mine ate some african butterfly fish - it’s not a chase situation - it’s the smaller fish resting / sleeping and the bichir being close by then - lunch
Predator Fish & Schooling Tankmates?
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The Bichers will ambush.....every day another tetra will disappear. The schooling fish are so active and the bicher patient in the smallish tank. if you dont already own the upgraded tank I would hold off on bringing in fish that require it......good advice here from others.
I Actually did something like this in a 125. Red High Fin Wolf, an L114, L160, a couple of Raphael cats, and 18 black shirt tetras with no issues. I kept the wolf fed and he left everyone alone.
I've personally kept a Silver Arowana with a Purple Wolf and Spotted Silver Dollar's and Large Ornate and medium size Lower Jaw Polypterus. The Silver Arowana unfortunately jumped out and was dead. Prior to moving the Aro to a 180 gallon it caught and ate a group of Columbian Tera that I assumed were too fast for the Arowana and I was wrong lol.
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yes well many of the members are very expeirenced and either have crazy filtration and are doing a controlled over stocking to lower aggression and even still none of the members tanks are any wear near as over stocked as the stocking you listed the ornates bichirs will get over 24" and the black wolf will get around that too and in a 18" wide tank I dont think that is fair for the fish somthing not so bendy like the wolf might not even be able to turn around and a fire eel gets over 36" so that is over half the length of the tank and more than twice the width of the tank. Im just trying to help
My opinion and my personal experience.
Opinion - 125G is definitely too small for your stocking, even if it were a bare tank. But you are filling it with nice decor etc which makes it even smaller still. Regardless of over filtering, maintenance etc... I just don't think you have the space and volume. Sorry.
Experience - I had a 110G setup as a permanent home for 18 Colombian tetra, 6 silver dollars and 3 pictus catfish. It had a silver arowana in as a temporary occupant until it outgrew. I loved this tank so much! The aro left everything alone, if it wasn't at the surface it wasn't interested. The SDs left the aro alone. The Pictus occasionally had a Colombian tetra (I would lose about 1 per fortnight) but that was it.
I hope that helps?
Opinion - 125G is definitely too small for your stocking, even if it were a bare tank. But you are filling it with nice decor etc which makes it even smaller still. Regardless of over filtering, maintenance etc... I just don't think you have the space and volume. Sorry.
Experience - I had a 110G setup as a permanent home for 18 Colombian tetra, 6 silver dollars and 3 pictus catfish. It had a silver arowana in as a temporary occupant until it outgrew. I loved this tank so much! The aro left everything alone, if it wasn't at the surface it wasn't interested. The SDs left the aro alone. The Pictus occasionally had a Colombian tetra (I would lose about 1 per fortnight) but that was it.
I hope that helps?
I’m not part of the “ your tank is too small” police, but unless you have solid plans on a much bigger tank, skip the arros
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The Arrows will stay in the 20 gallon fish store tank for now haha also deciding against the wolf fish as there might be aggression in a smaller tank with so many bottom dwellers. Sticking to the bichirs, a few butterfly fish, and might see what’s around for a nice pike cichlid. The bichirs coming in are 3-4 inches and the butterfly are 3-3.5 already.. hoping they won’t be snacks anytime soon but we’ll see. Going step by step, I’d say the teenage days of throwing the biggest thing you could find at the LFS into your 250 gallon are over, as they should be..
