Sickest Co-hab with a Rhom.

[DarthRhom]

First, not my tank, just a vid I saw on youtube.

Many fish get killed in traditional co-habs as well. Certainly pygo tanks. Sometimes cichlids kill each other. Sometimes a catfish eats something 8x its size. It wouldn't be considered as taboo as this video. I think the 2 months in this tank makes it a successful co-hab.

 

[Zander_The_RBP]

There's no time frame for "success" with this. Either it works as long as they're kept together or it doesn't. If it works for a year and then someone gets killed, is that considered a success? No.

Obviously, however we only really have the means to determine if a cohab was successful in hindsight, looking back at one after it has failed or has been broken up. What i should have said was that for me a cohab has to be going on for a significant length of time before i would should start calling it a "success" and obviously it's only a success as long as everything remains alive. If someone separated the fish after 2 months i wouldn't call it successful, yes it worked for 2 month but the cohab was not given enough time. It depends on the fish. Piranhas are notoriously unpredictable and can snap at the most random times, which is why it has got to go on a long time before ill consider it successful. Ultimately i do not recommend cohabing anything with serrasalmus species.

That's just IMHO.

99 times out of 100 this kind of thing ends badly for either the piranha or the other fish so it's usually not the best idea.

 

[Charney]

is that definitely a rhom vs say a black pacu? Obviously I am still not great at identifying all of these guys.

 

[jp80911]

that is a rhom and there's also a pacu in the video

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

eh, i personally don't need a year to consider it a success.....do we call pygo cohabs a failure when one gets killed? no, why do we need a multiyear time frame for rhoms and other species we should keep solo? it shouldn't have lasted beyond a few weeks theoritically speaking....

 

[jp80911]

the thing with serra is it may take sometime until it get comfortable in the tank and come out of its shell so it may tolerate other fish until then, once it gets in the comfort zone and decide to kick other fish out of its territory that's why disaster happens. it's really hard to set a standard to say what could be consider as a successful cohab, each person has different view on it. IMO the Key with this type of cohab if anyone do decide to attempt one is enjoy it while it last and always prepare for the worst.

 

[vinnyrhom]

the thing with serra is it may take sometime until it get comfortable in the tank and come out of its shell so it may tolerate other fish until then, once it gets in the comfort zone and decide to kick other fish out of its territory that's why disaster happens. it's really hard to set a standard to say what could be consider as a successful cohab, each person has different view on it. IMO the Key with this type of cohab if anyone do decide to attempt one is enjoy it while it last and always prepare for the worst.

i really like what you said "prepare for the worst" very true

 

[GreenPiranha]

Nice cohab, didnt expect this to work out for so long.

 

[JohnnyZanni]

When the fish die of old age then it's a successful cohab.. If it lasts two months, a year, ten years and then they kill each other then it wasn't successful..

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

When the fish die of old age then it's a successful cohab.. If it lasts two months, a year, ten years and then they kill each other then it wasn't successful..

that's how some people talk about it here.....not exactly my opinion but everyone thinks differently.