Payara captive care guide

[mynheers_a_pint]

it's rare enough to find the red tail varient and when they do come up they are... expensive. Hence why i only have 2.

It also looks like they have fed as my line was empty 2 hours after putting it into the tank and the only fish actively moving when i checked was the .tats. So that looks like good news. I may set 2 lines tonight to make sure they are both feeding and not just one.

 

[channarox]

my tats got off live easy when there were more than one tat and when they have a teacher fish that is a very aggressive eater but not aggressive otherwise.
the best fish that has worked for me seems to be pbass.
my old tat kept watching my temensis eat and finally broke.
before my temensis was added,there were lots of other fish that ate shrimp.
but the tat never even bothered.

 

[mynheers_a_pint]

well i have good and bad news. Having added some live feedershrimp i have managed to get them into the eating mood. So much so that they happily took some of my lined lance fish. something i will add to this is that the packaging methods of lance fish seem very important. The packet/sachette style lance fish is suitable for some fish as it breaks up easily, however my tats wouldn't go for it. I bought some whole lance fish that had been seemingly individually frozen and they took that happily! The only downside i have found is that one of my tats had gone for one of the lines with such vigour, he took some of the cotton with him. Naturally, this is how i confirmed that they were feeding but more of a concern was that the cotton was now attached to the fish.

I managed to get it free but it was little worrying.

i'm hoping that in time, i won't have to feed them in this manor but for now i cannot see any other way but hell; they're on dead food!

 

[channarox]

congrats on getting them off live.

 

[tohphan17]

Hi, I am a new member from Thailand. I've just started this monster fishes hobby by buying a 10 feet tank. I now have two African Tiger, one Amartus, two Dorado and a Stingray.

 

[VampAro69]

Good looking thread going! I have had both a tat and scombs. and have never lost one to bad water, (had two get eaten by a TSN who was going to be traded in the next day)

Kept my Tat the longest at about over a year, and he did not grow ....... maybe over an inch, became very colorfuly red though.

Had my 2 scombs just under a year and they were easly outgrowing the tat and the tat would thrash at them and anything else that was sniffing in his territory, which was under a little log.

Had to sell the tank and everything due to moving, BUT can not wait to get another tank going with the same set up but more tats.

Mynheers- great looking tats, where did you get them??? Makes me miss mine.

I think we have far more good information about how to raise them and not enough on where to get tats. It must be a seasonal thing?


Here is the smallest pic I have for comparison. but it sux

 

[Danzig98]

Hey guys, i just po 4inc armatus i had a set up 1.5x1×1.5 cm is payara gonna get stressed with big tank, thank you

 

[MDM21]

I’ve kept all three and currently have a scomb and armatus. My scomb I’ve had coming up on 2 years now - the armatus is new and very small. The scomb readily eats large carnivore pellets daily and looks/seems happy and healthy. It has grown around 2-3” and is currently somewhere around the 8” mark. Such a cool fish, really hope to keep long term.