Rope fish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus)

[Newt]

I'm setting up a 75 gallon tank to house a single oscar and a baseball sized apple snail.

Could I keep a rope fish with the oscar, or will one fish eat the other (worried more about the oscar eating the rope fish than vise versa.)

The oscar will be a baby (no more than 2 or 3 inches) when I buy it, and the Erpetoichthys calabaricus at my LFS currently look like big nightcrawlers, so I'm assuming they are also babies.

Thanks!

 

[bluedempsey]

i think in time the oscar will eat it
it happen to my bother

 

[beblondie]

See above -Anne

 

[Newt]

I kinda figured that would be the reply. Oh, well, no ropefish then.

I have this image in my head of a full grown oscar sucking up that ropefish like spaghetti!

 

[bluedempsey]

i have even seen them do that to bichers

 

[butane216]

what ever happened to fish that grow up together wont eat each other...... ti hink if you put teh rope fish in first, the oscar a lil while afterwards, u'd be ok... more often than not, I dont knwo that oscars will terrorize bigger fish than itself or terorize more senior tankmates....

 

[bluedempsey]

i think oscar are opportunistic eatters
they think anything that can fit in their mouths
is potential meals......

 

[iheartfishies]

I heard the same thing about RTC's though.
and mine left all this tank mates he grew up with ALONE....

at 16 inches he could of CRUSHED my 5 inch Red Zebra and many 6-7 inch S.A cichlids he lived with since he was 2 inches, but he didn't. Of course when I throw two 9 inch balas in there he DEVOURED them as soon as I turned the lights out. I guess it depends on the fish though.