Thats a relatively hard question to answer. Truth is sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. What works for me might or might not work for you. My personal experience RTC's are healthy non picky eaters that will eat religiously. They are one of the fastest if not the fastest growing fishes alive. I've had one that was great with all fishes I've kept it with never hurt a fly. Swaped it out to a bigger tank for further growth and was later killed by one of my ZZcats...which are slower grows but definately more aggressive and I later found out are Loner fishes for life. Back to RTC's I bought a new one as a replacement later on and at 12" it swallowed both of my 9" PB's not at once but at different times. Which I should've learned from the first one...well lesson learned. Moved that one and house it with a smaller ZZcat and it eat my ZZcat. I thought this guys so mean maybe he can live with my bigger ZZcat so the bigger ZZcat won't be a loner. Fine for two days then came home from work 3rd day to see cloudy water and the ZZcat with a grin on it's face and the RTC floating shredded with missing pieces. That's when I knew ZZ's are loners for life. Got a new RTC and is doing great with all other fishes. Been 1yr and so far all are peaceful together. RTC housed with Jar, tiger shovelnose, 4 silver dollars, 2 dats, 1 bichir, and 2 PB's.
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my rtc eats large meals without second thought. It must be a big tankmate. Just look at the mouth, if you think your other fish probably cant fit in its mouth...your wrong. There has to be no question about it, it cannot fit in its mouth. There are plenty of options that "might" work, but it will always be a risk if it could fit. I noodled mine by accident after he tried to eat my hand...hes only 9" aggressive
My lives happily with an endi bichir and a RTCxTSN hybrid and a pleco, also CKs, similar sized gars, and pacu
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well... depends on the size of the fishes, if all your fishes are currently around the same size as stated in your sig, then probably the problem hasn't surfaced yet... you may experience RTC devouring your other tank-mates (Hopefully it doesn't) should it get bigger then the rest faster, so its hard to say at that stage, gotta wait till they're bigger~
well... depends on the size of the fishes, if all your fishes are currently around the same size as stated in your sig, then probably the problem hasn't surfaced yet... you may experience RTC devouring your other tank-mates (Hopefully it doesn't) should it get bigger then the rest faster, so its hard to say at that stage, gotta wait till they're bigger~
They've been together for a while and my combo works because RTC is smallest fish
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Anything that can't fit in its mouth... Big cichlids, tsn, big pbass, arowana, bichirs(endi), plecos, sturgeon, gator gar
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I'd say nothing really smaller than the RTC for the most part
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