Thanks for the information, do you think having a fairly big tank like a 300 and many fish would help with the possible problems you suggest?, How big was your tank with the combinations of fish and how many fish total in the tank?, 10, 15, 20 or more?
Monster freshwater "sharks"
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Cichlas;1238912; said:
i always have bad luck with black sharks, the last one i had in a comunity tank to grow out then with my cichlids then all the cichlids moved into a 125 with the shark he got huge and just beat on every thing, but i gave my aunt one and he was just the nicest black shark i have ever seen.
nice sharks wht size tank are they all in, sorry if it was posted already.
brcacti;1238965; said:
I think it will be a bit of a lottery whatever the tank size. Mine are in a 180, heavily stocked tank. I don't think the number of fish matter really (there are around 20 in mine), the fish either get ignored or not.
Ben_Jam_In;1239856; said:
they are in a 180 mate.
allegra;1243256; said:
No problem. I've found mine to be very easy on the feeding side. Will eat everything from pellets and flake to prawns to vegetables. It is a very active fish and is always on the move. It spends a fair amount of time ramming into the substrate looking for food. When it was in a tank with sand substrate, it would take a mouth full and cruise around the tank sifting it before spitting it out near the surface. This did make filtration a real pain as even with the inlet to the cannisters well above the sand, his constant spitting of it from the top of the tank meant sand was always entering the filter. He is in a gravel bottomed tank now but still behave very similar. As far as aggression goes, I would call it moderate. It will chase other fish, but not persistently. It isn't bothered if the other fish is bigger than itself when it does get in a mood. Only the black shark never gets aggro from it. Oddly, considering it is a labeo and you would expect it to be bottom dwelling, it spends the majority of its time cruising the upper and top areas. As a consequence the red tailed chalceus and the mahseer take the most aggro from it. Nothing major though.
brcacti;1243953; said:
The red tail chalceus I have are not aggressive at all as long as the fish are too big to eat, they have eaten some rainbow fish that I had to temporarily put in the tank, so nothing too small basically.
in my 100 gallon I have roselines (3) red tails (2) rainbow, ID Shark baby, three bala's ( one is 5 inches) chacleus (2). That is the shark population I also have other kinds, barb, tetra, lots of other fish and a rather large distocodimus. They all get along great. They school together, chase each other but dont eem to bother the others. In the pond (200 gallon) i have 25" ID, 17" imperial ID and a 22" golden clown. They have been known to swim around together, bump eachother around at dinner time.
