Predatory Fish for Amazon/South American Themed tank?
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I have never had an arowana myself so i couldnt tell you for sure, personality definitely matters, size too, i believe if the arowana been in the tank with the fish from when its young/smaller it wont see it as food even when it grows a bit.
My hujeta gars have been eating Colombia tetra's wich are quite a lot smaller but when i introduced bleeding heart tetra's wich are now about half the size as the hujeta they were cool with eachother, now when the hujeta's have grown a bit and the bleeding hearts have not grown so much theyre still cool with eachother.
But they will need enough space and hiding spots just to be sure
One of the most misunderstood concepts in aquariums and ponds, are that predators belong together.
Whether on the Savannah of Africa, where a pride of lions holds a terreritory of many square miles with thousands of wildabeast,
or in a stretch of river that covers an acre, where there are 3 cichlids to every 100 tetras, we do not find lots of predator\s together.
In a river like the one below, over the course of 3 hours of collecting.
We caught 3 omnivorous cichlids, 1 predatory Gobiomorus, 1 predatory Gar Characin , and about 50 smallish tetras (the prey for those fish eaters).
Gobiomorus above, Ctenolucius below.
Below a represenative of the many Roeboides and Astyanax tetras caughtbthat day.
And one of the 3 omnivorous Darienheros cichlids caught over the 3 hours.
And as is the case in many Central American Rivers only one representave of the Parachromis genus is found, seldom even 2.
Whether on the Savannah of Africa, where a pride of lions holds a terreritory of many square miles with thousands of wildabeast,
or in a stretch of river that covers an acre, where there are 3 cichlids to every 100 tetras, we do not find lots of predator\s together.
In a river like the one below, over the course of 3 hours of collecting.
We caught 3 omnivorous cichlids, 1 predatory Gobiomorus, 1 predatory Gar Characin , and about 50 smallish tetras (the prey for those fish eaters).
Gobiomorus above, Ctenolucius below.
Below a represenative of the many Roeboides and Astyanax tetras caughtbthat day.
And one of the 3 omnivorous Darienheros cichlids caught over the 3 hours.
And as is the case in many Central American Rivers only one representave of the Parachromis genus is found, seldom even 2.
