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Jack Dempsey
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so i recently purchased a silver arowana (12" long) and put him in the tank with a jardini who is about 8" but the silver is constenly getting picked on to the point he hides in the botton corner of the tank, What do i do?
it a 200 gallon tank if that helps
 
I'll be honest and say i have no experience with Aro's, but from the sounds of it you may need to get rid of one of them... especially since a 200G ain't going to work with 2 of them for very long...
 
jardinis are super aggressive. I'd pick your favorite man...
 
You'd need an extremely massive tank to house those two together. shoot, you'd need an excessivly large tank just for the silver; they get really big. you will have to seperate them, and unless you have a 600+ gallon in the plans of your future, the silver probably wont work out for you
 
I tried this once, and I added the Jardini after, with an established silver. The jar was 12-14" and the silver over 24". Jar hounded the silver within a day. They are really, really mean, you'll have to take it out. A LFS near me had a 375 with 6 24" silvers, 3 18" asians and a 18" jar...guess which one was in perfect shape and all the other aros chewed up?
 
shoulda done some research before hand, jardinis are just really really aggressive as everybody else has said, nothing you can do cept get rid of one entirely
 
i went to the local pet shop and the owner told me that as long as the silver was bigger then the jardini i was ok , looks like he was wrong!
 
i would get rid of the jardini, silvers are beautiful. jars are nasty. idk, maybe if u add dither fish like an oscar, a p.bass or a gar or distichodus the agressiveness will be eased. its not guaranteed though. i would divide the tank if possible too. anyway, if it doesnt stop, the silver will die...best of luck
 
If you want to just have one lone fish, keep the jar.

If you are interested in keeping other fish + an aro keep the silver.

A 200 gallon tank would be better for the Jar, if i were you I would keep that one.
 
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