Lima Shovelnose

[TheEelKing]

Will a lima shovelnose work with my stocking? If not, then which fish would I have to get rid of for the lima shovelnose to stay longterm?

1- Clown Kinife
1- Thin Bar Datnoid
7- Clown Loaches (4-7 inches)
1- Jade Goby
1- Gold Severum
1- Blood Red Parrot
5- Silver Dollars
1- Fire Eel
1- Leopard Ctenopoma

I have a striped raphael in my tank, but I want to get rid of it in favor of a lima shovelnose.

 

[spadoc79]

what size tank is it? those tank mates should be fine aslong has you have a LARGE tank.

 

[muffywrx]

No need to get rid of the small raphael cat really. As long as your tank is large as mentioned above.

 

[jprp]

Crazy mix of potential sizes there, clown knife could get 30in, loaches probably wont get much bigger than they are and lima will get 18-24in.
You need to look up the adult sizes for your stock and pick a size range for what you want to keep.

 

[lungfishlover]

should be fine - get the LSN fairly small and it shouldnt see any tankmates as potential prey - LSN's can hold their own in the tank - i have had one for a while now and it used to give as good as it got from my sevs (which are now gone)

my only worry with that stocklist is the bushfish and the clownknife - you will be amazed how fast the ck's grow cmpared to the bushfish. and the ck can get a little snappy