For at least a few months (possibly more depending on the situation), that is. My primary one is a pictus catfish with kuhli loaches.
Not-recommended fish mixings you have gotten away with
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Piranha and leporinus for a year. Don’t recommend as it was constant bickering and lots of damage. Lost the piranha to a head concussion.
Amazon puffers in a community tank - if done from a young age so they all get used to each other it goes well. Just don’t mix with anything too mean.
Amazon puffers in a community tank - if done from a young age so they all get used to each other it goes well. Just don’t mix with anything too mean.
I love the look of a tank with large fish in the 12"+ range and smaller schoolers or live bearers. Problem is most of these larger fish look at the small fish as food so it does not always work out. I have successfully kept platies with a solo amphilophus and the most interesting was a Bumblebee Oscar with Australian rainbows. It was interesting because the Oscar would eat frozen silversides but never ate one of his rainbow tankmates. I tried the same mix with other Oscars and it was not successful, had even tried quite large, taller bodied tetras like black skirts but no success. That one Oscar was quite the exception in regards Oscar behavior.
I've kept my red tailed giant gourami since he was 3" long with lots of other species, small medium and large. He's now about 18" and is still very placid.
Going off some of the horror stories you read about some GG's, I think I've done really well at dodging a bullet.
But he's only 6 years old so plenty of time for him to get rambunctious on me yet!
Going off some of the horror stories you read about some GG's, I think I've done really well at dodging a bullet.
But he's only 6 years old so plenty of time for him to get rambunctious on me yet!
I am getting away now with having a stripped headstander (A. anostomus) which normally is a jerk, sharing a 75g with 3 silver dollars and cities. In other tanks he has been a pest but he has been a delight now. His family name is ‘the jerk’. The dollars and him will be moving soon to a new 6 foot tank, together with other dollars and Brochis. Hopefully he will continue being nice or else he will be stuck in a 40 breeder.
Ropefish and small community fish, ropefish never seems to bother with them at all
