fish like my first two did them you can say goodbye to those as it grows .
Jardini keeping it's always a gamble tbh I've had fish live with them fine for years them come home to dead tankmates when they decide today I want this whole tank to myself lol

 

[weston]

Irwini and Niger cats work great I've never had a problem housing these in 10+ yrs of keeping jardini , try and steer away from cichlids it only results in injuries, stress or deaths generally.
Polys can work well too depending on the jardini , as for dither fish sd's or tinfoils could work but if your jar hates silver fish like my first two did them you can say goodbye to those as it grows .
Jardini keeping it's always a gamble tbh I've had fish live with them fine for years them come home to dead tankmates when they decide today I want this whole tank to myself lol

Cool I like giant raphiel catfish they remind me of ripsaw cats almost just smaller and I've been wanting a giraffe cat in another tank for awhile I just can't find any and I'm hesitant to order offline I'm hoping to stumble across one in the classifieds one day.
So I found a supper cool catfish just the other day and I'd buy one but I can't seem to find one anywhere unless their seller is located in Australia or something does anyone know what an eel tail catfish is and where I can buy one I don't know much about them other then this is what they look like and they grow fairly large in the aqurium so if anyone has any info on them let me know!!!

 

[moe214]

I've heard of them, don't think there's much info on them post in the catfish section about them

 

[Evz jardini]

Cool looking cat the head looks very giraffe like , I had a big giraffe cat with my second jardini they got along just fine considering there a lot more active than the irwini or Niger cats he still left it we'll alone , the only cat my jardini really tried to kill was a big clarius and that's coz he was a tail nipper lol

 

[turtles]

Eel tail catfish are a native catfish here in Australia a very very active catfish aswell they cruise all of there tank they could work with jardini as i have tried myself very peaceful fish but the jardini will be the problem as the eel tail or Tandanus Tandanus will cruise all of the tank from bottom to top the jardini may not like that my first jar use to beat on my eeltail every time he went near the top but left him alone when he was at the bottom trial and error I guess as for finding one outside of Australia you best bet is to import if possible they reach about 30 40cm usually in aquarium but reach 65cm in wild they eat just about anything like prawns fish fillets pellets worms other small fish handle with care they have spines on there fins with a numbing sorta chemical coated on them you get stabbed by it your hand will be knumb for hours (learnt from experience lol) hope this helps

 

[weston]

Eel tail catfish are a native catfish here in Australia a very very active catfish aswell they cruise all of there tank they could work with jardini as i have tried myself very peaceful fish but the jardini will be the problem as the eel tail or Tandanus Tandanus will cruise all of the tank from bottom to top the jardini may not like that my first jar use to beat on my eeltail every time he went near the top but left him alone when he was at the bottom trial and error I guess as for finding one outside of Australia you best bet is to import if possible they reach about 30 40cm usually in aquarium but reach 65cm in wild they eat just about anything like prawns fish fillets pellets worms other small fish handle with care they have spines on there fins with a numbing sorta chemical coated on them you get stabbed by it your hand will be knumb for hours (learnt from experience lol) hope this helps

Thanks man, I see people post about them occasionally but they seem like a pretty hard fish to get ahold of. I'm not sure if they are a seasonal fish or something but I plan to keep an eye out in hopes some come up sooner or later.

 

[moe214]

Try to reach out to some vendors

 

[turtles]

Thanks man, I see people post about them occasionally but they seem like a pretty hard fish to get ahold of. I'm not sure if they are a seasonal fish or something but I plan to keep an eye out in hopes some come up sooner or later.

They aren't seasonal here in Australia available all year round as it's very common here but I think the reason there not so common elsewhere is Australias strict import export with special licenses needed to import and export live animals and I believe that there only found here in Oz will be well worth finding one though and good luck