Restarting a Monster Comm

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Not too sure on captive Cuban size but have not read anything over 36 inches so far. Got him at 8 inches about 5 years back and once passed the 18-20 inches mark, it has been filling up instead of getting longer. There is an empty FGT waiting for any of them once passed the 36 inches length.

I suspect the wolf scraped itself thru the driftwood initially when introduced to the tank rather than being bitten - spooked I guessed. If one of the 2 Giants had gotten him, I doubt the injuries could be just surface scratches.
 
It's cool, I was just asking lol I don't know much about them, just that they're kind of rare when compared to other gars and they get bigger than trops with get to 2.5-3'. Being bitten by an aro once they don't bite to hard and knowing is hard a wolf's head is, it's plausible with the aro, now the gar on the other hand idk how hard the bite, they have fairly thin jaws which makes me assume not to hard, but they got the teeth to make up for it lol
 
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moe214 said:
It's cool, I was just asking lol I don't know much about them, just that they're kind of rare when compared to other gars and they get bigger than trops with get to 2.5-3'. Being bitten by an aro once they don't bite to hard and knowing is hard a wolf's head is, it's plausible with the aro, now the gar on the other hand idk how hard the bite, they have fairly thin jaws which makes me assume not to hard, but they got the teeth to make up for it lol
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You have valid points there also.

Still looking to further expand the tank, top on my list:

1. Dorado
2. Channa Aurantimaculata

Note: the tank has a calm temperament alpha fish (red aro) so there is a chance the above two can be added without much troubles.

Seek some feedback a from MFK members on this.
 
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moe214 said:
What's in the tank already?
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Red aro
Cuban gar
Pleuro
Mala
Common pleco

and this fella as well.

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Noted with thanks. Will monitor how well it copes in the comm; I had thoughts about removing the Oscar as well at the moment, it is fending abit too well - grabbing whatever food I am throwing inside. Out competing the others at times. LOL!
 
I was talking about with the dorado lol. Wolves aren't really bad unless messed with, gars aren't really aggressive except for the alligator gar AFAIK and the aro you said is peaceful. Idk about SH. But if you get a bad dorado, I wouldn't be surprised if he killed the Oscar.
 
Don't think you'd appreciate an Auranti to it's true value in a comm like that.
It will eventually try to kill anything that moves, and if it can't, or get fought back too hard, it'll spend the rest of his time hiding until you get bored of it and move him out, or her dies.

And to be fair, Mala, Gar and Aro could all three make a swift snack of him, they're fierce, but they're easy to tear apart (sadly, this is talking from experience, finally getting a pair out of 4 makes two of them angry monsters, I found pieces of one of them either side of the 6.5'...)

As for the Dorado, I've never tried one, because I always thought their needs were much more complicated than any other, requiring current and a whole lot of room, but I don't think the tank OR the tankmates would work, but I am no expert.

PS: I skipped the most important about the Auranti, but the rest is still valid so i'm not editting: Aurantis are Sub-tropical, if you comm them with tropical fish, they will slowly die, even if they were alone in a tank, it would still be the case (I don't think there are exceptions to that).
 
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