Please advise me...Bichir & wolf fish

[zeroneox]

Hi... can I put together my 2 6cm endi & long rope fish with wolf fish?? I feed them fully will my wolf fish attack them?

 

[Fruitbat]

Personally, I wouldn't do it. Though I've seen that picture thread posted that has a Rope Fish in with two larger snakeheads....it is just too damned risky to hope you'll have the same luck with bichirs and wolf fish.

-Joe

 

[zeroneox]

they seem fine for now cos got alot of small fish food for them.. only worry about the wolf fish.. cool killer.. with plant and red sand the guy just come out with full colour... like the eye

 

[Oddball]

"they seem fine for now"

Is the song we hear all too often. Sooner or later, a wolf with any other fish will become just a wolf in the tank. When a wolf takes offense to any other fish, it won't just push it away. The wolf will rip it to shreds. With most other fish (that don't have iron jaws) you get an indication that it's time to separate fish because you see torn fins, etc. You usually won't have that kind of grace period with a wolf.

 

[deD3]

i dont think it will work out in the long run bro

 

[beblondie]

reread the above answers as fish grow to maturity their personalitys change
whats peacefully coexisting for months can change within seconds -Anne

 

[Vince]

i had a 13" H. Malabaricus(wolfish) with my 6" senegal, 10" polli, delhizi for three months. The wolf hardly eats, but i can see it looking for food, not touching other smaller fish. Although it always looks at my black rhom which is above tank. I had smaller flowerhorns, anf freddys with it. I sold that wolf fish because it eats alot.

 

[zeroneox]

ok I will put into a new tank but need to get some mini filter as it is a small nano tank. How many type of wolf fish are there? Any wedsite or picture??

 

[beblondie]

You do know they can reach between 10-20 inches in length so it won't be in a nano tank very long -Anne

 

[piranha45]

ok I will put into a new tank but need to get some mini filter as it is a small nano tank. How many type of wolf fish are there? Any wedsite or picture??

quite a few, in two different genera
if you wish to see them go to http://www.fishbase.org and in the Scientific Name field, type in "Erythrinus" in genus and change the Species from "is" to "contains" and leave the Species field blank. And then after you checked all those out, do the same but with "Hoplias"