Oscars and Barramundi : Compatibility
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Onion01;1450112; said:and it was perfectly normal to catch 7 foot pimas where I used to live in brasil, but i don't go around bursting other people's bubbles. anyways, that was for johnptc, no need to be an ***
Tell me more bubble buster...
Still need to separate...
Its common for barras to get 4 feet in captivity. A four foot long fish is going to eat a one foot long fish.
Its common for barras to get 4 feet in captivity. A four foot long fish is going to eat a one foot long fish.
Gourami Swami;1450216; said:
not neccasarily.. I imagine there is a chance at some losses and larger fish do eat smaller ones but john has a 4ft pima and smaller fish with it..
I plan on having 1ft fish with mine.. Could it eat them.. I guess. But if you don't try then you won't ever really know..
I personally wouldnt risk a 1ft fish, which USUALLY are either hand reared from a baby and have bonded with you, or cost lots of cha-ching, with a fish four to five times its size. If he is willing to make two tanks, why not make a 6 foot and a 15 foot seperately? one could go below the other
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cichlaguapote;1450209; said:Tell me more bubble buster...
I used to live near Manaus, a city near the jungle (it rained like 300 days of the year
)but anyways, every year until i was 14 I would go with my grandfather and uncles and cousins fishing up in the amazon. Never too deep into the jungle, but deep enough to get big fish. When I was 13 I caught a 4', 60 pound RTC and an almost 4' TSN. I also used to catch pacu weighing in at over 20 pounds regularly. We would net piranha to make soup at night. My grandfather was friends with some of the local people, most of which were natives, and they regularly caught pimas (or pirarucu as we call them). I don't think we were allowed to catch them, just the natives. Anyways, one of the guys said that the revered the fish, and would only eat the ones over 5'. I asked what was the biggest he ever caught, and he said 14'. The average sized ones were 6-7'. Never went back after my family moved to sao paulo
Onion01;1450235; said:I used to live near Manaus, a city near the jungle (it rained like 300 days of the year
but anyways, every year until i was 14 I would go with my grandfather and uncles and cousins fishing up in the amazon. Never too deep into the jungle, but deep enough to get big fish. When I was 13 I caught a 4', 60 pound RTC and an almost 4' TSN. I also used to catch pacu weighing in at over 20 pounds regularly. We would net piranha to make soup at night. My grandfather was friends with some of the local people, most of which were natives, and they regularly caught pimas (or pirarucu as we call them). I don't think we were allowed to catch them, just the natives. Anyways, one of the guys said that the revered the fish, and would only eat the ones over 5'. I asked what was the biggest he ever caught, and he said 14'. The average sized ones were 6-7'. Never went back after my family moved to sao paulo
Very cool story. Sounds like 6-7' is a couple year old fish and more regular caught. And the truely monsterous ones are pretty old fish and not regular catches.
Gourami Swami;1450231; said:I personally wouldnt risk a 1ft fish, which USUALLY are either hand reared from a baby and have bonded with you, or cost lots of cha-ching, with a fish four to five times its size. If he is willing to make two tanks, why not make a 6 foot and a 15 foot seperately? one could go below the other
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Yeah certainly if you got seperate tanks go ahead.. but if you keep the barra fed it will work. People think just any big fish will eat anything smaller which is true for a hungry fish. But if you supress that big fish's appetite you'd be suprised how small of fish you can keep with large fish and have little problems.
Mine ate a 8" pima.. but I didn't feed him for a two days and a 8" length pima is still tiny.. very very skinny like a big worm.. lesson learned about feeding. But I've had several smaller oscars/FH with him and he was fine.
