Can you guys give me some recommendations for predatory fish from SA/Amazon? The tank is 800 gallons in total, currently have an oscar, a monoculus peacock bass and a silver arowana in the tank.
Predatory Fish for Amazon/South American Themed tank?
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Boullengerella maculata aka spotted Pike characin looks great but might be a bit small with an arowana in the tank, personally i love the (gymnotus) knifefish. Some species get big too
I have a rivulatus, but not a festae. I just want to find a decent sized ones, but all I've found were 2-3 inches.
Do you think 30 cm fish can be eaten by a full grown silver arowana? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the arowana's personality, I guessed.
Just for reference,
both Andinoacara rivulatus, and Mesoheros festae, (and others of both genera) are not Amazonian river species.
They both come from rivers west of the Andes, that are not exactly similar in water parameters such as pH, alkalinity and hardness to the Amazon.
And unless artificially introduced by human interventiion neither genera would be found with Amazonian species.
If one is ttrying to create a correct biotope, Mesoheros and Andinoacara are not part of the Amazonian system.
South America, has vast and varied fish habitats, that dont always geographically connect due to such barriers such as mountains, and other topagraphy.
But just don't take my word for it.
