Long term success with aba aba in community

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Fantastic fish that in my experience is best kept by itself.

Mine is very smart and destroys most things placed in its tank (ie. air stones, filter intakes)

I still have my 13 year old and friends will be moving it in 2 days time to a sectioned tank. This one has a bottom drain.
 
Well I hope mine is one of those rarities that will be fine with others. I know he's still small, but so far, no problems at all with him attacking others. He's got some scratches on his face now though, I'm guessing he tried to snag a piece of tilapia from one of the bichirs cuz he's been doing that a lot.
 
Best of luck

Mine was moved yesterday by 2 mfk buddies Dave and Kevin to an approx. 2mx1.8mx1.8m sectioned area of my 56kl/15kg. It has no other fish in with it but can see many through a heavy nylon screen. The tank has bead filtration and is constantly supplied and exchanged with filtered water from the 196kl/52kg at the rate of about 22kl/6kg a day.
 
Do you all think aba aba knifes are worth it in a solo display tank? Also I was thinking why not try instead of getting fish bigger then abas and thicker why not smaller? A lot smaller lol

Like when they hit 18-20 inches basically set up the tank for tetras and other smaller fish and retend the aba aba isnt thier lmao. Honestly I could picture a very well designed out tank for neon tetras and a aba aba lurking lmao. Anyone thinks this would work? Im pretty sure eventually it will work...lets say for the 30 inch sizes especially I think they would ignore neon tetras
 
Pazzoman said:
Do you all think aba aba knifes are worth it in a solo display tank? Also I was thinking why not try instead of getting fish bigger then abas and thicker why not smaller? A lot smaller lol

Like when they hit 18-20 inches basically set up the tank for tetras and other smaller fish and retend the aba aba isnt thier lmao. Honestly I could picture a very well designed out tank for neon tetras and a aba aba lurking lmao. Anyone thinks this would work? Im pretty sure eventually it will work...lets say for the 30 inch sizes especially I think they would ignore neon tetras
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It may work if the small fish are given plenty of hiding places. The Aba aba is an amazing predator. Mine has never had small feeders last by hiding in dense plant material for more than a few days.
 
Aba aba are predatory that uses electric to navigate as it cannot see. The twitchy movement of the tetra and a school of them will get sense by the aba aba regardless if it hides or not. They will eventuslly get eat or just be killed. Aba aba does not like fish with twitchy movement and will likely to investigate by biting on it. Even my large size tetra such as my armatus and goliat tiger fish were being harrassed by my aba aba but not my calmer fish.
 
tried this w/ feeder guppies... as said they use a similar system sharks/rays do. nothing is safe... lol but that's the beauty of this fish for us. ours is in a low light planted set-up and he occasionally rearranges but for the most part leaves the décor alone. and idk about calling them "blind" ours certainly sees me since I feed him and my husband usually doesn't he will beg for food from me but not him. their eyesight is undoubtably poor but I wouldn't say they are completely blind.

Every time we've had to cut back on tanks ect... having kids is darn expensive =/ ... we always manage to justify keeping ours and giving up other fish, even though he requires his own tank. imo they are a love/hate species... you either absolutely love keeping them, or absolutely hate keeping them. Kinda like puffers or spiney eels.
 
I had a nice lil aba aba till i came in my old fish room and my ornate bichir had him half way down the pipe tail first. I really iked him he was small around 10 inches.
 
Can someone post a pic of their aba aba? I'm not really satisfied with what Google pic has to show. Thanks!
 
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