Multiple clown knife and knife fish - feedback

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henward

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1 royal, 1 clown and 1 black african knives in one tank
from babies raised together

anyone here have more than one clown knives or knife fish in their tanks?

i have seen on you tube mutiple knives but dont know anyone with actual experience. will go with silver aros and silver dollars and other cichlids maybe oscars etc. some appollo sharks and cigar sharks and stuff too.
tank is 1200l (310 us gallons) 8 foot

thanks
feedabck would be great on what to expect.
 
I've a BGK (10"), African brown (7"), and Clown knife (10-12") altogether. They've always done well together; BGK and Clown pretty much leave each other alone (never any aggression) and the Brown patrols the entire tank, back and and forth, gets along with both.
 
I have 3 Clown knives and 1 BGK together, been together for ~8months with no problem.
CK´s are ~10", BGK is ~8".
1 CK and the BGK were bought at the sam time, both around 3".
Few months later i added 2 more CK´s, an inch bigger than the one before.
There was some fighting for the first night but never again, all do great together but the first CK is more alone then hanging with the other two.
Tank is 200G
 
Sometimes it works, sometimes not, my Royal CK just sucked one of my Bronze knife's eyes out ...
 
leave out the black ghost knife it will get out grown and killed you could mix a royal clown with a normal one but i would recomend getting a group of 3 or more clowns for best results
 
I have three together. No problems whatsoever, in fact, they seem to "cuddle" together all the time

Jude
 
I have tried the mix the bgk needs to be very large for it to work i lost two till i found one large enough to work. clowns grow fast and go after the tail of the bgk snap .The brown knife is to small in the long term the clown may kill it evry ck i have owned was a real killer you may get lucky. I got rid of my ck a wile back and now my bgk comes out of hiding and my other fish can get food ck are pigs.You will have issues with your cichlid plans as well just my opinion from my experience.
 
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